Let's Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur's Take | Wired Opinion. Bitcoin. Everybody’s talking about it. What’s true, and what’s hype? Perhaps the only thing that’s clear about Bitcoin is that it’s not going away anytime soon. Who am I to say? I’m not an economist; I’m a hacker, who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. I’m on neither “Team Bitcoin” nor “Team Global Financial System.” We do need another currency.
I’ll be blunt: Money’s gotten buggy. Bitcoin is the Internet, applied to Money. I walked into a Jamba Juice recently, and was informed in no uncertain terms that if I attempted to use anything larger than a $20 bill, or if my credit card was demagnetized, no smoothie for me. We do have credit cards. We wouldn’t get this sort of growth without pent-up demand. Bitcoin’s got its issues. Bitcoin’s no more disruptive to the dollar than the euro — but it’s still a big deal. If the dollar can coexist with the euro, an economic melding of epic scale, it can survive bitcoin. Bitcoin’s price is volatile, obviously. [A-REVOLT].org- digital anarchy. Pirates Without Borders.
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