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Wither Bitcoin?

• smt88 12y ago
  No matter how important and lasting something is, mainstream media will get diminishing returns from talking about it. A good example is Hurricane Katrina: it was discussed incessantly for a few weeks, and then it disappeared from headlines. For many people, it's a continuing tragedy, but you don't hear about it anymore. That's an extreme example, but you get my point. People stop reading about the same thing over and over again. Bitcoin was a bit of a buzzword (buzz topic?) for a while, and now people are writing about other things to draw traffic. None of this is to say that Bitcoin is everything people are saying it is. It's not a replacement for currency, even though something like it may be one day. (Also, Bitcoin user growth seems to have slowed quite a bit. There is apparently a ceiling on the number of people willing to trust it to buy things.)