Craig Wright exposed as Satoshi fraud and imposter by Redditors
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I would actually like to know what percentage of the BTC created everyday are actually being used for legal and technological sound purposes?
We already know that payment processors that offer BTC say that no-one uses BTC: (Taavet Hinrikus, CEO of international-payments app TransferWise, “Bitcoin, I think we can say, is dead. There is no traction, no one is using bitcoin. The bitcoin experiment, I think we can say, is over.” http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-is-dead-says-prominent...)
And we also know that more than a half of the bitcoins used in the real world are used in the Dark Web: http://www.coindesk.com/dark-web-markets-processed-more-bitc...
My guess is that the remaining are mostly just bought by traders playing around in the Bitcoin exchanges and eventually loosing most of their money due to exchange lack of oversight and ease of price manipulation. But I would like some good data on this to be able to form a sound opinion.
Transferwise is not a payment processor that offers bitcoin. They only deal with normal currencies. Transferwise offer a service (currency exchange) that is threatened (in theory) by bitcoin so I wouldn't necessarily listen to what they say about it.
Seriously, guys. Just give it a day or two. It'll all come out in the wash. I'm looking at my HN and Twitter feed and I've got 42 pounds of speculation for every one ounce of actual news.
(This doesn't apply to you but to the community at large. Your comment pointed out to me that not only is the gossip machine in full force on this story, I'm starting to see echoes of echoes of actual stories.)