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Re:The Target Value for Bitcoin is $100K to $1M by glomph on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @04:59AM (#5330382)
Do we not think that if the NSA were so inclined they could fire up a few thousand ASIC like computers?

(Just curious)

Re:The Target Value for Bitcoin is $100K to $1M by mrb on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @05:24AM (#5330449)
Yes the NSA can, and has, developed custom ASIC chips. They currently do it via http://www.trustedfoundryprogram.org However I doubt the NSA will ever care about Bitcoin (their primary mission is intelligence, not breaking decentralized currencies). And by the time they do (if they do) it might be too late for them to be able to attack it (the network hash rate might have grown too much, making such an attack too costly).
Re:The Target Value for Bitcoin is $100K to $1M by waps on Saturday March 09, 2013 @07:22AM (#5348187)
If anything Bitcoin provides a full transaction record with transaction participant IDs (even if those IDs are not names). It probably helps intelligence gathering.
Re:The Target Value for Bitcoin is $100K to $1M by glomph on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @11:14AM (#5331854)
Thanks.