Here's a story on Gox, on Washington Post of all places
Bitcoin?s largest exchange is dying. Here?s why that?s not a problem for Bitcoin.
There's a good analogy in there, about the dot com bubble, which I'm sure fits perfectly into Ulic's charts.
Quote:
In the 1990s, hundreds of start-ups attempted to build businesses on top of the World Wide Web. Some of them were badly run. Others chose business models that proved unsustainable. Many squandered their investors' money.
Yet the collapse of the dot-com bubble wasn't a sign that the Internet had failed. Quite the contrary. The flood of capital into the Internet economy and the subsequent shakeout was terrible for investors, but it probably accelerated the Internet's development. Out of the chaos emerged enduring companies like Yahoo, Google, Amazon and eBay.
The Internet was going to succeed whether or not Pets.com and Webvan did. By the same token, Bitcoin's success doesn't depend on the survival of Mt. Gox or any other bitcoin firm.
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