Bitcoin in the Headlines: Child Porn and Price Disregarded
Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly look at bitcoin news, analysing media and its impact. Whilst last week's reporting was heavily US-focused, the coverage this week was more far reaching, with outlets from India and Russia mentioning bitcoin - even if in a negative light. Indeed the biggest lightning rod of interest this week was perhaps bitcoin's alleged propensity for enabling illicit activities, with the use of the payment method in online child pornography transactions capturing the lion's share of the media's headlines. Interestingly this focus, however, did deflect from other....
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