Bitcoin press hits, notable sources

[julz]

I'm not familiar with this French site.. but it appears to be a magazine 'Digital Age'

Bitcoin: currency peer to peer

Benoit Dupont
2011-12-23

http://erenumerique.fr/bitcoin_la_monnaie_peer_to_peer-article-1877-1.html


http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ferenumerique.fr%2Fbitcoin_la_monnaie_peer_to_peer-article-1877-1.html&act=url

"We met Amir Taake, founder of Bitcoinconsultancy.com developer support tools and trading system around the Bitcoin "

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[genjix]

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!

[ineededausername]

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

[bbit]

^^this^^

[gnar1ta$]

http://www.citizeneconomists.com/blogs/2011/12/20/solid-bitcoin-consolidation-finally-bears-a-bitcoin-breakout/

Was this posted yet?

[julz]

http://www.citizeneconomists.com/blogs/2011/12/20/solid-bitcoin-consolidation-finally-bears-a-bitcoin-breakout/

Was this posted yet?

The article was reported.. but under a different url:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1958.msg656195;topicseen#msg656195

[julz]

Just another slashdotting.

The Bitcoin Srikes Back

2011-12-24

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/24/2023223/the-bitcoin-strikes-back

[julz]

Bitcoins: A Decentralized Digital Currency?
A possible alternative to our growing financial crisis

2011-12-25
Katherine Thorsteinson

http://www.arbitragemagazine.com/topics/finance/bitcoins-decentralized-digital-currency/


"Considering how drastically different Bitcoins are from our current system, it is unlikely for the moment that this ‘change’ is going to come."

[julz]

Deposit Cash at Bank of America and Get Bitcoin, Thanks to BitInstant and TrustCash

Adrianne Jeffries
2011-12-26

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/26/deposit-cash-at-bank-of-america-and-get-bitcoin-thanks-to-bitinstant-and-trustcash/

[julz]

German magazine De:Bug

Conclusion 2011: Bitcoin
Digital Currency

2011-12-27

http://de-bug.de/mag/8758.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%2Fde-bug.de%2Fmag%2F8758.html&act=url

[jimbobway]

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/

[LightRider]

Film maker Kevin Smith just tweeted about bitcoins to his ~2 million followers.

https://twitter.com/#!/ThatKevinSmith/status/151995093505679362

Via @Dirgeinferno420 "your opinion on bitcoins" So long as they're not used to traffic humans or create victimization of any kind? I dig it.

[defxor]

There will be two talks, both in English, on Bitcoin at the 28th Chaos Computing Congress tomorrow (day three out of four). The talks are streamed live at http://28c3.fem-net.de/.

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/day_2011-12-29.en.html

[LightRider]

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html

Bitcoin 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.

[julz]

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"

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"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."

[genjix]

brilliant! I love seeing all these old school hackers come out of the woodwork.

[julz]

Bitcoin – An Analysis

Erik Tews
2011-12-29

http://cryptanalysis.eu/blog/2011/12/29/bitcoin-an-analysis/


Kay Hamacher and Stefan Katzenbeisser presented their analysis of Bitcoin at 28C3.

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlWyTqL1hFA

[LightRider]

Bitcoin – An Analysis

Erik Tews
2011-12-29

http://cryptanalysis.eu/blog/2011/12/29/bitcoin-an-analysis/


Kay Hamacher and Stefan Katzenbeisser presented their analysis of Bitcoin at 28C3.

prerelease video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJN0Hm3srUc

I'm sad that the audience didn't point out the absurdity of some of their ideas and claims.

[Gavin Andresen]

The Bitcoin price ($4) was the NPR Planet Money podcast's indicator for their Tuesday, Dec 27 episode:
  http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/12/27/144323325/the-friday-podcast-the-rest-of-the-story

[julz]

Along with things such as email and facebook,  Bitcoin is listed as one of 100 things that 'supposedly' died in 2011.

Texting, the Cloud, and John Mayer Jokes: 100 Things That Died in 2011
Tech things people (mostly tech bloggers) have declared dead in 2011.

Adrianne Jeffries
2011-12-27

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/27/100-things-died-2011-tech-blog/