Gavin Andersen, lead developer of Bitcoin

Dvorak again.

http://www.groovypost.com/groovycast/x3-with-john-c-dvorak/bitcoin-dropbox-discussion/

Bitcoin Can't Be Free from the Powers That Be, Because It Rides on Rails That They Control

Wagner James Au
2011-10-27

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/10/bitcoin-cant-be-free.html

Bitcoin, the innovative virtual currency, may be a good idea for many reasons, but as it's currently conceived, it cannot really be free from corporate and state control. That's my strong belief after recently talking to Bill Maurer, Professor of Anthropology and Law at UC Irvine, whose specialty is money.
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"t's not that they could easily pull the plug on the whole thing," he tells me, "just that they could easily stop the cash-in, cash-out side of Bitcoin, and effectively stop the flow of value into the system."

17 Dot Com failures and their modern counterparts

2011-10-27
HARRISON WEBER

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/10/27/17-dot-com-failures-and-their-modern-counterparts/


Digital Currency

By now, everyone’s heard of Bitcoin, a peer to peer digital currency. From praise to criticism and security problems, there’s tons of buzz around the idea. What you may not know is that Bitcoin is a decentralized take on what Flooz (watch this commercial), Beenz and SpeedyBucks tried to accomplish 12 years earlier.

In 1999, digital currency was like a gift card without a store to back it’s value. In the end, the overall consumer reaction was “why?”

Bayesian Investor Blog
Ramblings of a somewhat libertarian stock market speculator

Bitcoin

2011-10-28

http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2011/10/28/bitcoin/

"I do think there’s a nontrivial chance that Bitcoin will become widely used as a store of value, and that might replace a significant amount of demand for gold a decade or two from now. "

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"I will probably invest a small fraction of my net worth in Bitcoin, but I don’t feel any urgency about it."