Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things

Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things by drcode on Friday April 05, 2013 @02:21PM (#5500088)

Bitcoin DOES have a crowd-sourced monetary policy: Anyone in the "crowd" can try to create their own bitcoin clone and therefore increase the supply (though incompatible with regular bitcoins, of course)

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Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things by danielweber on Friday April 05, 2013 @03:14PM (#5500418)

Given that 99.44% of the bitcoin community thinks deflation is the most awesome thing ever, that will never happen.

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Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things by Lerc on Friday April 05, 2013 @04:41PM (#5500928)

If bitcoin were to be a major world currency the current community would become less than 1%. That might upset some. It'd be like being a old-guard redditor when all the digg people arrived.

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Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things by fnordfnordfnord on Friday April 05, 2013 @03:59PM (#5500688)

Mining information for Bitcoin and 8 competitor projects: http://dustcoin.com/mining

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Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things by drcode on Friday April 05, 2013 @05:36PM (#5501192)

It's already happened. See litecoin.

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