Meerkat Star Suzanne Nguyen: Dreams of Bitcoin and Fried Chicken
Suzanne Nguyen is a bright and off-the-cuff young woman who makes videos of herself several times per week. She streams using an app called Meerkat on her smartphone, and her streams are so popular that she’s been dubbed a “power user.” Streaming was just a fun hobby for Suzanne until she received monetary profit in the form of a Bitcoin tip. Now,....
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Bitcoin in the Headlines is our weekly look at bitcoin news, analysing media and its impact. It's the classic philosopher's dilemma, the chicken and egg. Which came first? And how do you make sense of being stuck in that unknowing middle? For the media and the general public, debates in the bitcoin space are often muddled in the same confusion - 'Can you have the blockchain without bitcoin?' 'Is the protocol safe even if bitcoin businesses are not?' and 'Who made this thing anyway and why can't we ask them?'. Such is the struggle of making sense of a technology that seems to have emerged....