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Paul Krugman Is Excited to See Bitcoin Have Issues

Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:13 pm

Yesterday on January 11 the American economist and professor of economics, Paul Krugman, seemed pretty excited about The North American Bitcoin Conference not being able to accept bitcoin for tickets. Krugman tweeted our recent article to his 4 million followers gloating that bitcoin is “too clunky and expensive.”

On January 10 news.Bitcoin.com reported on the unfortunate predicament organizers of The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) had to deal with — due to fees and network congestion, TNABC stopped processing bitcoin payments for tickets. The news spread like wildfire throughout the cryptocurrency community, with people clamoring about how depressing it was one of the largest bitcoin conferences couldn’t accept the cryptocurrency for entry into the event. The economist and New York Times contributor Paul Krugman thought the subject was interesting as well when he tweeted our story yesterday.

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