[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: Re: [hackerspaces] bitcoin

[William V. Johnston]

I heard on NPR that bitcoin was really only good for buying one thing
online...

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Stewart Dickson
<MathArt at emsh.calarts.edu>wrote:

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> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:30:42 +0100  From: Niall Kearney <mantel at gmail.com><mantel at gmail.com>  Reply-To:
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> Sorry to drag this back up but I thought this would be important to people
> mining bitcoins.
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> Currently there is a Trojan doing the rounds that nicks your wallet.dat and
> as a result, gets access to all of the bitcoins contained within. Stick your
> wallet.dat in a slightly safer place, like a truecrypt volume, if you think
> you might be at risk.
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> Symantec post -
> http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/all-your-bitcoins-are-ours
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> On 31 May 2011 16:30, Walter van Holst <walter at revspace.nl> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:27:05 -0400, Agent 5 wrote:
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>>> Saw a blurb about China using their prison population to mine WoW
>>> Gold. I wonder if they're doing this with BitCoin too. Anyone heard
>>> anything?
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>>  Mining WoW gold is not quite comparable to mining Bitcoins. The first is
>> labour intensive, the second capital intensive.
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>> Regards,
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>>  Walter
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