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To: Snowshoe who wrote (104793)3/5/2014 10:18:08 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217643
 
Oh well and some one told me a while back that i am clueless and Bitcoin is a valid currency
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To: Snowshoe who wrote (104793)3/5/2014 1:22:55 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217643
 
Depositing money with a bank makes people into unsecured creditors. That's hazardous to one's financial health. Some banks have government guarantees but that's problematic too because governments occasionally steal from everyone. They all do it by way of dilution of the money on deposit, but that's different. I mean they also decide to simply confiscate the money when times get hard.

Bitcoin is just another currency and any banks to which people give their bitcoins had better have really good balance sheets, very robust security systems, very trustworthy people running them and good police and government systems protecting them. There's no magic with bitcoin. It's just another fiat currency but without the normal dilution disaster eroding value and Zimbabwe hyperdilution lurking, and with no convenient means for governments to rob the owners against their will.

I don't know about Flexcoin but if they aren't secure, they are useless. They were obviously not secure: <“On March 2nd 2014 Flexcoin was attacked and robbed of all coins in the hot wallet,” the statement read. “As Flexcoin does not have the resources, assets, or otherwise to come back from this loss, we are closing our doors immediately.”>

Either keep codes confidential or deal only with a very reliable bank to pay interest, handle transactions and exchange it for other currencies.

Cyberspace systems are notoriously vulnerable to being hacked so any money system is going to have to be bullet proof because criminals will always be trying to rob it. Criminals and governments both. Some people think that governments are just Mafia writ large. There are many parallels. Their victims pay protection money and the gang pays itself, its operating departments, and its enforcers.

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