I caused the guy who created Bitcoin to go into hiding -- by accident

Back in 2010 I was a freelance journalist. I took work where I could find it. One of my jobs was to write news stories for PC World’s Bizfeed and Newsdesk blogs. The goal with the blogging was simple and primitive: Break news stories before anybody else. Doing so meant Google News would put our articles at the top of the list if that topic began to trend, because we got there first.  That meant clicks. Clicks meant ad conversions. It was necessary for me to hammer these articles out, usually writing the required two per day by lunchtime. Because… [Continue Reading]