http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/03/10/while-media-chased-nakamoto-crypto-geeks-marveled-at-his-creation/Thought this was a good one to post here.
Marking this coming-of-age moment, the Bitcoin Foundation signed on as a conference sponsor and hosted a packed workshop Thursday to discuss research developments for bitcoin.
It was “a watershed event,” said Emir Gun Sirer, a professor at Cornell University. “We have this community of academics who have been thinking about these problems since the 1980s and suddenly here’s this actual currency that people are using. It’s exciting.”
