Bitcoin in the Headlines: Financial Times Ruffles Feathers
Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly analysis of industry media coverage and its impact. Boring weeks in bitcoinland are far and few between. Last week's headlines - predominately dominated by the digital currency's dizzying price spike - gave way to a different form of narrative as journalists from the mainstream media sought to discern its meaning and implications. In so doing, the coverage arguably shifted from largely positive articles to more controversial explorations of bitcoin that were sometimes found to be at odds with common consensus among the technology's observers. The....
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