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To: varyouga
-Unlike banks, bitcoin cannot be touched without somehow extracting the key from your mind. Nobody will even know how much money you have.

Au contraire, my FRiend.

"Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on Friday, saying it may have lost nearly half a billion dollars worth of the virtual coins due to hacking into its faulty computer system."

Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy, blames hackers for losses

15 posted on 02/28/2014 8:18:32 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (I just messed up my tagline. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

That’s because people were using Mt Gox like a bank for convenience and allowing them to hold on to the keys. It defeats the entire purpose of cryptocurrency.

If your key is not stored online, nobody can hack it.


18 posted on 02/28/2014 8:22:19 AM PST by varyouga
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