The Unbearable Tragedy of The B Word
The B Word Bitcoin conference was a travesty of discourse that failed to advance the conversation on Bitcoin as a technology in any meaningful way.“Here’s why I disagree…” Surely, those are words you’ve heard in a conversation before. Respectful, terse. An affirmation that what is to follow is to be a rebuttal, a series of words that offers some critique on what you, as a human being worthy of response, have just expressed. Sadly those words and any like them were all but absent from The B Word conference on Wednesday. Billed by Square CEO Jack Dorsey as “The Talk,” the event promised....
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We're fast approaching the end of 2013, and with that comes a ton of looking back at what made the year so special. For the Australian National Dictionary Centre, that means choosing a word of the year. And this year, that word is bitcoin. That's right. It's a word that seemingly came from nowhere. Had you asked a sample of people in January if they knew what bitcoin was, the likelihood of any of them knowing was very low. Fast forward to today, with tons of media coverage, more people are likely to have at very least a basic idea of bitcoin (even if they think it's only used for crime).....
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