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Re:Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin by sliverstorm on Monday November 12, 2012 @03:01PM (#4774456)
Nothing preventing there from being one, aside from the good 'ol risk of 51% attack.
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Re:Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin by linhares on Monday November 12, 2012 @03:53PM (#4774720)
all that would do is to enable the attacker to double-spend their own btc. Not much else.
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Re:Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin by sliverstorm on Monday November 12, 2012 @04:32PM (#4774903)
That sounds pretty catastrophic to me.
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Re:Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin by icebraining on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @04:25AM (#4777171)
Similar frauds occur every day with "normal" currencies, though.
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