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muriel_volestrangler

(106,599 posts)
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 10:24 AM Mar 2014

Text of the article attacks the Salon headline writer

The irony here, though, is that a good argument can be made that doomsayers are overstepping when they write Bitcoin off as a complete failure.


Salon headline writer: "Your dream of a Bitcoin paradise is officially dead and gone" "The apparent demasking of the currency's mysterious creator is the last nail in the coffin"

And no explanation why the 'demasking' (if it really happened at all) of the creator is the 'last nail'. The concept didn't depend on his anonymity. It wasn't a feature of it.

For an Andrew Leonard piece, this is disappointingly like something written by Maureen Dowd. Full of vague things about people's feelings and psychology, without decent analysis. He's normally better than that.

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