timmo11
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June 11, 2011, 11:51:04 PM |
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Agree with you, this article is just ridiculous....Nothing different, and nothing worrying for bitcoins, UNLESS BTCUSD falls through 18-20$ or 10$. MtGox is quoting $14 now.... so is that worrying? Or does it have to fall through $10? From my point of view none of this is worrying at all. There may have been a price bubble but bitcoin goes on... |
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June 12, 2011, 01:11:44 AM |
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Front page of http://smh.com.au (mainstream Sydney newspaper) has a big link (about 1/4 of the front page) to an article on Silk Road (referring to bitcoin). |
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June 12, 2011, 06:26:01 PM |
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Guess this one would fit better under "Bitcoin press hits, factless journalism" Wtf 1.: One of the hottest new currency is the Bitcoin (BTC), which is a cool, online money used by Second Life users.  Wtf 2.: When Mt. Gox opened on Friday morning, the currency was worth $28.919 USD. It fell to $20.01 USD, but by the end of the day, they were back up to $24.34. It was lower than that, 10.3x before it rallied to almost 25 Wtf 3.: One major reason for the Bitcoin Black Friday could be the loss of PayPal as a payment method. The group banned transactions.... What group More fantasy journalism here: http://business.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979436523 |
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June 12, 2011, 09:03:05 PM |
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Bitcoin: the hacker currency that's taking over the web
This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 20.00 BST on Sunday 12 June 2011. A version appeared on p2 of the G2 section of the Guardian on Monday 13 June 2011.
This is by far the most high-profile story about Bitcoin in the UK so far. The Guardian is a very well respected newspaper here. |
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June 12, 2011, 09:27:03 PM |
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Bitcoin is going to be discussed at live.twit.tv, this time. I'm pretty sure. I'm going to try to correct any glaring errors.
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June 13, 2011, 01:48:03 AM |
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Can't say that nobody saw that coming. I've been reading these articles, and of course they sound utterly ridiculous to us. But when I showed the article to someone at work, they were like, "What are you involved with?" Because to anyone who doesn't understand, this makes it seem like Bitcoins are solely used to buy drugs. |
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June 13, 2011, 03:37:35 AM |
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First time senior members of the CCC publicly provide an opinion(quite positive what the technical implementation is concerned). Unfortunately only in German. |
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June 13, 2011, 06:54:07 AM |
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June 13, 2011, 12:43:21 PM |
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June 13, 2011, 04:04:04 PM |
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If you see incorrect reporting on bitcoin in an American publication you can report it here: http://www.mediabugs.org/They will open a discussion space for the news 'bug', and will try to contact the reporter or organization that made the error. Sometimes corrections will be issued. There is something similar for Canadians at http://www.regrettheerror.com/, though it looks like only the webmaster can post the errors. |
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MoonShadow
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June 13, 2011, 04:12:49 PM |
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http://www.dailytech.com/Cracking+the+Bitcoin+Digging+Into+a+131M+USD+Virtual+Currency/article21878.htmLooks like DailyTech has taken the time to actually understand the system before reporting. EDIT: Looks like I was slow on posting this one.
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"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
- Carroll Quigley, CFR member, mentor to Bill Clinton, from 'Tragedy And Hope'
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June 13, 2011, 07:01:38 PM |
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Bitcoin’s Black Friday http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/06/13/592661/bitcoins-black-friday/"The digital currency has not gone unnoticed by the City either. On Monday, this little tidbit was floating around London’s trading community — fired off by a currency trader at a leading bank: We noticed the amazing rally of the Bitcoin vs the dollar. The peer-to-peer virtual currency has risen as much as 5600% against the USD over the last year, trading from $0.5 to a little over $28 at last Thursday’s close. To put this into perspective, if we saw ‘cable’ make the same move in the next year, £1 would be worth $9,515.68 — anyone making that currency play would literally coin it in…" |
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June 13, 2011, 08:12:10 PM |
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June 13, 2011, 08:40:15 PM |
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this is the one i've been waiting for. huge. |
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