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Seriously, what is Izabella Kaminska (FT) doing? "anyone actually wanting to use the bitcoin network for payments right now has to put trust in the totally opaque and centralised accounting practices of exchanges and payment processors like Coinbase and Bitpay" (ftalphaville.ft.com)

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[–]zluckdog 25ポイント26ポイント  (10子コメント)

Previously on 'Rekt' ...

IK:

https://twitter.com/izakaminska/status/594235561281515521

AC reply:

https://twitter.com/anjiecast/status/594236457822212096

[–]TweetsInCommentsBot 3ポイント4ポイント  (4子コメント)

@izakaminska

2015-05-01 20:22 UTC

@anjiecast and your economic qualification is from?

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2015-05-01 20:26 UTC

.@izakaminska I'm in a PhD program at GMU and do economic research at Mercatus. How about you?

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[–]targetpro 14ポイント15ポイント  (3子コメント)

From Izabella Kaminska's own bio:

"Everything she knows about economics stems from a childhood fascination with ancient economies, specifically the agrarian land reforms of the early Roman republic and the coinage and price stability reforms of late Roman emperors. Her favourite emperor is one Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletian.

Emphasis: mine.

So we have a PhD candidate and economic researcher on one hand, versus someone with a "childhood fascination" on the other.

[–]twfry 17ポイント18ポイント  (2子コメント)

And never mind that fact that those "price stability reforms" of the late Roman emperors, where nothing more than desperate last minute attempts to stop rampant price inflation after a century of grossly devaluing the Roman currency to pay for their on going deficit.

She does not even understand the economic basics of the items she highlights in her own bio.

It's sad really, but this is the world today and why we are repeating the same corruption.

[–]targetpro 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Wow!... just wow.

[–]sqrt7744 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

Well Andrea is apparently both smarter and better looking than Izabella. Both admirable qualities.

[–]jesset77 -2ポイント-1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Since Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, your assessment of Andrea's looks tell us nothing about her and instead tell us only about your potential aesthetic vulnerabilities.

Reason #83 not to go commenting on other peoples' looks, even when you think the appraisement is positive and thus could only be welcomed. ;3

[–]twfry 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Dude chill out

[–]targetpro -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm not so sure about that. Every babe I've ever dated has loved it when I tell them they're gorgeous/beautiful, especially if we're about to go out on the town!

[–]Taidiji 38ポイント39ポイント  (7子コメント)

Izabella Kaminska has very poor understanding in general. People may pay attention to her because

  1. She works for the FT
  2. She use fancy terminology which might fool some dumb people into thinking she is smart.

She has very poor understanding of bitcoin and has managed to write 75 articles on it. She has purely academic understanding of economics.

Her irrational hatred for bitcoins comes from her fear of anything that is not controlled by the state. Felix Salmon is another such socialist retard.

Unfortunately she is not an isolated case. Most journalists are just good at one thing (writing) and barely understand what they are writing about. You just notice it when you know the field, but it's all the time on any non trivial matter.

The worst thing in kaminska's case is that she is extremely arrogant to go with it. There was an exchange where she got destroyed by another women (Andrea Castillo) on twitter regarding bitcoin. That would have been funny if it was not so pathetic.

[–]jaydoors[S] 14ポイント15ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ignorance I can understand. But she must know that what she has said there is untrue. She reads r/bitcoin, apparently.

[–]targetpro 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

+1 and bonus points, if you can link to the twitter exchange.

[–]btcfl 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I agree. Some of her analysis is accurate but shit like this is not good for bitcoin considering who reads the FT.

[–]bitcom_CTO 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Just in case you didn't see it, it was linked about the same time you posted.

[–]targetpro 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Thanks!

1 nice /u/changetip

[–]changetip 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

/u/bitcom_CTO, targetpro wants to send you a Bitcoin tip for 1 nice (822 bits/$0.25). Follow me to collect it.

what is ChangeTip?

[–]catsfive 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Who owns FT? Not the holding company. Get higher. Get to a NAME.

Then we'll have our answer.

[–]pecuniology 21ポイント22ポイント  (2子コメント)

I know someone like this on Facebook. He comes out with these ridiculous strings of non sequiturs to 'prove' the impossibility of Bitcoin, while ignoring anyone's direct questions for clarification on his wilder assertions.

If people like my guy and Izabella Kaminska really believed that Bitcoin were worthless, then—like the pathetic trolls who spend so much time on /r/bitcoin—why do they obsess about it?

That's as pointless as would be my hanging out on Marxist/feminist, White Supremacist, or Keynesian Economics discussion boards.

[–]targetpro 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

True. Amazingly, a lot people are too unaware to realise they're wasting their own time, proving a remarkable talent for the ineffective use of their own time.

[–]JohnStoltz 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

that is a weird psychological thing that fascinates. Like the idea that /r/buttcoin exists is so interesting in a way. Someone actually has such a problem with btc that they went out of their way to make a sub about it.

[–]Introshine 32ポイント33ポイント  (2子コメント)

She went full butttard.

[–]KillMarcusReed 10ポイント11ポイント  (1子コメント)

Never do that. Full buttard.I mean, never do full buttard. Er. Never go there. Never go full buttard. Yeah, that.

[–]jabetizo 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

I hope she shorted BTC.

[–]erikwithaknotac 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Best curse to put on any Butcoiner

[–]TenToAustin 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

https://youtu.be/wvVPdyYeaQU

[–]laisee 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

she's been using Bitcoin as a click-baiting topic for a while now. Seems like flogging a horse that won't lie down and die ...

[–]targetpro 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

She simply doesn't know what she doesn't know. And being a journalist these days, that seems to be sufficient cause to run with the story.

A failure like this rests on the shoulders of multiple parties, including her editor.

If anyone cares to—politely—email her, she's at:

izabella.kaminska@ft.com

[–]Avatar-X 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

WAT? Such a baffling sentence.

[–]hoveringlurker 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't know this woman and I don't care, but exchanges suck. The way a new adopter gets his first bitcoins is old school, intrusive, slow and dependable on the exchanges.

Opening an account, transfering money, wayting for the money to clear on the exchange, then finally getting your coins (at an unpredictable price, since there was a lag of two to three days). That's Not cool.

[–]throwthecan 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

Maybe he gets paid for throwing shit at bitcoin and spreading misinformation.

[–]targetpro 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's likely she simply gets paid for whatever sells. And there's no shortage of drama in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

[–]FlashBang04 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

She's probably a twitter troll bot.

[–]ALIARWHOISNOTDRUNK 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

haha this girl does anal if anyone was wondering