Bitcoin press hits, notable sources

[DonnyCMU]

Google News Front Page!!!  

I don't know about how it's showing up in where you live, but here, on news.google.com , a Bitcoin news just made the front page!

The article is from TheTechHerald:

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201124/7283/Malware-targeting-Bitcoins-suspected-in-recent-theft

However, it's mainly about Allinvein's theft though.

[Nescio]

Well, they say any publicity is good publicity. It might attract a lot of people who get curious about it, obviously this cannot be held against the idea behind the technology and most people will hopefully recognize that.

[allinvain]

How ironic..my misfortune is promoting bitcoin.....

[TraderTimm]

How ironic..my misfortune is promoting bitcoin.....

Just for proper [Citation Needed] credit when the google-bot archives this:

Hi, I'm allinvain, you might know me from a heist that took place when I had little to no personal security. That's right, my failure to consider my situation resulted in the loss of some bitcoins. Don't be like me, take the proper precautions with your wallet.

Learnin' on a wish (tm)

[FatherMcGruder]

Just for proper [Citation Needed] credit when the google-bot archives this:

Hi, I'm allinvain, you might know me from a heist that took place when I had little to no personal security. That's right, my failure to consider my situation resulted in the loss of some bitcoins. Don't be like me, take the proper precautions with your wallet.

Learnin' on a wish (tm)

Blame the victim much?

[sirk390]

Ther's an article in "Le Monde":
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2011/06/17/bitcoin-les-deux-faces-de-la-monnaie-virtuelle_1537285_651865.html
This is a huge french newspaper.

[grondilu]

Ther's an article in "Le Monde":
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2011/06/17/bitcoin-les-deux-faces-de-la-monnaie-virtuelle_1537285_651865.html
This is a huge french newspaper.

Yes, as a french person I can confirm that "Le Monde" is the most important newspaper in France.  I'll check the paper edition in case there is something.

[Crs]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/230535/symantec_uncovers_bitcoinstealing_trojan.html

[Bimmerhead]

Fortune online:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/17/the-clock-is-ticking-on-bitcoin/

Dwolla is the most popular client?

When one views the level of accuracy in these articles it demonstrates how you really can't trust the media to give you right reporting on  anything.

[oneforall]

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/06/new-malware-steals-your-bitcoin.ars

linked to from www.sensibleerection.com

[tymothy]

Fortune online:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/17/the-clock-is-ticking-on-bitcoin/

Dwolla is the most popular client?

When one views the level of accuracy in these articles it demonstrates how you really can't trust the media to give you right reporting on  anything.

It's a pretty reasonable article. Almost anything short of a peer-reviewed journal article is going to be laden with a few inaccuracies or minor misrepresentations.

[Mahkul]

Bitcoin was briefly described on Polish news:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8zsGVuD3qM

Polsat is a very popular Polish TV station. The news is pretty positive overall, their only concern is that it may be a speculative bubble at the moment and also, that there are very few places (in Poland) accepting Bitcoin.

[FreddyFender]

Fortune online:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/17/the-clock-is-ticking-on-bitcoin/

Dwolla is the most popular client?

When one views the level of accuracy in these articles it demonstrates how you really can't trust the media to give you right reporting on  anything.

It would be fun to see if certain media outlets received marching orders from their bosses or if internal emails are available to shed light on a consistent theme among the latest spat of fluff reporting. Are they seeing Bitcoin as such an insignificant item or is this concerted with no attempt to backup inconsistent facts that these articles are relaying? Let's look back on previous articles by all the reporting for continuity and factual basis on previous subject matter. Only about 108 articles this past week... anybody got a lifetime to lend? HAHAHA.
Bahbra is gonna be rich someday.

[casey_bowman]

Annie Lowrey of Slate and Katherine Mangu-Ward of Reason discuss Bitcoin on bloggingheads.tv

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/36821?in=18:11&out=29:47

[BrightAnarchist]

Bitcoins: Currency of the Geeks

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_26/b4234041554873.htm

[Nescio]

Another Slashdot mention:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/141228/Trojan-Goes-After-Bitcoins

Linked from there, Symantec on whether it's worth for botnets to CPU mine (they say no but the numbers say yes, at current difficulty certainly):
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/bitcoin-botnet-mining

http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1752 (also about the trojan)
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/all-your-bitcoins-are-ours (seen this in other topic too)

[molecular]

this is quite big: German TV, most popular news programme, night edition:

http://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/bitcoins100.html

quite balanced report, gladly: nothing about mining, nothing about drugs.

[Gandlaf]

Looks like Bitcoin will likely be the only real value conserving investment left:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/trading-over-counter-gold-and-silver-be-illegal-beginning-july-15

[Litt]

Looks like Bitcoin will likely be the only real value conserving investment left:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/trading-over-counter-gold-and-silver-be-illegal-beginning-july-15

Yeah I've already received tweets about that and forex.com enforcing it in the recent future. The gov is getting creative now giving relief to the bankers yet another way from the pockets of the common citizens. Boy am I glad that Bitcoin exists to give everyone another way out as long as we can work together.

[ryepdx]

Looks like Bitcoin will likely be the only real value conserving investment left:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/trading-over-counter-gold-and-silver-be-illegal-beginning-july-15

I did some research into the claims made by that article. If you read the actual text of the act, it only outlaws the trading of commodities on margin by unlicensed brokers. That's a far cry from the headline's claim. This won't affect most of us, it seems, and it certainly won't affect the gold and silver bugs with their vaults full of precious metals.