2013-11-23 WSJ: Should You Invest in Bitcoin

[neutrinox]

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304607104579212101356897382

TL;DR:
Yes, but only a little and treat it as long term speculative investment.

[n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU]

Check out the article in the print edition!

[BitChick]

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304607104579212101356897382

TL;DR:
Yes, but only a little and treat it as long term speculative investment.

Well, a "little" for some guys on Wall Street could be a huge amount to some of us! 

[neutrinox]

@n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU
Wow, nice article! Thanks!

@Bitchick
Indeed!

[LiteCoinGuy]

mind-stift. this is all i say ;-)

12 month ago it was silk road money

6 month ago it was maybe a nice experiment but stay away, its shady stuff

now they say: YOU CAN INVEST a little  

in the future...

[blacksails]

mind-stift. this is all i say ;-)

12 month ago it was silk road money

6 month ago it was maybe a nice experiment but stay away, its shady stuff

now they say: YOU CAN INVEST a little  

in the future...

…BUY BUY BUY!!!!!!

To the moon!!

[kjlimo]

Tldr: spoiler alert, the answer is YES!  Hahah

Woot!

Perhaps I will buy one of those trips to space... hahah

[Cubic Earth]

It's sad they have done such a disservice to their readers.  The article's mostly-good investing logic would have been just as applicable a year or two ago.  I guess there was just too much intellectual laziness and other mental fog floating around the WSJ for anyone to bother to look at what bitcoin really is.

 The readership is lucky, however, that the WSJ figured it out while the coins are still cheap.

edited for bad grammar

[LiteCoinGuy]

It's sad they have done such a disservice to their readers.  The article's mostly-good investing logic would have been just as applicable a year or two ago.  I guess their was just too much intellectual laziness and other mental fog floating around the WSJ for anyone to bother to look at what bitcoin really is.

 The readership is lucky, however, that the WSJ figured it out while the coins are still cheap.

agree here. i like the phrase " intellectual laziness ".

[BTCLuke]

Man o man, that was the WSJ!

2014 will surely be the year that all the Wall Street traders join this forum and flood us all out of here.

[TraderTimm]

The mainstream financial press won't be screaming "BUY BUY BUY" until their traps are set and ready to fleece the unwary. Once Bitcoin reaches the stage of "financial engineering", you'll see some rather scammy products oriented around Bitcoin valuation. The only benefit however, is that they can't arbitrarily dilute Bitcoin itself, only the paper they put on top of it.

I bet it is coming, and not just the Winklevoss effort or the existing Bitcoin investment funds.