Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks

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    Anyone else think these attacks are state sponsored? Seems silly for "criminals" to cripple a payment system they use. I guess driving the price as low as possible, and then buying and stopping the attacks, would be profitable - but it just seems that countries just don't want BTC to operate.
     
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    Bitcoin’s Political Problem.

    Notice: The above article describes the 'political' box a cryptocurrency technology such as Bitcoin faces in the joust between new technology and existing government monetary policies. Due to the Wilders Security Forums Terms of Service (TOS) policy of "no controversial political content posting in threads" I urge all whom encounter this message to read the article to understand it, and please "NO CONTROVERSIAL POLITICAL CONTENT OPINION COMMENTING" about it. Thank you one and all for observing this notice.

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    The rise and fall of Bitcoin mining.

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    Biggest Bitcoin Exchange Restores Service
    http://online.wsj.com/news/article_...4579384791457827078-lMyQjAxMTA0MDEwNDExNDQyWj
     
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    The Mt. Gox price has been 200-300 USD over the weekend, versus 600-650 USD for CoinDesk's average (which hasn't included Mt. Gox since 10 Feb).

    I wonder if Mt. Gox can recover.
     
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    Inside the Great Bitcoin Heist.

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    First Bitcoin ATMs coming to the US this month
    http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/18/5421708/robocoin-bitcoin-atm-seattle-austin-launch
     
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