I read somewhere that StackExchange sites aim at creating a knowledge base that will last for years, maybe decades. Asking "intemporal" questions at Stack Overflow is really easy because the answer to a programming question is unlikely to change significantly during the next 5 years. However, other topics do not always fit this model quite right. I believe that Bitcoin is an example of a topic that is constantly changing over time, at least for the time being.

A lot of the questions asked here will have a different answer next year. Here are a few examples from the highest voted questions:

How can I accept bitcoins on my website?

Can I send bitcoins with my mobile phone?

Is there some way to merge two wallets or to import/export addresses?

I decided to ask this now because I stumbled upon this closed question:

How do you obtain bitcoins?

This question has 10 upvotes, no downvotes and no close votes. I understand that this subject is likely to change, but so are the questions I posted above and a lot of other questions asked here.

So how do we deal with this? Is bitcoin simply wrong for StackExchange? Or should we keep updating answers, like D.H. did here and here?

I read somewhere that StackExchange sites aim at creating a knowledge base that will last for years, maybe decades. Asking "intemporal" questions at Stack Overflow is really easy because the answer to a programming question is unlikely to change significantly during the next 5 years. However, other topics do not always fit this model quite right. I believe that Bitcoin is an example of a topic that is constantly changing over time, at least for the time being.

A lot of the questions asked here will have a different answer next year. Here are a few examples from the highest voted questions:

How can I accept bitcoins on my website?

Can I send bitcoins with my mobile phone?

Is there some way to merge two wallets or to import/export addresses?

I decided to ask this now because I stumbled upon this closed question:

How do you obtain bitcoins?

This question has 10 upvotes, no downvotes and no close votes. I understand that this subject is likely to change, but so are the questions I posted above and a lot of other questions asked here.

So how do we deal with this? Is bitcoin simply wrong for StackExchange? Or should we keep updating answers, like D.H. did here and here?

I read somewhere that StackExchange sites aim at creating a knowledge base that will last for years, maybe decades. Asking "intemporal" questions at Stack Overflow is really easy because the answer to a programming question is unlikely to change significantly during the next 5 years. However, other topics do not always fit this model quite right. I believe that Bitcoin is an example of a topic that is constantly changing over time, at least for the time being.

A lot of the questions asked here will have a different answer next year. Here are a few examples from the highest voted questions:

How can I accept bitcoins on my website?

Can I send bitcoins with my mobile phone?

Is there some way to merge two wallets or to import/export addresses?

I decided to ask this now because I stumbled upon this closed question:

How do you obtain bitcoins?

This question has 10 upvotes, no downvotes and no close votes. I understand that this subject is likely to change, but so are the questions I posted above a lot of other questions asked here.

So how do we deal with this? Is bitcoin simply wrong for StackExchange? Or should we keep updating answers, like D.H. did here and here?

I read somewhere that StackExchange sites aim at creating a knowledge base that will last for years, maybe decades. Asking "intemporal" questions at Stack Overflow is really easy because the answer to a programming question is unlikely to change significantly during the next 5 years. However, other topics do not always fit this model quite right. I believe that Bitcoin is an example of a topic that is constantly changing over time, at least for the time being.

A lot of the questions asked here will have a different answer next year. Here are a few examples from the highest voted questions:

How can I accept bitcoins on my website?

Can I send bitcoins with my mobile phone?

Is there some way to merge two wallets or to import/export addresses?

I decided to ask this now because I stumbled upon this closed question:

How do you obtain bitcoins?

This question has 10 upvotes, no downvotes and no close votes. I understand that this subject is likely to change, but so are the questions I posted above and a lot of other questions asked here.

So how do we deal with this? Is bitcoin simply wrong for StackExchange? Or should we keep updating answers, like D.H. did here and here?