Rory Cellan-Jones

@ruskin147

The BBC's technology correspondent . This is my personal profile - if you don't like the dog etc go to ♥️ not= ★

Hammersmith, Greater London (5
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Joined March 2007
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 8

    Magical Money - the ICO crypto-currency boom. Article to accompany my radio documentary on

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    3 hours ago

    ‘I am as British as they come, like hot buttered toast and bacon sarnies. And still something of an alien in my own country.’ Kamal Ahmed: The Life and Times of a Very British Man 26 October.

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  3. 4 hours ago

    We’ll try...

    Cost-benefit analysis - don't get over-excited:
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  4. 7 hours ago

    Here was the start of a very long Bitcoin discussion that began with interesting and polite contributions.....

    I've been accused of only posting negative stuff about crypto - so here's a piece arguing that Bitcoin is actually energy efficient, incentivising alternative energy. Very complex subject - do other experts agree with this analysis?
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    7 hours ago

    The BBC's tech correspondent symbolises the people at that formerly public service in his sneering, middle-class disdain for anyone he considers is beneath him . Ironically , he is the one with lack of any vision or strategic knowledge to see what technology future really means.

    My entire timeline now occupied by Bitcoin crazies and their critics - enjoyed it for 24,hours but can you go and play outside now?
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  6. 7 hours ago

    This evidence to the Treasury committee on cryptocurrencies makes interesting reading - though one witness makes a lot more sense than the others.

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  7. 7 hours ago

    This thread started with an interesting and mostly polite debate about Bitcoin energy use. As you can see, things have gone downhill...

    Replying to @davidgerard @JWWeatherman_ and 19 others
    You're a fool.
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  8. 8 hours ago

    My entire timeline now occupied by Bitcoin crazies and their critics - enjoyed it for 24,hours but can you go and play outside now?

    Replying to @francispouliot_ @StopAndDecrypt and 20 others
    The level of technical and economic ignorance in this thread is both astounding and disappointing. The failure to understand Bitcoins technical and economic merits will be the biggest regret of these people’s lives (as not buying it/or more of it at <$1 is to us all now)
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    8 hours ago

    Or you could spend 42 minutes learning all about blockchain from me & for free:

    I take it all back about there being no business model for blockchain - just been offered a one day "Introduction to Blockchain" course for £845 and that's with a £200 early booking discount
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  10. 10 hours ago

    Well...has Kellyanne been turned?Maybe she’s decided that Mr Conway is right

    Kellyanne Conway moments ago on Kavanaugh's accuser: "This woman should not be insulted and she should not be ignored." Says she should be heard as well as Kavanaugh.
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  11. 12 hours ago

    I take it all back about there being no business model for blockchain - just been offered a one day "Introduction to Blockchain" course for £845 and that's with a £200 early booking discount

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  12. 13 hours ago

    This thread on Bitcoin energy use has headed off in all sorts of directions and proved very educational for me! Thanks to all who’ve contributed

    Replying to @davidgerard @r32a_ and 3 others
    btw thank you to for starting this whole thread off 😀 I've now found a couple of excellent people to advise me on something I'm working on with
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  13. Retweeted
    15 hours ago
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    That is, cryptocurrency mining uses energy that ought to be used elsewhere to offset more polluting processes, not to produce speculative instruments of somewhat dubious societal value.

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  14. 13 hours ago

    Feeling guilty. Just given short shrift to PR selling dodgy survey whose trump card was that the research was done by a think tank the econ world sees as pretty dodgy. "Useful feedback", he said.

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    14 hours ago

    This is fake. That should go without saying. And the original poster should be ashamed not to have deleted it.

    0:19
    Hoping all my friends in Hong Kong are safe.... And all who have been effected by the terrifying typhoon This pilot needs a medal or something. True hero saving everyone
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    14 hours ago
    Replying to and

    Actually those FACTs are pretty hard to verify, hydro plants are a limited resource, and there are reasons why actual energy researchers don't treat energy systems in such simplistic manner. If crypto uses up hydro electricity, the same hydro cannot be used to displace coal.

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  17. 15 hours ago

    Another example of questionable crypto promotion

    The is an old UK newspaper nowadays distributed free. Their Business section includes an amazing crypto section. Last day return -8.5%, sentiment 100% buy! Bitcoin Cash, 100% buy! Ethereum only 99% 🤔 (Fine print: 65% of retail investor accounts lose money)
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  18. 16 hours ago

    OnePlus now planning a TV - brave?

    Stepping into our second product category.🚶
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  19. 17 hours ago

    Early morning sourdough just for

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  20. 18 hours ago

    New computer science GCSE under review as numbers getting tech qualification fall

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  21. Sep 16

    Delusional...

    ⁠The E.U. will focus on developing asset classifications and “regulatory mapping,” since crypto is “here to stay,” says European Commission Vice President I bet this is much higher on the agenda than - the EU will be much more worried about
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