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re: Bitcoins were hacked yesterday?

Posted on 4/4/13 at 11:43 am to
Posted by Lsut81
Member since Jun 2005
81465 posts
Posted on 4/4/13 at 11:43 am to
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it is simply an attacker using a botnet to overload a website


Great, so everyones fake money is still good?
Posted by Broke
AKA Buttercup
Member since Sep 2006
65143 posts
Posted on 4/4/13 at 11:48 am to
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Great, so everyones fake money is still good?


That's what it sounds like. I'm so relieved.
Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
128380 posts
Posted on 4/4/13 at 11:54 am to
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Great, so everyones fake money is still good?

Everyone except for the customers of Instawallet who lost an estimated $4.3 million of their money yesterday when Instawallet was hacked and the hackers made off with their bitcoins.

Instawallet has shut down for 90 days (or, "indefinitely" depending on the story) while it sorts out whose bitcoins got compromised and whose money is safe. LINK

So even if a customer's money is still there, their account is frozen for 90 days and their money is unavailable to them.
Posted by Korkstand
Member since Nov 2003
28893 posts
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:04 pm to
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Great, so everyones fake money is still good?

I think so, it's just worth a little less.

As for calling it "fake money"... isn't the vast majority of our money just numbers on a computer somewhere? The only difference is a government says one is valid, and a completely open and transparent program says the other is valid.

Isn't money "real" as long as someone, somewhere is using it in exchange for something else?
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