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I'm not familiar with this French site.. but it appears to be a magazine 'Digital Age'
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i was going to write a retort to this article, but the whole thing was so ludicrous i couldn't think how to respond http://www.kernelmag.com/yiannopoulos/2011/12/the-online-currency-wars-are-coming/"Since Bitcoin has no central repository it’s more like digital cash, used to exchange value anonymously. Critics ask how long that anonymity will last." what the hell does that mean. "Think of the entire internet as an app, circumscribed by a persistent Facebook login and punctuated with Pay icons" No.. that's just stupid. "Bitcoin and Ven haven’t even scratched the surface of what’s possible with online payments. With a ready user base of 800 million users, Facebook may be about to change the way online financial transactions are thought about and conducted. " yeah right. bitcoin underlying protocol can do shit we havent even dreamed or ever thought possible. sky is the limit!
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i was going to write a retort to this article, but the whole thing was so ludicrous i couldn't think how to respond http://www.kernelmag.com/yiannopoulos/2011/12/the-online-currency-wars-are-coming/"Since Bitcoin has no central repository it’s more like digital cash, used to exchange value anonymously. Critics ask how long that anonymity will last." what the hell does that mean. "Think of the entire internet as an app, circumscribed by a persistent Facebook login and punctuated with Pay icons" No.. that's just stupid. "Bitcoin and Ven haven’t even scratched the surface of what’s possible with online payments. With a ready user base of 800 million users, Facebook may be about to change the way online financial transactions are thought about and conducted. " yeah right. bitcoin underlying protocol can do shit we havent even dreamed or ever thought possible. sky is the limit! The idiocy in that article is overwhelming! It basically said: Online currencies from good to bad: 1. Facebook credits! Give 30% of your money to Facebook for a DB update and make your spending habits public! 2. Ven: the establishment loves it 3. Bitcoin. It sucks because ![Huh](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/huh.gif)
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December 24, 2011, 07:01:51 PM |
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^^this^^
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December 25, 2011, 01:02:31 AM |
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Losing hundreds of Bitcoins with the best scammers in the business - BFL, Avalon, KNC, HashFast.
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December 25, 2011, 07:52:59 AM |
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Just another slashdotting.
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i was going to write a retort to this article, but the whole thing was so ludicrous i couldn't think how to respond http://www.kernelmag.com/yiannopoulos/2011/12/the-online-currency-wars-are-coming/"Since Bitcoin has no central repository it’s more like digital cash, used to exchange value anonymously. Critics ask how long that anonymity will last." what the hell does that mean. "Think of the entire internet as an app, circumscribed by a persistent Facebook login and punctuated with Pay icons" No.. that's just stupid. "Bitcoin and Ven haven’t even scratched the surface of what’s possible with online payments. With a ready user base of 800 million users, Facebook may be about to change the way online financial transactions are thought about and conducted. " yeah right. bitcoin underlying protocol can do shit we havent even dreamed or ever thought possible. sky is the limit! If someone started a blog dedicated to ripping into the media's ignorance on bitcoin I would read it everyday. Maybe I should start ripping into this poorly written article on my own blog. Anyways, in keeping up with the spirit of this thread here is another link: http://www.arbitragemagazine.com/topics/finance/bitcoins-decentralized-digital-currency/
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December 28, 2011, 02:32:13 PM |
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Film maker Kevin Smith just tweeted about bitcoins to his ~2 million followers. https://twitter.com/#!/ThatKevinSmith/status/151995093505679362Via @Dirgeinferno420 "your opinion on bitcoins" So long as they're not used to traffic humans or create victimization of any kind? I dig it.
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December 28, 2011, 08:15:35 PM |
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http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.htmlBitcoin mentioned in one of the later questions of the keynote. I don't think that the thing that they most fear is bitcoin...Bitcoin is not the major disruptive application of the internet over the last several years.
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December 29, 2011, 10:55:13 AM |
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Just one mention of Bitcoin - but in this article, Nathaniel Borenstein (a co-creator of the MIME email standard) sees a bright future for some sort of 'alternative' internet payment system. Alternative Online Payments: The Dream That Refuses to Die Nathaniel Borenstein 2011-12-29 http://www.xconomy.com/detroit/2011/12/29/alternative-online-payment-systems-the-dream-that-refuses-to-die/"From Digicash to Cybercash to BitCoin, there have been plenty of demonstrations of the technical feasability of alternative Internet payment mechanisms" ... "A cynic might say that, because of the power of the banks and card associations, such an infrastructure will never come to be. I’m a bit more optimistic; I think the powers that be will continue to resist any attempt to open up the world of payments, but they’re unlikely to succeed forever. At some point, the combination of a clever new payment system and a market niche that needs it will be so useful that the world won’t let it die. And then, “suddenly”—after decades of waiting—we’ll see people sending money by email, new institutions floating their own currencies, and micropayments enabling sub-penny transactions that accumulate to form the basis of whole new industries."
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December 29, 2011, 10:56:08 AM |
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brilliant! I love seeing all these old school hackers come out of the woodwork.
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December 29, 2011, 06:02:02 PM |
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I'm sad that the audience didn't point out the absurdity of some of their ideas and claims.
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December 30, 2011, 02:52:28 AM |
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Along with things such as email and facebook, Bitcoin is listed as one of 100 things that 'supposedly' died in 2011.
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