Re:1 Bitcoin Worth 10 USD
by Retric on Thursday August 02, 2012 @06:33PM
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They could easily kill bit-coin, and having made bit-coins worthless people would have far less interest using the next currency.
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Re:1 Bitcoin Worth 10 USD
by nullymcnull on Thursday August 02, 2012 @06:45PM
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Like joering, you have failed to specify how the government will magically kill bitcoin.
Re:1 Bitcoin Worth 10 USD
by waterlesscloud on Thursday August 02, 2012 @06:55PM
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Spend enough money on machines to have 51% of the processing power and subvert the integrity of the keychain, thereby making the entire system untrustworthy.
I cargo-culted that explanation, but it sounds good to me.