Bitcoin press hits, notable sources

[julz]

First German marketplace for Bitcoins - bitcoin.de provides security for trading partners

2011-09-07

http://www.fair-news.de/news/Erster+deutscher+Marktplatz+fuer+Bitcoins+bitcoinde+bietet+Sicherheit+fuer+Handelspartner-429983.html


http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fair-news.de%2Fnews%2FErster%2Bdeutscher%2BMarktplatz%2Bfuer%2BBitcoins%2Bbitcoinde%2Bbietet%2BSicherheit%2Bfuer%2BHandelspartner-429983.html&act=url


"Buy and Sell Bitcoins was previously possible only through market places and exchanges abroad. As the first German marketplace allows users bitcoin.de especially German exchange and trade of Bitcoins."

www.bitcoin.de

[michaelsuede]

Libertarian News responds to Krugman's latest anti-bitcoin screed.

http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/09/07/questions-for-krugman-on-his-latest-bitcoin-screed/

[geek-trader]

The Atlantic Wire comments on Krugman's article and quotes users from this forum!

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/09/paul-krugman-incites-bitcoin-cyber-geek-infighting/42188/

[Boussac]

A very commandable article on blogdial in response to the moronic paper published by the Baker Institute:

http://blogdial.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/precursors-to-bitcoin-legislation-emerge/

[someotherguy]

From the Atlantic on 8-8-2011, 7:30am

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/the-bitcoin-economy-is-collapsing-with-no-sign-of-recovery/243253/

[julz]

From the Atlantic on 8-8-2011, 7:30am
...

Seriously?  That article is a month old and has already been reported here.
It's ridiculous inflammatory title has also spent more of it's fair share in the google limelight and provided a source of junk material for lazy journalists to write copycat articles.

[julz]

E-Currency and the future of anonymity

2011-09-08
Aj Sundar

http://www.studlife.com/forum/staff-columnists/2011/09/08/e-currency-and-the-future-of-anonymity/

[julz]

The Krugman story hits slashdot

Krugman On Bitcoin and the Gold Standard
20011-09-08

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/08/2134242/Krugman-On-Bitcoin-and-the-Gold-Standard

[julz]

Another reaction to the Kruger article

How Bitcoin Shows We Don't Want a Gold Standard

Sam Seder (From the Majority Report majority.fm)
20011-09-07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwJ1lh8-FBY

[julz]

Some more meta-pieces regarding the Krugman article:

Krugman takes on Bitcoin

Joshua Keating
2011-09-08

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/07/krugman_takes_on_bitcoin

Paul Krugman’s BitCoin Assessment Side-Steps the Hallucinatory Qualities of All Currencies

DJ Pangburn
2011-09-08

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/139737/paul-krugmans-bitcoin-assessment-side-steps-the-hallucinatory-qualities-of-all-currencies/

[julz]

Krugman's Bitcoin Error

2011-09-10

http://presentcynosure.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/krugmans-bitcoin-error/

"Paul Krugman, the nobel prize winning economist, is not really interested in Bitcoin. The only reason he recently wrote about the new cryptocurrency in his New York Times blog is because some people have urged him to. "

[julz]

Another idiot talks about Bitcoin as if it's history.
Opinions that something won't succeed are one thing - but Gurav Ghos is just making stuff up.
(Perhaps yet another journalist who copies from The Atlantic )

Trust and Bitcoin

Gaurav S Ghos
2011-09-12

http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/choicerules/entry/trust-and-bitcoin

"Bitcoin failed in its attempt to become a widespread medium of exchange because it was missing and always would miss a critical element that underpins any currency.  That element was trust."

[Current-C]

http://www.geeks.com/techtips/2011/bitcoins.asp

Good introductory article without any propaganda.

[payb.tc]

http://www.geeks.com/techtips/2011/bitcoins.asp

Good introductory article without any propaganda.

mostly good, but i had to pick out this particular part:

each bitcoin itself contains a record of who owned it

i assume newbies may be confused by this statement given the anonymity/privacy potential of the system.

[istar]

Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky Lab has detected 35 unique malicious programs that targeted the Bitcoin system.

http://security.cbronline.com/news/large-number-of-malware-targeted-bitcoin-in-august-kaspersky-lab-130911

[netrin]

Another idiot talks about Bitcoin as if it's history.
Opinions that something won't succeed are one thing - but Gurav Ghos is just making stuff up.
(Perhaps yet another journalist who copies from The Atlantic )

Trust and Bitcoin

Gaurav S Ghos
2011-09-12

http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/choicerules/entry/trust-and-bitcoin

"Bitcoin failed in its attempt to become a widespread medium of exchange because it was missing and always would miss a critical element that underpins any currency.  That element was trust."

It looks like Gaurav S Ghos accepts critical feedback, if anyone cares to help set the 1.3 billion Indians in the know.

[julz]

Hearing entitled “Road Map to Sound Money: A Legislative Hearing on H.R. 1098 and Restoring the Dollar”

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 2:00 PM in 2128 Rayburn HOB
Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology

http://financialservices.house.gov/Calendar/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=258253

Dr Lawrence H.White mentions Bitcoins at 21Minutes in.

So removing legal tender status from US treasury coins and Federal reserve notes more generally would simply broaden the freedom to denominate debt contracts in whatever people want, not just dollars, not just gold, but they might want silver, they might want to say the debt is only discharged by cheques or wire transfers of dollars,
or it could be silver coins, or it could be units of foreign currency, claims denominated in consumer index bundles, or wholesale commodity bundles, (ah) or it could be Bitcoins.

Discussion thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43919.0

[julz]

I was a little surprised that Australia's Computer Reseller News (which produces a magazine of the same name) would report on some internet forum being hacked.
I guess they consider Bitcoin and related incidents to be noteworthy to their readers.

BitCoin forum hacked by donor

Darren Pauli
2011-09-13

http://www.crn.com.au/News/271770,bitcoin-forum-hacked-by-donor.aspx

[julz]

Yet another Silk Road story.  The para quoted below is all there was on bitcoin.

Synthetic drug sales booming on Web

LARRY OAKES
2011-09-11

http://www.startribune.com/local/129596073.html?page=1&c=y


"Instead of credit cards -- which are routinely accepted at other sites -- Silk Road accepts only "Bitcoins," an untraceable digital currency available through online currency exchange services. Recently, the exchange rate was around $7 per Bitcoin. "

[molecular]

Just visited http://maxkeiser.com and found this video on the front page:

http://maxkeiser.com/2011/09/15/is-max-keiser-also-satoshi-nakamoto-creator-of-bitcoin-or-keiser-soze/

Havent fully watched it. There's clearly some miners active in the backround

I don't know what to make of this yet...