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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by Zigurd on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:24AM (#6508042)
Bitcoins are different in that they weigh nothing and you can keep the fact you have them secret and plausibly deniable until they develop FMRI techniques to retrieve passwords or the location where you geocached memory cards with the wallet data.
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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by betterunix on Monday October 07, 2013 @02:34PM (#6510244)
...how is that different from paper money or gold? Burying your money is a pretty ancient trick...
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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by damon_c on Monday October 07, 2013 @03:36PM (#6510639)
because burying 80 million dollars would take a few hours and a lot of space...and probably a few big black barrels or something.

burying bitcoin can be done with a flowerpot.

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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by aianus on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:58PM (#6511577)
It's very difficult to leave the country with $80m in paper bills or bullion. You can hide bitcoin in your head and nobody can tell it's there.
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