Who is Maria Korolov (Trombly), and why she spreads FUD?

[Gareth Nelson]

She's quite good on virtual worlds.

The theories people have about somebody paying her to discredit Bitcoin or whatever sound mildly bonkers - I'm guessing that what happened here was that she did the piece on Bitcoin on her virtual worlds blog and got a lot of attention resulting in a very decent number of pageviews for what is normally a fairly small niche, so she figured she may as well repeat the trick on another site for a wider audience.

This

There is sometimes a little too much paranoia around in this community, not all of it justified

[Elwar]

William DerBerg

[ineededausername]

A one eyed-crook with a wooden leg? 

Even in this thread, a jab at Pirate.  ....

[bg002h]

Even real expertise does not give the writer any significant foresight in assessing the consequences of innovation.

It's a paradigm shift, baby. Market forces will drive you to participate whether you understand it or not.

+2. Very insightful. Had to read it twice...I think understanding the present isn't always the best way to understand the future.

[TraderTimm]

I think the occam's razor view is she's a daft trollop who tries to write controversial articles for site traffic.