PC World Article on Bitcoin
I think this must be the highest Alexa ranking site yet to cite bitcoin.
BTW you have a pm.
It was published right before the forum went down for a few hours haha.
Was it ? It’s certainly correlated, then. The amount of new visitors blew up the bitcoin website.
Thanks for pointing it out.
It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.
It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.
I tried to stop people from thinking that idea, but apparently words got to journalist faster than I can inform twittering users.
All that is left is to organize and mobilize some kind of defense.
MY LETTER TO THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE: ( <keir@keirthomas.com> author of goo.gl/n0UQt )
I appreciate PC World finally doing an article about the most revolutionary and amazing new technology of the 21st Century so far --- Bitcoin.
However, this really is lazy journalism.
The article implies that Bitcoin was invented as a RESULT of Wikileaks troubles… as sort of an altrernate SOLUTION to Wikileaks donation funding troubles.
That is NOT TRUE.
The truth is: Most “Bitcoin.org Forum” members want no association with Wikileaks whatsoever.
The Creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi, has even made a public plea to Wikileaks NOT to accept donations via Bitcoin.
The truth is quite the opposite from the impression that this story leaves.
Most in the Bitcoin Community do NOT want Bitcoin to be associated with Wikileaks in any way.
Bruce Wagner
New York City
+1 646-580-0022
http://bitcoinme.com
Why are we scared of association with wikileaks? I hate wikileaks and its founder, but the currency is designed to persist in the face of institutional attempts to get rid of it. And wikileaks is in the news. So I hope they DO use it. They are a perfect candidate of an organization that should use bitcoin. If your business is legal, you’re using paypal and accepting credit cards. We need to throw away this dream of bitcoin taking over paypal for the white market. I hope we get a good share of the white market, but the main usage of bitcoins will be in gray and black markets.
And whether the reader agrees with that prediction or not, there is no such thing as bad publicity in any case. This is definitely a good thing for bitcoin.
Let the public get mad about bitcoin.
Regarding the article, I do not think it misrepresents the goals of bitcoin. Its goal really is to be decentralized and unable to be taken down. It does not imply that wikileaks was the catalyst for its creation, but that it fits the bill.