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Title: To ARMS!!!! Maximum PC Article, go there and combat the ignoramus brigade! Post by: niemivh on June 09, 2011, 05:56:07 PM http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/us_senators_seek_crackdown_bitcoin
Already seeing an overload of ignorance on this story. Please join me there to combat this. Title: Re: To ARMS!!!! Maximum PC Article, go there and combat the ignoramus brigade! Post by: evoorhees on June 09, 2011, 06:07:01 PM Hmmmm I just read the comments and they looked totally reasonable to me =) The readers seem curious and cautiously supportive, actually.
Title: Re: To ARMS!!!! Maximum PC Article, go there and combat the ignoramus brigade! Post by: niemivh on June 09, 2011, 06:11:36 PM Although we have this gem from their forum:
"Now what if I am a really good hacker and I figure out how the bitcoin software and reprogram it to give me a million bitcoins? Something to the effect of couterfeitting bitcoins. How can the bitcoin system be able to identify whether the bitcoins tallys being transfered was gained legitimately?" True that there is just one person yet on this forum saying something dumb. Sorry I have such a low tolerance for people that don't inquire on their own that I may have over-reacted. Still, people should go there and make sure that whomever reading this article gets the truth. :) Title: Re: To ARMS!!!! Maximum PC Article, go there and combat the ignoramus brigade! Post by: Scientician! on June 09, 2011, 06:24:09 PM I was going to post a little informative blurb to the commenters ( agree with #2 above, commenters seem genuinely interested - now we just have to kepp them AWAY from this forum or they'll run for the hills ::) ) on security, anonymity and the blockchain, as it seems there were some questions regarding double spend etc etc...
But then, MaxPC makes you register to post. TL;DR.. Title: Re: To ARMS!!!! Maximum PC Article, go there and combat the ignoramus brigade! Post by: LegitBit on June 09, 2011, 07:05:25 PM Although we have this gem from their forum: "Now what if I am a really good hacker and I figure out how the bitcoin software and reprogram it to give me a million bitcoins? Something to the effect of couterfeitting bitcoins. How can the bitcoin system be able to identify whether the bitcoins tallys being transfered was gained legitimately?" True that there is just one person yet on this forum saying something dumb. Sorry I have such a low tolerance for people that don't inquire on their own that I may have over-reacted. Still, people should go there and make sure that whomever reading this article gets the truth. :) He's not dumb. Just ignorant. Blisteringly ignorant. |