I think if you look at the purchases they make that aren't that well advertised, we're probably both underestimating.

So the pools would 51% and fork the network to double-spend a few coins, everyone would shutdown bitcoin payments for a few hours (as happened during the March 2013 fork), and the individuals that make up the affected pools would quickly point their miners elsewhere. p2pool would probably gain a huge share of that.

While it be a severe short/medium term blow to confidence in bitcoin, it wouldn't kill it, and would ultimately make the network stronger since people would be jumping to more distributed mining solutions like p2pool.

I think the pool attack concerns are largely blown out of proportion. Killing bitcoin really requires successfully attacking the crypto.

Love it.

Note how they still feel like that have to maintain the skeptical face and skeptical chuckles at the end... It's still very early.

Love the chuckles haha... the feeble minded will always look on things they cannot comprehend ignorantly.. until it slaps them in the face and say told you so!

BITCOIN ERECT (UP)

To da moon!

LOL. Very entertaining. Yes, they are the ultimate followers. Don't expect wisdom or prescience from TV news heads. They have no idea what is really going on. But the fact that we are on CNBC and Bloomberg at all is still a little amazing to me. 

Indeed. I think back to 2011 when it was really sort of a ridiculous contrast understanding what bitcoin could become, and seeing the present state of things. Having bitcoin discussed in *any* mainstream outlet, much less major financial news networks, just seemed so far off...

Its been one of my bellweather markers on the way to mainstream.
When bloomberg (or cnbc) put bitcoin exchange prices on their TV ticker.
There is increasing talk on these news, so often dismissal outright, and occasional visionary optimist. (Hi @mattmiller1973, Bloomberg is lucky to have you.) At least they are talking.

One can only be dismissive for so long until it becomes evident that it just isn't going away.

Bitcoin is not money, and not accepted

Gold accept, black and white and yellow people, bitcoin nobody.