The Hot Sheet: Worries, Troubles, Concerns
There’s a lot of worry out there – bitcoin is like blood diamonds, claims one prominent publication. Another cites worries by US officials that drug dealers (not the legitimate kind, either) are using digital currency. And in the EU, digital money apparently isn’t welcome.
Today’s most interesting stories:
- Forbes takes a shot at bitcoin:
- Japan and Russia may team on digital currency:
- Digital money isn’t welcome in the EU
- Drug dealers use digital currency, worry officials
- Travel and the blockchain
NOTABLE QUOTES:
From marketer Seth Godin’s blog:
From restaurants to direct mail, there’s pressure to be scalable, to be efficient, to create something easily replicated. Which is often used as the reason it’s not very good. “Well, we’d like to spend more time/more care/more focus on this, but we need to get bigger.”
What if you started in the other direction?
What would happen if you created something noteworthy and worried about scale only after you’ve figured out how make a difference?
