Translations:Blockchain/15/en

• Pump and dump investors caused by lack of traditional regulation
• Price volatility, especially notorious bubbles and crashes
• Use as an investment commodity
• A series of embarrassing security failures (notably Mt. Gox)
• Use by cyber criminals
• Technophilia by its advocates
• Criticism of the anarchist or libertarian politics advocated by many of its users
• Dysfunction of its centralised components, notably core development team and increasingly centralised mining pools