Bitcoin press hits, notable sources

[Koekiemonster]

www.anonyupload.com has been in the news a lot and already has 53000 facebook shares. Quite a lot of short bitcoinreferences in all of those articles about the site.

Eg. http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/anonyupload-faceless-group-steps-in-after-kim-dotcoms-arrest-20120124-1qewy.html

If the person behind this site actually delivers something this will influence Bitcoin.

This really looks like a scam. First they list all the reasons not to use a centralized service for uploads anymore but then goes on to say "hey, but don't worry, use us, we're going to be different." and they even say they're not a scam which makes me think all the more that they are, lol.

I completely agree, time will tell.

[casascius]

If this hasn't been posted before, there's a new Gawker article about Silk Road by Adrien Chen, the author of the previous one.

http://gawker.com/5879924/now-you-can-buy-guns-on-the-online-underground-marketplace

[genjix]

If this hasn't been posted before, there's a new Gawker article about Silk Road by Adrien Chen, the author of the previous one.

http://gawker.com/5879924/now-you-can-buy-guns-on-the-online-underground-marketplace

"Yesterday, Betabeat pointed out that Silk Road still exists..."
( http://www.betabeat.com/2012/01/26/eight-months-after-sen-chuck-schumer-blasted-bitcoin-silk-road-is-still-booming/ )

my face when betabeat gets all the credit and 72 upvotes for carbon copying my bitcoinmedia article and i got 10 upvotes on reddit :[

lame

Here's the original work http://bitcoinmedia.com/thank-you-schumer/

Bitcoin Media articles have been on Slashdot 3 times, and they have everytime linked the original article and mentioned the author's name. idk maybe I shouldn't care.

[genjix]

http://breakthruradio.com/#/post/?blog=72&post=9774

[Matthew N. Wright]

If this hasn't been posted before, there's a new Gawker article about Silk Road by Adrien Chen, the author of the previous one.

http://gawker.com/5879924/now-you-can-buy-guns-on-the-online-underground-marketplace

"Yesterday, Betabeat pointed out that Silk Road still exists..."
( http://www.betabeat.com/2012/01/26/eight-months-after-sen-chuck-schumer-blasted-bitcoin-silk-road-is-still-booming/ )

my face when betabeat gets all the credit and 72 upvotes for carbon copying my bitcoinmedia article and i got 10 upvotes on reddit :[

lame

Here's the original work http://bitcoinmedia.com/thank-you-schumer/

Bitcoin Media articles have been on Slashdot 3 times, and they have everytime linked the original article and mentioned the author's name. idk maybe I shouldn't care.

Unfortunately, this will continue so long as articles about bitcoin are only written on blogs, private websites, and forums. I truly believe the Bitcoin Magazine will change this. I dare BetaBeat to carbon-copy a Bitcoin Magazine article of yours like they do for bitcoinmedia.com's blogs. If anything, they'll quote the magazine.

[dunand]

In an important Canadian newspaper
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/27/wiki-joins-rating-game/ (search bitcoin)

[Bigpiggy01]

Forbes are running this based on the latest Gawker piece:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/30/how-technology-complicates-the-war-on-drugs-guns-and-drugs-for-sale-online/

[phatsphere]

RT/usa talks about megaupload and silkroad, mentions bitcoin 4x.

http://rt.com/usa/news/illegal-silk-road-guns-107/

[payb.tc]

Forbes are running this based on the latest Gawker piece:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/30/how-technology-complicates-the-war-on-drugs-guns-and-drugs-for-sale-online/

Getting to Silk Road is tricky. The URL seems made to be forgotten.

wow, it's rare that any mainstream news would actually post a link to SR.

(note, i edited out the link for this forum)

[molecular]

wow, it's rare that any mainstream news would actually post a link to SR.

it's obviously also rare they check the links they post. Had they done it, they would've noticed that the url changed to silkraod.......onion (link crippled due to forum rules), which is actually made to be memorized .

I'm sorry, I posted the full link to SR previously, but the forum software detected it as a "link to illegal content" and replaced it with message threatening to ban me should I try to circumvent the prevention measure, hehe. Fine with me, people will find SR if they want to. Following the link posted in the forbes piece leads to a page with the new url.

[herzmeister]

Author Interview: Paul Rosenberg on A Lodging of Wayfaring Men

This Part 1 of an interview with Paul Rosenberg, author of "A Lodging of Wayfaring Men".



Instantly named Freedom Book of The Month and a major influence in the Cyber-underground, A Lodging of Wayfaring Men is the story of freedom-seekers who create an alternative society on the Internet - a virtual society, with no possibility of oversight or control. It grows so fast that governments and "leaders" are terrified, and fight to co-opt this cyber-society before it undermines the power of the governing elite.

In this interview Paul talks about his intellectual development, his influences and the background to writing the book. He discusses the parallels between the novel and recent developments in crypto-currency, such as Bitcoin. He shares his thoughts on the current state of the internet, prospects for liberty and the potential for developing communities of people with shared values.

Podcast Episode

[paraipan]

Author Interview: Paul Rosenberg on A Lodging of Wayfaring Men

This Part 1 of an interview with Paul Rosenberg, author of "A Lodging of Wayfaring Men".



Instantly named Freedom Book of The Month and a major influence in the Cyber-underground, A Lodging of Wayfaring Men is the story of freedom-seekers who create an alternative society on the Internet - a virtual society, with no possibility of oversight or control. It grows so fast that governments and "leaders" are terrified, and fight to co-opt this cyber-society before it undermines the power of the governing elite.

In this interview Paul talks about his intellectual development, his influences and the background to writing the book. He discusses the parallels between the novel and recent developments in crypto-currency, such as Bitcoin. He shares his thoughts on the current state of the internet, prospects for liberty and the potential for developing communities of people with shared values.

Podcast Episode

free edition: http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/059017-2009-10-06-free-e-book-a-lodging-of-wayfaring-men.htm

This entire work is copyright 2007 by Paul A. Rosenberg and released
under the terms of a Creative Commons U.S. Attribution-
NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/).
Some Rights Reserved.

[osmosis]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/former-regulators-propose-a-watchdog-for-financial-watchdogs-milken-institute-review-excerpts-their-new-book-2012-01-31
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In "Bitcoin: Open source money?" Reuben Grinberg, a New York-based lawyer and computer scientist, unlocks the mysteries of the online cash that circulates without oversight from any government. "Bitcoin is a brand new digital currency whose supporters argue that it is the future of money," explains Grinberg. "Detractors call it a Ponzi scheme feeding the paranoia of conspiracy theorists, as well as a tool for terrorists, drug traffickers and child pornographers -- not to mention an economic disaster waiting to happen."
---

[osmosis]

Author Interview: Paul Rosenberg on A Lodging of Wayfaring Men

This Part 1 of an interview with Paul Rosenberg, author of "A Lodging of Wayfaring Men".



Instantly named Freedom Book of The Month and a major influence in the Cyber-underground, A Lodging of Wayfaring Men is the story of freedom-seekers who create an alternative society on the Internet - a virtual society, with no possibility of oversight or control. It grows so fast that governments and "leaders" are terrified, and fight to co-opt this cyber-society before it undermines the power of the governing elite.

In this interview Paul talks about his intellectual development, his influences and the background to writing the book. He discusses the parallels between the novel and recent developments in crypto-currency, such as Bitcoin. He shares his thoughts on the current state of the internet, prospects for liberty and the potential for developing communities of people with shared values.

Podcast Episode

The book looks great! Unfortunately in the audio interview, the author Paul Rosenberg makes a critical mistake in saying that he thinks bitcoin would be better if it was backed by something physical.  Here is the best article I know of dispelling this myth. http://libertariannews.org/2011/12/01/why-do-people-want-a-gold-standard-when-history-shows-us-it-does-not-last/

[proudhon]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/former-regulators-propose-a-watchdog-for-financial-watchdogs-milken-institute-review-excerpts-their-new-book-2012-01-31
---
In "Bitcoin: Open source money?" Reuben Grinberg, a New York-based lawyer and computer scientist, unlocks the mysteries of the online cash that circulates without oversight from any government. "Bitcoin is a brand new digital currency whose supporters argue that it is the future of money," explains Grinberg. "Detractors call it a Ponzi scheme feeding the paranoia of conspiracy theorists, as well as a tool for terrorists, drug traffickers and child pornographers -- not to mention an economic disaster waiting to happen."
---

Here's a link to the article.

[elux]

Here's a link to the article.

TY! How's this for ending on an up note:

Bitcoin is like the Web before the advent of
all the technologies that made it so useful for
non-techies. Back then, it was nearly impossible to
find anything of value on the Internet
– pioneer surfers will remember clicking through
pages and pages of irrelevant AltaVista results.
Businesses that had Web pages
did so more to seem edgy than to make sales.

Of course, the Internet eventually became
a critical part of our society and economy,
with technology making it easier to find
things, and a combination of scope and scale
increasing the value of what there was to find.
The potential of Bitcoin – more generally, of
a decentralized, self-regulating currency – is
similarly imponderable and similarly feared.
My hunch is that it will prove revolutionary.
I’m just not sure how or when.

[herzmeister]

The book looks great! Unfortunately in the audio interview, the author Paul Rosenberg makes a critical mistake in saying that he thinks bitcoin would be better if it was backed by something physical.  Here is the best article I know of dispelling this myth. http://libertariannews.org/2011/12/01/why-do-people-want-a-gold-standard-when-history-shows-us-it-does-not-last/

yap was a bit disappointed by that then too, i posted too eagerly  

[ineededausername]

Here's a link to the article.

TY! How's this for ending on an up note:

Bitcoin is like the Web before the advent of
all the technologies that made it so useful for
non-techies. Back then, it was nearly impossible to
find anything of value on the Internet
– pioneer surfers will remember clicking through
pages and pages of irrelevant AltaVista results.
Businesses that had Web pages
did so more to seem edgy than to make sales.

Of course, the Internet eventually became
a critical part of our society and economy,
with technology making it easier to find
things, and a combination of scope and scale
increasing the value of what there was to find.
The potential of Bitcoin – more generally, of
a decentralized, self-regulating currency – is
similarly imponderable and similarly feared.
My hunch is that it will prove revolutionary.
I’m just not sure how or when.

Wow:

[elux]

Wow:

Indeed, and this from the Milken Institute Review.

Milken, as in Michael Milken, famed eighties junk bond king, Forbes 500 billionaire,
white-collar criminal, risk lover, and the guy Gordon Gekko from the movie Wall Street is based on.

Jesus Balls, I found a couple of perhaps interesting quotes on his website.

"I predict three revolutions in the 21st century: the global democratization of capital; the democratization of health care to the remotest parts of the world; and nearly universal access to knowledge. Scientists say there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on our tiny planet. As these three revolutions take hold, perhaps the opportunity to contemplate such humbling facts will give our 21st-century leaders the perspective they need to leave behind the confrontational attitudes that have plagued mankind until now."

"The opening of our capital markets to people of broader backgrounds since 1980 has allowed far more individuals with a dream to test themselves in the marketplace. That has strengthened our economy, to be sure. Equally as important, it has strengthened our democracy."

"Today, in 2008, it's more important than ever that people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder feel they're part of the American dream. They need access to capital. The promise of capitalism is that you'll have that access based on your ability."

"The accessibility of capital markets has grown continuously since 1974. Businesses are not as dependent on banks, which now own less than a third of the loans they originate."

This guy could literally swallow Bitcoin in one bite.

[Boussac]

Indeed, and this from the Milken Institute Review.

Milken, as in Michael Milken, famed eighties junk bond king, Forbes 500 billionaire,
white-collar criminal, risk lover, and the guy Gordon Gekko from the movie Wall Street is based on.

To be fair, if I remember correctly, Gordon Gekko is based on a mix of caracters including Ivan Boeski, another crook of the 80s dealing in the same murky waters as Milken.
I put the quote from Ghandi in my signature in response to the pathetic "greed" speech performed by Michael Douglas in the movie..