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Hugin

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6. Before these idiotic events revealed that bitcoin was no more sophisticated than a Farmville cow...

Fri Apr 11, 2014, 05:24 AM

Apr 2014

Last edited Fri Apr 11, 2014, 08:53 AM - Edit history (1)

I had wrongly assumed that there was possibly built into their encryption a serial number or other security device rendering them nearly impossible to steal.

Silly me.

I'm glad my ludditeish insistence on having a physical means of exchange proved to be the better plan after, I don't know, thousands of years of a track history. They may make my mattress lumpy, but, at least I know where they are at night.

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