http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/07/bitcoin-scares-banks-governmentsThe Bitcoin phenomenon is one of the most intriguing things to have happened in cyberspace since the invention of the peer-to-peer networking that undermined the music business and enabled developments such as Wikileaks. It's an invention of a mysterious – and, to date, unidentified – programmer who called himself Satoshi Nakamoto and claimed to be a 36-year-old Japanese male. He launched Bitcoin on 3 January 2009 and disappeared entirely from the net in April 2011, saying that he was moving on to other things. A Pulitzer prize awaits the journalist who unmasks him.
Well apparently not all articles on The Guardian on Bitcoin
suck donkey balls, this happened to be an excellent read. Didn't agree with most of his conclusions though, but the writer will find that out for himself eventually.
