Gawker bashes Disney and Bitcoin

Gawker bashes Disney and Bitcoin

The popular website Gawker has an article, published yesterday, about the Disney World Coins in the Kingdom Bitcoin Conference on October 4 and 5. Not very timely, but the article titled "Magical Thinking: Bitcoin Gathers at Disney" seems to follow a political agenda, so I guess timeliness isn't important. Also read: Bitcoin Wedding: Marriage on the Blockchain. The author, Sam Biddle, is no friend of Disney: "[T]here was the emptiness of this [aging] vision of the future: the sprawl of dangerous intersections, poorly laid walkways, and artificial lakes. The hotel did not offer, and never....


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