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More from the blogger Anthony Freeman who has written a few pro-bitcoin pieces.
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August 24, 2011, 02:16:30 AM Last edit: August 24, 2011, 02:42:23 AM by julz |
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In general I try to post blog/news items that at least appear somewhat external to what I'd call the 'bitcoin community' (or potentially have an audience that is outside it) As part of the New York Observer.. I guess betabeat fits that bill.. although perhaps Adrianne Jeffries is in danger of being drawn in a little too close. Not that bitinstant isn't an interesting development.. but I haven't quite grasped how it really changes things on a global scale. I'm not sure how it is " likely to encourage a new crop of casual traders and the Bitcoin-curious " as she states. (From Australia - I've managed to deposit funds to MtGox within 24hrs (well once anyway) - but I don't yet see how bitinstant will improve on that for me. Perhaps there are more deposit hurdles from within the US banking system.) I hope betabeat manages to maintain enough distance to avoid becoming a mere mouthpiece for bitcoin projects (interesting though they may be).. and focus on issues that are novel or also of wider appeal.
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There is a short recap of events at the end (such as Bruce's mybitcoin losses)
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Elektrischer Reporter, a professional and popular German video podcast about net culture and society now and in the future (at times ironic, exaggerated and hilarious), published a new episode about a fictional P2P cryptocurrency: http://www.elektrischer-reporter.de/phase3/video/246/In some years, traditional state economies as we know will run dry of money supply and will vanish, and the net citizens will fund projects like building an Eiffel Tower replica out of chocolate. ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) Bitcoin is mentioned to be the foundation and role model for this fictional currency, mind you. This show is also transmitted on mainstream TV by the German public federal broadcaster ZDF via its information channel.
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Was surprised to see an a full two page article in this months Linux Format Magazine (UK) titled "What on Earth is bitcoin?" This is a printed magazine.
A fanciful article that seemed balanced but ended in a sour note about the EFF not accepting bitcoins for donations.
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Was surprised to see an a full two page article in this months Linux Format Magazine (UK) titled "What on Earth is bitcoin?" This is a printed magazine.
A fanciful article that seemed balanced but ended in a sour note about the EFF not accepting bitcoins for donations.
Thanks for the hit note. Good to hear about magazine articles even if they're not available on line. Found it here but pdf available only to subscribers unsurprisingly.
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Only one mention of bitcoin - and I'm not sure bitcoin is necessarily best suited to micropayments on a large scale. (At least not in current form.. I gather some of the 'scripting' proposals may make it more suitable for this sort of thing) Credit Cards Are Killing Creativity: The Case for a New Online Payments System Michael Moore-Jones 2011-08-24 http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/08/credit-cards-are-killing-creat.php"So, what should we do to provide an alternative to the current credit card payment system? Micropayments aren't enough - we need to be talking nanopayments. There must be a ubiquitous digital payment system that gives content producers the ability to charge for their content, from amounts as small as one cent. Bitcoin is one of the key current players in this space, and the new social exchange MyCube is also working on solving this problem."
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A merchant selling bumper stickers and buttons.. for whom the volatility of bitcoin is apparently a showstopper:
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This blogger seems to think the 'main site' has been hacked - referring to bitcoin.org (did I miss something?) It's interesting how the echoes of bitcoin issues reverberate... Within the bitcoin community such issues may seem to be bumps already well behind on the road.. but to other's they're signs that the road isn't to be travelled down. It seems as though the Bitcoin has already seen its day.
EDIT: I'm really stretching 'notable' with blog posts like this.. I guess I have a slight bias towards treating this thread as something of a 'how does bitcoin look from the outside'. I'll try to keep the obscure blog reports to a minimum.. but when there's misinformation potentially worthy of some commenter attention, or an interesting angle.. well it's tempting to throw some of them in.
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Where Have All the 6970s Gone? http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/Where-Have-All-6970s-Gone" The reason for the lack of product on shelves is not one of demand. So basically bitcoin miners have not purchased every single card on the market (unlike the HD 5830, which is a favorite of the group). The problem is supply." Well that's a relief.. one less world problem that bitcoin can be blamed for!
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A Sydney radio station aired a piece on Bitcoin last night.. I've been unable to track down any info so far. Did anyone here hear it?
I forgot to ask my source if the accents were american.. it occurs to me this might just have been a rebroadcast of the npr story.
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I feel it's only a matter of time before we see the first software agents which roam the internet with their own wallet - making a living daytrading.. and sending occasional pizza offerings to their creator. Another story on the same issue..
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An opinion piece by Rick Falkvinge in Swedish technology and IT newspaper "Ny Teknik". Has quite a lot of readers, 135 comments on that article so far. http://www.nyteknik.se/asikter/debatt/article3237279.ece(It's in swedish, could probably be translated using Google Translate with decent results)
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Bitcoin mentioned in this month's Reason Magazine (October 2011) page 10:
"Busting Bitcoin. Senators target virtual currency" by Peter Suderman.
He reports on the lame attempt by some senators to try to ban the currency, and explains how a developer of bitcoin contacted by Reason's Katherine Mangu-Ward noted that "Attempting major illicit transactions with Bitcoin, given existen statistical analysis techniques deployed in the field by law enforcement, is pretty damned dumb"
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