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David Mattin

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David Mattin is a journalist and writer based in London. In 2009 he wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 documentary The Flight from Tehran.

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Worth mentioning as well is the large number of specialized virtual assistants that do everything from create an online marketing plan to help you publish your book or do your taxes.

Michael Hardy

Some of the statements of alleged facts in this article are extraordiarily confused. It says "The leading example of a virtual currency, Bitcoin (bitcoin.org), took a step closer recently to legitimacy by becoming a registered payment services provider under European law." But Bitcoin and bitcoin.org are not the same thing, and Bitcoin is not an entity or organization and did not become a registered payment services provider. Rather, it is Bitcoin Central that became a registered payment services provider. It's almost as if this was written by someone who thought those three things, two of which are organizations and one of which is not, are the same thing. Then it says "The thief then flooded the market with stolen Bitcoins, causing the value of a single Bitcoin to fall to $0.01." Where did _that_ information come from? The price fell to that level only on the site that got hacked, and only for a day or two, until the security problems were fixed. Most of the stolen bitcoins were recovered. The market did not get flooded with them. The price drop on one site was caused by that site's security problems, not by any flood, and affected only that one site.