Press

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What's being said about Bitcoin by news sites and other media.

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==Press and notable mentions==
==Articles / Blog Posts==
=== 2011 ===
==== October====
{{Press
| source = techradar.com
| country = UK
| language = en
| title = The death of money Electronic payments are everywhere. Is it time for cash to take a hike?
| date = 2011-10-15
| link = http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/the-death-of-money-1033374
| bias = balanced
| quote1 = By 2015, cash could be looking like an endangered species.
| quote2 = So is Bitcoin the future of money, or is it only of interest to currency fans, cyber-utopians and speculators?
| screenshot = ScreenshotTechRadar201110.png
}}
{{Press
| source = The Guardian
| country = UK
| language = en
| title = Bitcoin value crashes below cost of production as broader use stutters
| date = 2011-10-18
| link = http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/18/bitcoin-value-crash-cryptocurrency
| bias = negative and stupidly wrong
| quote1 = the appreciation in value was a speculative bubble, caused by people hoarding the currency, rather than the start of a new (or parallel) economy.
| quote2 = With the value of Bitcoins dropping so low, and the computing power required to produce them growing steadily, it is becoming uneconomic to generate more except through the use of hacked computers in "botnets".
| screenshot = Screenshot_theGuardian201110.png
}}

==== July ====

{{Press
| source = PacoAhlgren.com
| country = US
| language = en
| title = Bitcoin Cannot Fail
| date = 2011-07-25
| link = http://www.pacoahlgren.com/bitcoin-cannot-fail/
| bias = angrily positive
| quote1 = They can’t make the rules. And that scares the hell out of them.
| quote2 = This may be the purest form of democracy the world has ever known, and I — for one — am thrilled to be here to watch it unfold.
| screenshot = ArticlePacoAhlgren20110725.png
}}

{{Press
| source = canada.com
| country = Canada
| language = en
| title = Bitcoins create truly democratic policy, followers say
| date = 2011-07-22
| link = http://www.canada.com/Bitcoins+create+truly+democratic+policy+followers/5144669/story.html
| bias = very positive
| quote1 = Money may be the next frontier of the Internet revolution thanks to Bitcoin, a burgeoning new digital currency.
| quote2 = ``If we remember, 15 years ago if you were doing anything on the Internet you were going to make millions,'' said Kenna. ``I think it could be the same with bitcoin.''
| screenshot = ArticleCanadaCom.png
}}

{{Press
| source = npr.org
| country = United States
| language = en
| title = The Tuesday Podcast: Bitcoin
| date = 2011-07-12
| link = http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/13/137795648/the-tuesday-podcast-bitcoin
| bias = neutral to slightly negative
| quote1 = I have to say this part of the whole Bitcoin thing for us did seem really easy. Easier than using a credit card or wiring a friend some money.
| screenshot = ArticleNPR201107.png
}}

==== June ====
{{Press
| source = The Economist
| country = GB
| language = en
| title = Bits and bob
| date = 2011-06-13
| link = http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/06/virtual-currency
| bias = neutral
| quote1 = Now, Friedman's dream has finally been realised—albeit not by a real-world central bank.
| quote2 = Most people would rather devolve this sort of responsibility to the authorities. Until this mindset changes, Bitcoin will be no rival to real-world dosh.
| screenshot = ArticleEconomistBitsAndBob.png
}}

{{Press
| source = Telepolis
| country = DE
| language = de
| title = Wenig Unterschied zu Aktien
| date = 2011-06-10
| link = http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34919/1.html
| bias = skeptical
| quote1 = Stoppt die amerikanischen Drogenpolizei DEA den Höhenflug der Bitcoin-Währung?
| quote2 = Silk Road dürfte unter anderem deshalb schwer zu schließen sein, weil Betreiber ebenso wie Benutzer durch TOR weitgehend anonym sind.
| screenshot = ArticleTelepolis20110610.png
}}

{{Press
| source = Smart Money
| country = USA
| language = en
| title = The Bitcoin Triples Again
| date = 2011-06-10
| link = http://www.smartmoney.com/invest/stocks/the-bitcoin-triples-again-1307638613180
| bias = critical
| quote1 = To recap, it's is a purely online currency with no intrinsic value; its worth is based solely on the willingness of holders and merchants to accept it in trade.
| quote2 = Readers tempted to bet on the Bitcoin should resist, not least because it's unclear whether it will have any enduring worth.
| screenshot = ArticleSmartMoneyBitcoinTriples.png
}}

==== May ====
* [http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37619 What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters] 2011-05-24 Technology Review by MIT
* [http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/05/23/052311-apps-technews-bitcoins-1-2/ Bit Players, An open source digital currency seeks to gain wider acceptance] 2011-05-23 iPad news app The Daily
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2294980 My Money Is Cooler Than Yours] 2011-05-18 Slate
* [http://launch.is/blog/l019-bitcoin-p2p-currency-the-most-dangerous-project-weve-ev.html L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen] 2011-05-15 Launch
* [http://gizmodo.com/5803518/what-is-bitcoin What Is BitCoin?] 2011-05-19 Gizmodo.com
* [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/bitcoin-inside-the-encrypted-peer-to-peer-currency.ars Bitcoin: inside the encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency] 2011-06-08 Ars Technica

==== April ====
* [http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0509/technology-psilocybin-bitcoins-gavin-andresen-crypto-currency.html Crypto Currency] 2011-04-20 Forbes Magazine
* [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks] 2011-04-16 TIME TechLand

==== March ====
* [http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/1063 Bitcoin: It's Not Too Late To Send Me Money] 2011-03-27 Ironwolf Blog
* [http://www.cio.com.au/article/380394/open_source_identity_bitcoin_technical_lead_gavin_andresen Open source identity: Bitcoin technical lead Gavin Andresen] 2011-03-21 CIO Australia
* [http://civicactions.com/blog/2011/mar/14/what_the_frack_is_bitcoin_and_can_i_use_it_with_drupal What the Frack is Bitcoin and Can I Use it with Drupal?] 2011-03-14 CivicActions
* [http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/44718/htg-explains-what-is-bitcoin HTG Explains: What Is Bitcoin, the Virtual Digital Currency?] 2011-03-01 HowToGeek.com

==== Feb ====
* [http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity] 2011-02-10 news.Slashdot.org

==== Jan ====
{{Press
| source = Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
| country = USA
| language = en
| title = Bitcoin - a Step Toward Censorship-Resistant Digital Currency
| date = 2011-01-20
| link = http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/bitcoin-step-toward-censorship-resistant
| bias = balanced to positive
| quote1 = To understand digital currency, one must first note that money in the digital age has moved from a largely anonymous system to one increasingly laden with tracking, control and regulatory overhead.
| quote2 = It's too early to say whether Bitcoin will be a success. Any new currency system faces an uphill battle, both technically and legally.
| screenshot = ArticleEFF201101.png
}}

=== 2010 ===
* [http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/interview-bitcoin.php Interview: How Bitcoin Created a Decentralized Crypto-Currency] 2010-12-29 ReadWriteWeb
* [http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/213230/could_the_wikileaks_scandal_lead_to_new_virtual_currency.html Could the Wikileaks Scandal Lead to New Virtual Currency?] 2010-12-10 PC World
* [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/1126/1224284180416.html Imagine your computer as a wallet full of Bitcoins] 2010-11-26 Irish Times

{{Press
| source = LWN
| country = USA
| language = en
| title = Bitcoin: Virtual money created by CPU cycles
| date = 2010-11-10
| link = http://lwn.net/Articles/414452/
| bias = positive
| quote1 = The bigger open questions about Bitcoin are about its viability as a currency system.
| quote2 = Bitcoin is different from electronic payment systems like Paypal that are really just computerized interfaces to traditional banks.
| screenshot = ArticleLWN2010.png
}}

{{Press
| source = Bitcoin Blogger
| country = ?
| language = en
| title = Bitcoin Electronic Currency: The Future of Money
| date = 2010-09-30
| link = http://www.bitcoinblogger.com/2010/09/bitcoin-electronic-currency-future-of.html
| bias = positive
| quote1 =
| quote2 =
| screenshot = ArticleBitcoinBlogger2010.png
}}

{{Press
| source = /.
| country = USA
| language = en
| title = Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3
| date = 2010-07-11
| link = http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03
| bias = neutral
| quote1 =
| quote2 =
| screenshot = ArticleSlashDot2010.png
}}

===Podcasts / Video===
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZAFGRrp_kc Free Talk Live - interview with Roger Ver] 2011-11-19 An hour-long interview with Roger Ver of Memorydealers.com
* [http://surprisinglyfree.com/2012/01/31/reuben-grinberg Reuben Grinberg on the legality of Bitcoin] 2011-01-31 ([http://surprisinglyfree.com/wp-content/uploads/SFC-101-122701.mp3 mp3])
* [http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/12/137795648 NPR Planet Money - The Tuesday Podcast: Bitcoin] 2011-07-12 ([http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/specials/2011/07/20110712_specials_pmoney.mp3?dl=1 mp3])
* [http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/215 Linux Outlaws 215 - Bitcoins] 2011-06-30 ([http://traffic.libsyn.com/linuxoutlaws/linuxoutlaws215.mp3 mp3], [http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/ogg/215 ogg])
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYiWHNkZIes CBS / What’s Trending - Bitcoin: The Future Of Money] 2011-06-08 Shira Lazar interviews Bitcoin [[Developers|developer]] Jeff Garzik.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcn8cNCk9hM The World's First Bitcoin Road Trip] 2011-05-30 An interview with The Real Plato on the Corbett Report.
* [http://www.npr.org/2011/05/24/136620231/what-are-bitcoins What Are Bitcoins?] 2011-05-24 NPR All Things Considered ([http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2011/05/20110524_atc_08.mp3?dl=1 mp3])
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=TwNfBgwbqng TWIST #140] 2011-05-10 This Week In Startups interviews Gavin Andresen and Britcoin's Amir Taaki
* [http://agoristradio.com/?p=112 Cypherpunkd Episode 005: "Bitcoin Mania" Part 1 - mids] 2011-04-06 Podcast interview of mids, from AgoristRadio.com ([http://library.agoristradio.com/library/cypherpunkd/cypherpunkd-EP005.mp3 mp3])
* [http://vimeo.com/22072121 Bitcoin at EPCA] 2011-04-04 Video of Genjix's presentation on Bitcoin at EPCA conference. ([http://www.dyndy.net/2011/04/bitcoin-presented-to-the-old-world followup])
* [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.html Andresen on BitCoin and Virtual Currency] 2011-04-04 EconTalk's Russell Roberts interview Bitcoin lead Gavin Andresen ([http://files.libertyfund.org/econtalk/y2011/Andresenbitcoin.mp3 mp3], [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.html#highlights transcript])
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo What is Bitcoin?] video introduction ([http://c2995102.r2.cf0.rackcdn.com/What_is_Bitcoin_hd.mp4 mp4])
* [http://omegataupodcast.net/2011/03/59-bitcoin-a-digital-decentralized-currency Bitcoin – a Digital, Decentralized Currency] 2011-03-18 omega tau interviews Bitcoin technical lead [[User:gavinandresen|Gavin Andresen]] ([http://traffic.libsyn.com/omegataupodcast/omegatau-59-bitcoin.mp3 podcast])
* [http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2011/02/spark-139-february-27-march-2-2011 Spark 139] 2011-02-27 CBC Radio covers Bitcoin. A nice non-technical overview ([http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/spark_20110227_45926.mp3 podcast])
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCzsCmhkjMM Security Now 288: Q&A] 2011-02-16 Bitcoin coverage is from 0:44:00 to about 1:13 of the podcast ([http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/aolradio.podcast.aol.com/sn/sn0288.mp3 podcast]),([http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0288/sn0288_h264b_864x480_500.mp4 video])
* [http://blip.tv/file/4771178 Ignite Amherst] 2011-02-15 Presentation by Bitcoin Principal [[User:Gavinandresen|Gavin Andresen]] ([http://www.skypaint.com/bitcoin/GavinIgniteTalk.pdf Slides])
* [http://ignite-dc.blip.tv/file/4801077 Ignite D.C. 6] 2011-02-03 Presentation by [[User:Dduane|Darrell Duane]] ([http://bitcoinbasics.com/ignitedc Slides]) About Bitcoin and Potomac local currency
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQPSwA2Itbs Security Now 287: BitCoin CryptoCurrency] 2011-02-09 Bitcoin coverage is from 0:41:25 to the end of the netcast ([http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0288/sn0288_h264b_864x480_500.mp4 video]), ([http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/aolradio.podcast.aol.com/sn/sn0287.mp3 podcast])

===Presentations===
* [http://www.slideshare.net/ashmoran/the-barcampers-guide-to-bitcoin-8682810 The BarCamper's Guide to Bitcoin] 2011-07-25 by Ash Moran
* [http://s3.amazonaws.com/gavinandresen-bitcoin/GavinAndresenCIATalk.pdf Bitcoin - The World's 1st P2P Digital Currency] 2011-06-?? Gavin Andresen Presentation given at In-Q-Tel investment conference
* [http://btcbids.com/bitcoin.pdf Bitcoin - P2P Virtual Currency] 2011-06-05 Jake Hansen Presentation submission for Defcon 19<ref>[https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12416.0 Forum I Need help]</ref>
* [http://www.slideshare.net/jonmatonis/monetising-game-play-on-social-network-sites Monetising Game Play on Social Network Sites] 2011-03-31 Jon Matonis at KPMG eGaming Summit
* [http://prezi.com/tbpky5fm7qbl/bitcoin-new-p2p-currency Bitcoin - new P2P currency] 2011-02-19 Juraj Bednar

==See Also==

* [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1958.0 Bitcoin Press] forum thread
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* [[Bitcoin News]] daily posts
* [[Research]]

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