Yesterday, channel Venezolana de Television (VTV) news web portal, published an article about the Bitcoin, quite offensive and threatening. The title of the article in question was titled: “BitCoin: Cyber-criminal system”, enough with read some lines from the article to realize the prejudices issued by the author.

In some fragments of the publication can appreciate as they brand the Bitcoin users of: Crooks, terrorists, drug traffickers, even of rapists. I wonder what the author relies to offend in this way to millions of people in the world that use the crypto-currency.

Perhaps the author of the quoted material doesn’t have knowledge of all the honest and influential people who use and support the Bitcoin worldwide. For this reason, to educate the character who wrote so regrettable publication, we have decided to make a list of several people who support the use of the Bitcoin:

Marc Andreessen: Co-founder of the company Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, one of the first web browsers with graphical interface. He is currently one of the main partners of the venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz.

Co-founder of the company Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, one of the first web browsers with graphical interface. He is currently one of the main partners of the venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz. Andreas Antonopoulos: Expert in security of the information, entrepreneur and author.

Expert in security of the information, entrepreneur and author. Tyler Howard Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss: Entrepreneurs and Olympic athletes in 2008, Harvard Connection founders, social network that inspired the creation of Facebook.

Entrepreneurs and Olympic athletes in 2008, Harvard Connection founders, social network that inspired the creation of Facebook. Mike Hearn: Google engineer, author of bitcoinj (first implementation of Bitcoin at Java).

Google engineer, author of bitcoinj (first implementation of Bitcoin at Java). Wences Casares: Entrepreneur with the global experience of business in the financial sector. He is the founder and CEO of the company XAPO.

Entrepreneur with the global experience of business in the financial sector. He is the founder and CEO of the company XAPO. Gavin Andresen: Software engineer, graduated of Princeton University. Andresen began his career working in 3D graphics on Silicon Graphics Computer Systems software. He is currently Scientific Director of the Bitcoin Foundation.

The list goes on and on… These people have earned their merits to pulse, working and innovating in their fields. They are not terrorists or traffickers of drugs, or much less rapists. They are respectable people who make life in the community of the Bitcoin and fight because this technology is accepted as any other technology in the world.

But perhaps, this is not enough for the author of the pseudo VTV press release, so we are going to list some companies that already accept bitcoins to sell their products and/or services:

Virgin Galactic: It’s a company of Virgin Group’s Sir Richard Branson who plans to provide manned sub-orbital space flights, suborbital science mission launches and orbital launches for small satellites.

It’s a company of Virgin Group’s Sir Richard Branson who plans to provide manned sub-orbital space flights, suborbital science mission launches and orbital launches for small satellites. Microsoft: The super famous software company creator of the operating system Windows accepts bitcoins in their virtual store in Exchange for the purchase of its products.

The super famous software company creator of the operating system Windows accepts bitcoins in their virtual store in Exchange for the purchase of its products. Tesla Motors: It’s an American company of automobiles and energy storage which designs, manufactures and sells electric luxury cars, components of the system of propulsion of electric vehicles and battery products.

It’s an American company of automobiles and energy storage which designs, manufactures and sells electric luxury cars, components of the system of propulsion of electric vehicles and battery products. Overstock: It’s an American retailer headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, near Salt Lake City.

It’s an American retailer headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, near Salt Lake City. WordPress: It’s a management system of contents or CMS, focused on the creation of any type of site, although it has reached a great importance used for the creation of blogs.

It’s a management system of contents or CMS, focused on the creation of any type of site, although it has reached a great importance used for the creation of blogs. Dell: It’s an American multinational company of privately owned information technology based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs, and is compatible with equipment, products and related services.

I don’t think that these companies, which in many cases listed on United States stock exchanges, risk having among its clients, terrorists or drug traffickers, or that provision for illicit business of money laundering, however, accept bitcoin as payment for its products and services.

In conclusion, many people try to see the Bitcoin as a harmful technology and linked to any type of criminal acts, but forget it mention that the largest number of criminal acts in the world are committed to using currencies such as the dollar, euro, peso, the real even the bolivar. Then, why the cruelty against the Bitcoin, is that perhaps they are looking for scapegoats to blame for the country’s ills?

It’s important to defend our right to use the technology, access to knowledge and even more to defend our right to choose, that’s what makes us a democratic and egalitarian society.

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