Ed and Ethan’s Bitcoin Cast #16




E&E Bitcoin 'Cast show

Summary: Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Theres talk of the fall of Mt. GOX but should it be talk about the fall of centralized exchanges instead? http://bitcoinmagazine.com/has-the-fall-of-mtgox-already-begun/ A paper from University of Chicago prof Nichloas Plassaras opines on bitcoin.  We think he needs to read the bitcoin wikipedia article. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=226196.0 Ethans pet peeve about bitcoin discussions is that theyre so American centric but could that possibly be a benefit? http://www.coindesk.com/chinas-romance-with-bitcoin-continues/ Also, China is running with bitcoin in a big way. A great website shows the number of nodes running in China and its a lot. Check out the link. http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/ Argentina is having problems with inflation and reliable economic data from government is just wishful thinking.  Bitcoin users?  Not affected. http://localbitcoins.blogspot.fi/2013/06/argentina-goverment-fixing-exchange.html We ran out of time before we could really get into bitmessage inspired by the bitcon protocol but its well worth a look. http://www.coindesk.com/bitmessage-is-the-bitcoin-of-online-communication/