Bitcoin Is The World’S Most Dangerous Idea. Really?

Bitcoin, and the technology that powers it, has been called many things in the few years it has existed. Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services said the cryptocurrency created, “a virtual Wildbret West for narco-traffickers and other criminals.” Nobel Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman asked himself in one of his weekly columns for the New York Times if Bitcoin isn’t just “evil“. In the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Five reasons why Bitcoin is the most dangerous currency in the world’ they terrify right-leaning web browsers by claiming assassins around the world are murdering people for Bitcoins and that…

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