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Title: 2012-09-05 news.bbc.co.uk - Bitcoin theft causes Bitfloor exchange to go offline Post by: Seal on September 05, 2012, 01:11:18 PM Quote One of the biggest Bitcoin currency exchanges has been taken offline after 24,000 units ($250,000; £157,800) of the virtual currency were stolen from its computer servers. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19486695 Title: Re: 2012-09-05 news.bbc.co.uk - Bitcoin theft causes Bitfloor exchange to go offline Post by: Seal on September 05, 2012, 01:13:35 PM This will do big favours for the coverage of bitcoins. The bbc has massive a global reach in terms of audience.
Title: Re: 2012-09-05 news.bbc.co.uk - Bitcoin theft causes Bitfloor exchange to go offline Post by: hazek on September 05, 2012, 01:31:45 PM Yep this is one of the better articles clearly stating that the theft occurred due to a serious mistake of the owner/operator and not some kind of a flaw in Bitcoin..
Title: Re: 2012-09-05 news.bbc.co.uk - Bitcoin theft causes Bitfloor exchange to go offline Post by: Akka on September 05, 2012, 01:35:09 PM Yep this is one of the better articles clearly stating that the theft occurred due to a serious mistake of the owner/operator and not some kind of a flaw in Bitcoin.. But most people don't understand it anyway. I already got this article from a college nowing I'm into BTC. With the comment, "See I told you its a scam". Title: Re: 2012-09-05 news.bbc.co.uk - Bitcoin theft causes Bitfloor exchange to go offline Post by: kiba on September 05, 2012, 01:38:48 PM Yep this is one of the better articles clearly stating that the theft occurred due to a serious mistake of the owner/operator and not some kind of a flaw in Bitcoin.. But most people don't understand it anyway. I already got this article from a college nowing I'm into BTC. With the comment, "See I told you its a scam". They will keep saying it's a scam years after years until they realize that this isn't a scam. Title: Re: 2012-09-05 news.bbc.co.uk - Bitcoin theft causes Bitfloor exchange to go offline Post by: P_Shep on September 05, 2012, 07:03:44 PM Thought this was well written.
(i.e. no bias against!) Title: Re: 2012-09-05 news.bbc.co.uk - Bitcoin theft causes Bitfloor exchange to go offline Post by: Akka on September 05, 2012, 07:20:05 PM It is very well ritten. But the average office worker has no Idea what unencrypted "keys" means.
They just read hackers can easily access them and steal you money. Had a lot of explaining to do today. I explained it like this: Having unencrypted keys would be the same as if your online banking account has no password and everyone knowing you account number could access it. Most did understand this. I think I even got a few of my coworkers intersted and they will read a bit more about bitcoin. |