2012-12-28 BitcoinMagazine.com - Common Misconceptions About Bitcoin – A Guide

[Stephen Gornick]

Common Misconceptions About Bitcoin – A Guide for Journalists
by Vitalik Buterin

Here are two of the five:

The Bitcoin price did NOT fall to $0.01 in June 2011. [...] The root cause was a security mishap at a third party service.  Aside from the attacker, no human being was, at any point, willing to sell bitcoins at anything close to $0.01.

Bitcoin is NOT (yet) seeing massive growth in usage to evade trade sanctions in Iran. [...] The media took a single story of an Iranian earning bitcoins by selling music on CoinDL and wrongly extrapolated to a story about Iranians switching to Bitcoin en masse.

 - http://bitcoinmagazine.com/common-misconceptions-about-bitcoin-a-guide-for-journalists/

[World]

nice article

[Akka]

Thank you very much for this article.

Finally a summery of al the common Bulls*** where you can point to in the comments of articles.

[DanielBTC]

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=138822.msg1480982  portuguese translation

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=138835.new  spanish translation