Bitcoin press hits, notable sources

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FreeTalkLive talked about bitcoin and the silk road. http://www.freetalklive.com/

I would rather not advertise Silk Road, and frankly wish it would go away.

Eh? I haven't heard of Silk Road ripping anyone off or anything like that.

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I would rather not advertise Silk Road, and frankly wish it would go away.

Eh? I haven't heard of Silk Road ripping anyone off or anything like that.

I don't think it's a question of Silk Road ripping people off, I think (and I can't speak for jgarzik here, this is just my guess, and also partly my opinion) it's a question of attracting "the wrong attention" to bitcoin. Another poster raised the issue of "cute kitten activism". Basically, if an online service reaches the point where people are using it to post pictures of cute kittens it becomes politically tricky to shut the service down. I'm not convinced bitcoin is at that stage, yet. We need to get to a stage where "the enemy" think "yes, it enables Silk Road, but we can't shut bitcoin down because my mother and my daughter use it to X" (where "X" is something like posting cute kitty pictures). Until we get there, Silk Road is a risk. Great, yes, but still a risk.

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True. I don't see anyone buying cute kittens with Bitcoins (yet). Of course, the real key to getting Bitcoin adopted is porn. Once you can subscribe to your favorite porn site with Bitcoin, it will hit critical mass shortly afterward.

[kiba]

I don't think it's a question of Silk Road ripping people off, I think (and I can't speak for jgarzik here, this is just my guess, and also partly my opinion) it's a question of attracting "the wrong attention" to bitcoin. Another poster raised the issue of "cute kitten activism". Basically, if an online service reaches the point where people are using it to post pictures of cute kittens it becomes politically tricky to shut the service down. I'm not convinced bitcoin is at that stage, yet. We need to get to a stage where "the enemy" think "yes, it enables Silk Road, but we can't shut bitcoin down because my mother and my daughter use it to X" (where "X" is something like posting cute kitty pictures). Until we get there, Silk Road is a risk. Great, yes, but still a risk.

Make the bitcoin economy the epicenter of the public domain economy. So when try to shut down bitcoin, it will make them look like evil monopolists or corrupted.

Public domain economic activities is very much benign movement compared to "pirate parties" political operation.

[Mahkul]

True. I don't see anyone buying cute kittens with Bitcoins (yet). Of course, the real key to getting Bitcoin adopted is porn. Once you can subscribe to your favorite porn site with Bitcoin, it will hit critical mass shortly afterward.

Anyone, feel free to convince any porn website (or any other website) to accept Bitcoins and get some for yourself:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4667.0

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http://www.cio.com.au/article/380394/open_source_identity_bitcoin_technical_lead_gavin_andresen/

http://www.cio.com.au/article/380396/google_releases_open_source_bitcoin_client/

[casascius]

Techworld

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/380396/google_releases_open_source_bitcoin_client/

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Techworld

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/380396/google_releases_open_source_bitcoin_client/

Hum, do you think this is the reason for the recent surge in Wikipedia's article number of wisits?

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http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/0210207/Google-Engineer-Releases-Open-Source-Bitcoin-Client

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo

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BitcoinJ was mentioned briefly on last week’s This Week in Google (http://twit.tv/twig87), to very little fanfare.

[amwt]

http://www.taranfx.com/bitcoin-p2p-internet-currency-foreign-exchange

[kiba]

Bitcoin appears to have a habit of appearing on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2375430

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Im a fan of the EFF.
 

You're not alone, they've so far received BTC 2,340.46 on their donation address 1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt listed on https://www.eff.org/helpout

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"Proof of work" (wikipedia article): #9 on Hacker News:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386502


Article: Reached #4 on Hacker News

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386392

capture: http://www.bitcoinbulletin.com/ahh!!!!!!.png

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http://www.manzanamecanica.org/2011/03/bitcoin_dinero_digital_para_un_mundo_sin_bancos.html

http://www.404techsupport.com/2011/03/30/bitcoin-a-virtual-currency/

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http://www.manzanamecanica.org/2011/03/bitcoin_dinero_digital_para_un_mundo_sin_bancos.html

Offtipic sorry, but I must say above article (even though I read it translated by google to english), is the most complete while condensed introduction to bitcoin I've seen so far. It has everything from a general description and motivation to details like Alpaca Socks... also mentions google. Quite a piece!

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http://www.atmmarketplace.com/blog/5586/-The-BitCoin-Project

very positive mention+

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http://alt1040.com/2011/04/bitcoin-el-futuro-del-dinero-es-descentralizado

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.html

http://memeburn.com/2011/04/could-bitcoin-be-the-global-online-currency/

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Bitcoin mentioned on The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/04/how-to-start-your-own-private-currency/73327/

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Bitcoin mentioned on The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/04/how-to-start-your-own-private-currency/73327/

Awesome!  Here's the money quote:

"Anything can serve as a currency and ultimately the winners will possess the characteristics that people demand: portable, fungible, easily divisible, and reasonably scarce," said John Matonis, editor of The Monetary Future blog and an outspoken advocate for private currencies. "Coins did serve that function, but a coin cannot be jammed through a broadband connection and molecularly transported. We must evolve now."