Walk down memory lane: what did the media had to say about Bitcoin in 2013?

I was curious and chose 2013 because it was one those years that was right before Bitcoin really took off and not so early that it was completely under the radar. Note this was when price of Bitcoin was hovering around 20-100 dollars ( this was after a huge gain from earlier days when it was worth only pennies) — for ethereum it has not been released yet but there was a possible mentioned about it at san diego meetup, crazy.

Now for bitcoin there were lot of interesting things. For one, shout out to khan acedemy actually had video on it, comes to show how innovative this plateform was and still is.

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Economist: (April 2013) How does bitcoin work?

onlineemba: (Jan 2013) Bitcoins: The Currency of the Darknet

US News Money: (May 2013) How Did Bitcoin Become a Real Currency?

Forbes: (April 2013) Bitcoin: Whatever It Is, It’s Not Money!

MIT: Legitimizing Bitcoin: Policy Recommendations

University of Chicago: Regulating Digital Currencies: Bringing Bitcoin within the Reach of the IMF

BBC: (April 2013) Bitcoin and the illusion of money

What is fascinating here is that these articles could had been written in 2023 because these are the same issue and question we are still facing, the difference is that the stakes are much much higher and there is a lot more than btc in the cryptospace.