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I don’t think that the existence of marketing firms involved in decentralized technologies is anywhere near as significant or mind-blowing of a point as you por

by baddox 9y ago

I don’t think that the existence of marketing firms involved in decentralized technologies is anywhere near as significant or mind-blowing of a point as you portray it. There is no reason to expect or desire that, because Bitcoin is decentralized, there will never be any private for-profit organizations involved with Bitcoin. Surely you wouldn’t say the same thing about, say, email. I’m sure marketing firms have worked with companies that offer services involving email.

alexasmyths 9y ago
It's a fair point ... but ... Making an email product and hiring PR to promote email I think is a little bit different than 'owning a stock and hiring PR to promote that stock'. BTC is purely a speculative thing right now - and so hiring PR to pump up a purely speculative thing? "It's going to $10K and it's only going up, up, up!" If they were promoting BTC as a medium of exchange and as currency, sure ... but as a purely speculative asset it's smells like a pump and dump.