This article is about Stellar, not bitcoin. Edit: although I have to admit it spends a lot of time complaining about drawbacks of bitcoin as well.

Speaking of what the article was and was not about, is it weird that it had exactly 0 mentions of Ripple, given that Stellar is a very recent fork of Ripple, which has itself been around for a few years?

Let's recurse!

Lo and behold, we have reached the base case, sir: it's `bitcoin'.