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Re:Professional Traders Show Interest in Bitcoin by _k on Monday April 02, 2012 @09:41AM (#3788015)
Two questions: 1. When a country limits capital flow, it sometimes becomes impossible to move your money out of that country. Doesn't Bitcoin solve that problem? 2. I have very little knowledge about how it actually works and how secure it is. How secure is Bitcoin ? Are governments via ISPs able to recognize packets that contain Bitcoins ? Or do you need to use ssh ?
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Re:Professional Traders Show Interest in Bitcoin by wmf on Monday April 02, 2012 @10:11AM (#3788164)
OK, so you want to give cash to some guy who will give you Bitcoins in exchange. But then he's stuck with cash that he can't move out of the country, so he has to charge very high fees if he's willing to deal at all.
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Re:Professional Traders Show Interest in Bitcoin by stuhood on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @03:55AM (#3791977)
Bitcoin runs well over Tor: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tor
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