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Re:Hacker Redirects Traffic From 19 Internet Providers to St... by danielweber on Friday August 08, 2014 @09:30AM (#8152647)
There is good research that indicates that the bottleneck in electronic bank theft is finding the endpoints that are irreversible (think ATMs). Doubling the amount of stolen credit cards wouldn't come anywhere close to doubling the amount of money stolen out of the system.

With Bitcoin, every marginal theft adds 100% to the total Bitcoin thefts.

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Re:Hacker Redirects Traffic From 19 Internet Providers to St... by mike_hearn on Saturday August 09, 2014 @09:19AM (#8156834)
Could you give a citation for that? Not saying I disbelieve you, it sounds plausible, but I'd be interested to read that research.
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