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Steko
on Feb 19, 2013
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Bitcoin is about to hit $30. Here are comments fr...
Bitcoin doesn't solve counterfeiting, it just moves the goalpost from printing to hacking.
gizmo686
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Bitcoin has cryptographic assurances against counterfeiting. Stealing money is still a problem.
Steko
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You can hijack the entire currency with enough processing. Very hard? Yes. Still counts as counterfeiting.
Coinabul1
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Show me one example of the Bitcoin protocol being hacked.
The hacking you speak of is more akin to bank robbery.
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