The Bitcoin Myths Mainstream Media Gets Wrong Every Time
The privacy issues associated with Bitcoin make it unsuitable for any illegal purpose in general. For several years now, there seem to be a lot of myths surrounding Bitcoin which need to be clarified and rectified. Several of these topics keep returning on a regular basis, showing an apparent lack of education as far as mainstream media is concerned. It is not all that hard to get some basic facts about Bitcoin right in the first place. Debunking Common Bitcoin Myths. One of the most often heard comments is how Bitcoin has a CEO or leader, which is not true. Bitcoin has a creator, who goes....
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Bitcoin has several persistent myths about it that just refuse to die. Stefan Molyneux and Erik Voorhees dispel the myths and talk about the reality of the predominant cryptocurrency. Erik Voorhees is the co-founder of Coinapult, worked as Director of Marketing at BitInstant, and was founder and partial owner of the Bitcoin gambling website SatoshiDice. Follow him on twitter at: https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees
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When it comes to bitcoin, it would be fair to say that the mainstream media does have a tendency to get things wrong. Although coverage has improved since the early days, as some journalists are beginning to take the digital currency and its underlying technology more seriously, mistakes continue to crop up. Ranging from hugely inaccurate to outrageously funny, here are some of the biggest mainstream media fails to date. 1. Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto. The mainstream press has joined the pursuit to identify Satoshi Nakamoto, the person or group of people credited with creating bitcoin. Back....
Bitcoin and the media have not always been on the best of terms. For one thing, mainstream media of the digital currency has not always been plentiful, and when the media does make time for bitcoin, it can sometimes be distorted or off the mark, or just plain short. Furthermore, the idea that bitcoin is completely anonymous and untraceable and therefore continually used in crime syndicates is also allegedly attributed to the media constantly spreading the word so, but the anonymity behind bitcoin is not entirely factual. Blockchain transactions can be traced (Ross Ulbricht and the Silk....
We've all heard them before. As a groundbreaking innovation, bitcoin naturally attracts skeptics just as strongly as it attracts supporters, and the technical and theoretical complexity of the digital currency can cause a considerable amount of confusion with those who are not 'in the know'. The result is that critics of bitcoin oftentimes fall back on one or two euphemisms to express why they think it will never succeed - simplified statements like "bitcoin is a ponzi scheme" that higlight often misunderstood characteristics of the digital currency but rarely fully address the situation.....