Comment Re:Another Bitcoin crap story (Score 1) 535
Last week it was about an imaginary bust of a Bitcoiner "miner" who may be using too much electricity, making law enforcement potentially believe that it was a grow-op.
Today is a story about virtual currency that is barely used anywhere to be used on online drug trading. Not Bitcoin specifically. Paypal most likely
... Honestly. Having a video "story" is bad enough. Having the story linked to Bitcoin on a vague premise is pretty bad.
Let's create a Bitcoin
/. filter, so I can exlude these stories from my profile. Not sure how this relates to "Privacy". I'm thinking that there is a group of Bitcoin proponents working hard to get any publicity.
http://silkroadmarket.org/
There is indeed an illicit drug market run through tor, and bitcoin not pay-pal is its currency.
TFA may not refer to silkroad, but it does exist.