Bitcoin's Biggest Challenge is Educational, Not Technical

Bitcoin's Biggest Challenge is Educational, Not Technical

Erik Voorhees is among the top-recognised serial entrepreneurs in Bitcoin, which he views as one of the most important inventions ever created. Erik has been at the centre of the Bitcoin movement since April 2011. He is well known for his vocal advocacy of the "separation of Money and State". It seems one of the greatest challenges facing Bitcoin is not technical, but educational. The world is having a hard time coping with its new discovery. Economist and professor Peter Morici, writing for Fox News on 3rd March, has written one of the worst bitcoin articles of the year, and it must be....


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