Bitcoins and Blockchains (฿): Bitcoin in the News

12 December 2015

Bitcoin in the News - Q3 2015

Continuing with Bitcoin in the News - June 2015, I continued exploring the bitcoin world by catching up with the news for July, August, and September of this year. I noted about 70 stories, although September was problematic, because Google News Alert emails became sporadic around the beginning of that month. The upshot was less repetition, but more chance of overlooking something small and quirky.

There are a few ways of categorizing the news. The most important stories are picked up by the main news services and help to identify the big stories of a particular month. For example,

2015-07: Fearing return to drachma, some Greeks use bitcoin to dodge capital controls • Reuters
2015-08: MtGox bitcoin chief Mark Karpeles arrested in Japan • BBC News
2015-09: Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity, According to U.S. Regulator • Bloomberg
2015-09: Bitcoin: Anything But a Currency, U.S. Government Says • Fortune

I give two examples of that last story, because the cited services specialize in business news and are more focused than general news services like Reuters and BBC. Also relevant are services that specialize in technological news. For example,

The Bitcoin Schism Shows the Genius of Open Source • Wired
Recording Nasdaq Trades on Bitcoin Platform: How It Works • MIT Technology Review
Hacking Team broke Bitcoin secrecy by targeting crucial wallet file • Ars Technica

Two more business news services are worth mentioning because of their prestige. Although less useful because they sit behind a paywall (I'm willing to pay for one service at a time, not ten), the titles offer clues to the same stories on other, open sources.