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CIA conspiracy?

I C A conspiracy!

I am absolutely sure  ;D everything around us is a CIA conspiracy! Or maybe I'm paranoid? But hey, the fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean they are not out there to get me! They got bin laden after al...

Personally, my feeling is that wherever there is a large amount of money to be had, there will be international hackers trying to get at it. Mt. Gox allegedly had a SQL injection attack which are typically pretty easy to test for as a hacker (and embarrassingly easy to guard against both at an input filter level and the base database level). Occam's razor eliminates the spooks this time.

Besides, if we are going to blame a government, why not the Chinese or North Koreans? They stand to lose more from a decentralized currency.

Or maybe the Iranians, trying to retaliate for stuxnet... c'mon guys...

 :o

which one?

Not big enough yet to warrant CIA action. Once it pops to $100 and mafias get in on it, then it will start getting heavy.

the one about the aliens. if there isn't one, just make it up!  :'(

ATI conspiracy for sure. They just want to sell way more of their cards - that's all :)

I disagree.  Any countries that utilize a central bank (just about all of them) would stand to lose against a decentralized deflationary currency.  If said country's currency happens to be the world's reserve, then the bar just got raised even further.  If bitcoin got big, the biggest loser would the good ole US of A and the the 12 private banks that make up its Federal Reserve.

It turns out that one of the computers owned by the people that were doing the security audit was compromised and thats how the hackers got a hold of a database dump. Mtgox was not actually hacked itself.

Maybe they didn't crack Mt Gox, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved with the DDoS of mining.bitcoin.cz.

When a bitcoin was less than a penny, they were all sitting there going, "Oh, those cute kids," but now 1.0 BTC is real money.

(Honestly, the CIA couldn't care less.  The NSA will be the lead agency on this one.)  ::)

ha,

too many people have conspiracies in almost anything these days.

Just let time go and everything comes out in the loooong run.

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." Ghandi

It seems bitcoin is now at stage 3, "than they fight you" so victory is close!

i think that it's more that a mix of the first 3 stages.. :o

Wouldn't spooks be more inclined to use BTC?

Watch out for the colored dot on your mailbox.

Well, I'm surprised the KGB and the little green men from Mars were left out of this conversation  :)

I suspect behind mtgox issue lies CIA or secret services or am getting paranoid :-)

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but they don't take bitcoin yet  ;)

There are a couple members here that will buy the items off Amazon for you for bitcoin...at a discount. 

From what I've read, there are some pretty positive reviews :)

Been and gone bro!

It is cool.  ;D