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Comment Re:Conspiracy theory: Bitcoin crash of April 2013 (Score 1) 367

If the US wanted bitcoin gone, they could have done so.

There exists something called an "51% attack", which means that anybody having more than half the hashrate of the Network is acknowledged as the boss and can do as he wants (stuff like spending the same bitcoin multiple times, manipulate the difficulty of future block mining, etc).

Back in April, before mass ASICS, the US could have trivially gotten that far. Hell, last year anybody willing to spend 5-10 million could have done it with off-the-counter hardware.

For an agencies who have a double digit BILLION black budgets, this is totally peanuts.

Comment Re:Those magnets sure were fun (Score 1) 555

I don't think its disturbing to be able to buy them "so easily".

I mean, seriously. You need a credit card or paypal to buy from them, so you are no infant in the "I eat metal stuff" phase.

And secondly, you have dozens of way more deadly things in your appartment at any time, anyway.

Comment Re:20 min of fun (Score 1) 164

You might not realize it, but I would bet a lot of money that 90% of the time, you are using less than 20% of the power your car has.

Seriously. If you have a 200HP car, it will do that if you floor the pedal a bit below the redline. Normal driving? It takes maybe 15-20HP to keep a car moving at 70MPH on the highway.

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