Kevin Drum  Here Are Two Sentences to Ponder Over Instead of
Fretting About Ukraine  | Sat Mar. 1, 2014 3:59 PM GMT
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Thought Bitcoins Were Unstealable?  | Fri Feb. 28, 2014 11:26 AM
GMT  I don't really care about Bitcoin—really I don't—but I
guess I'm curious about something. How is that cyber thieves
were able to steal a million bitcoins from Mt. Gox? I understand
that Mt. Gox had inadequate security, but I thought the whole
point of bitcoin was that it was protected by its very nature:
every transaction is stored in a block chain; the block chains
are mirrored by thousands of bitcoin miners; and you can't screw
with the block chains unless you apply galactic amounts of
computing power. So even if you managed to steal some bitcoins,
you couldn't get anyone else to accept them unless you could
demonstrate proper ch