Blockchain is a disruption we simply have to embrace (Big ETH mention in Canada's most respected paper)
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theglobeandmail.comPosted May 9, 2016, 9:42 PM UTC
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theglobeandmail.comMy favourite from the comments:
upanddown2 4 hours ago
If something can be fiddled to someone's advantage, it will be fiddled. Period. If nobody knows for sure what "it" is, or where "it" resides (if anywhere) or who ultimately controls "it" (if anyone), do you think maybe "it" might be ripe for fiddling?
Gee, I dunno. Duh. Maybe, I guess.
For all or anyone else knows, a key component of "it" might reside on a server in some Russian emigre's basement somewhere. Of course, al-queda or some similar organization could never, ever figure out how to mess with such a system, could they?
Mostly what I got out of this article was someone shilling for a giant, sophisticated money laundering set-up.
You heard it here first people, a key component of bitcoin might reside on a server in some Russians basement, terrifying!!
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That sounds like a paid government shill. They're all over the internet in comment sections, forums, and social media and very cheap to hire out of India, Pakistan, and Bangaldesh.
Both Trump and Clinton spent a lot of money "massaging" public media via paid shills on social media.
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That actually just sounds like the kind of crap people say on the internet. Why would anyone pay for seeing more of that?
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Governments aren't spending money they earned so they're happy to spend the stolen money on all kinds of idiocy. Unfortunately "opinion shaping" on the Internet is one of those things.
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I don't doubt it in the slightest.
I've seen anti-Bitcoin posts in r/buttcoin that certainly took days or weeks to research and write, as if some of them were no being paid for it.
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I filled it under incoherent drunken babble. Clearly this person doesn't understand what they are talking about, but instead of exert ting the mental resources to understand blockchain, they took the much more immediately gratifying route of angrily attacking it. Drunk people do this all the time and your best response is to flatly ignore them.
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Did you take a look at the comments though? People are hostile.
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Those comments are indeed quite hostile. They also show a complete lack of understanding (fear) of blockchain technology.
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Yes, but so does the general populace.
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I bet it's the same 8 ill tempered cranks commenting on every article, all of them over 55.
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The only people that comment on mainstream news sites are people of Donald Trumps generation. Basically explains it all.
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Canadian checking in. Respected? Eh maybe, There's also The National Post and to some degree the Toronto Star. Each one has a leaning to a particular party, but together they're a decent source.
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Hats off to the Tapscotts, gentlemen. Working hard to promote their new book, and ethereum at the same time. McLovin it!
was at their book launch last week, they said "Ethereum is Canada's best tech story in 10 years"
Nicely said. Ehereum will runover Bitcoin and it will be the World' best tech story, not only Canada's.
Yeah, but, I mean, Canadians will assume their rightful place as rulers of all mankind, right?