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Re:Bitcoin rises by bitgossip on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @04:37PM (#5403452)
I have heard from people who have heard, that the government of China is through proxies aggresively buying large amounts of Bitcoins for future strategic advantage.

I am not sure at all how accurate those reports are, it is probably just hearsay.

But it makes one think.

Re:Bitcoin rises by rmc on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @06:08PM (#5403939)
It's probably easier and cheaper for the Chinese government to just mine them. They'd control enough computing power.
Re:Bitcoin rises by bitgossip on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:27AM (#5407802)
I don't think so, the number of miners is giant nowadays.