Things Need to Change in the Bitcoin Industry
January 2015 was an extremely frustrating month in regards to the Bitcoin price. A lot of people returned to earlier unsubstantiated mantras, such as “Bitcoin is a Ponzi.” This has been lessened as of late but, the skeptic attitude has not diminished at all. As investigative journalists, we come in contact with all sorts of people. Crypto enthusiasts, novices to Bitcoin, experts and professionals in digital currency, CEO’s from the leading companies in the crypto world and skeptics. In this article, I will focus in on the experiences I had in January with the skeptics. Rather than convince....
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Here's a look at what we are focusing on in the bitcoin price this morning. There are a couple of things I’m not a fan of, and both of them are change. When I sat down at my desk this morning, however, I noticed three things. One, that my cookies had mysteriously evaporated from my Chrome browser, and that everything looked and felt slightly alien as a result. Two, that one of these alien experiences was the color of my bitcoin price trading platform. Three, that I kind of like the change, and I think I’m going to give it a shot at becoming my new normal. Probably not the sort of thing our....
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Lately there has been chatter that by raising the block limit, or discussing doing so, we are opening up the gates to later have a discussion about making other major changes to Bitcoin. It's even been suggested that by letting this block size limit raise go through, we are opening the door to the possibility of a coin limit raise. Which is just ridiculous on the face. Under no circumstances could such a change be made to Bitcoin. It would be the ultimate betrayal of even an average Bitcoin holder, who believes he is holding a limited supply asset. Such a change must, therefore, never be....
Bitcoin is often likened to the Internet, and arguably for good reason. The currency is a new, permissionless technology, championed by a small group of computer experts that say it will change the world in ways we can't yet even imagine. That's just how people talked about the Internet in the early nineties. However, as with bitcoin, the hype has been accompanied by doom-mongering and naysaying. Here are seven smart and stupid things people said about the Internet that have relevance for how we think about bitcoin today. Let's start with the stupid, because, hey, they are more fun. 1)....