It is very well ritten. But the average office worker has no Idea what unencrypted "keys" means.
They just read hackers can easily access them and steal you money.
Had a lot of explaining to do today.
I explained it like this:
Having unencrypted keys would be the same as if your online banking account has no password and everyone knowing you account number could access it.
Most did understand this. I think I even got a few of my coworkers intersted and they will read a bit more about bitcoin.
Topic: 2012-09-05 news.bbc.co.uk - Bitcoin theft causes Bitfloor exchange to go offline (Read 1102 times)
September 05, 2012, 02:20:05 PM
September 05, 2012, 02:03:44 PM
Thought this was well written.
(i.e. no bias against!)
(i.e. no bias against!)
September 05, 2012, 08:38:48 AM
Yep this is one of the better articles clearly stating that the theft occurred due to a serious mistake of the owner/operator and not some kind of a flaw in Bitcoin..
But most people don't understand it anyway.
I already got this article from a college nowing I'm into BTC. With the comment, "See I told you its a scam".
They will keep saying it's a scam years after years until they realize that this isn't a scam.
September 05, 2012, 08:35:09 AM
Yep this is one of the better articles clearly stating that the theft occurred due to a serious mistake of the owner/operator and not some kind of a flaw in Bitcoin..
But most people don't understand it anyway.
I already got this article from a college nowing I'm into BTC. With the comment, "See I told you its a scam".
September 05, 2012, 08:31:45 AM
Yep this is one of the better articles clearly stating that the theft occurred due to a serious mistake of the owner/operator and not some kind of a flaw in Bitcoin..
September 05, 2012, 08:13:35 AM
This will do big favours for the coverage of bitcoins. The bbc has massive a global reach in terms of audience.
September 05, 2012, 08:11:18 AM
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One of the biggest Bitcoin currency exchanges has been taken offline after 24,000 units ($250,000; £157,800) of the virtual currency were stolen from its computer servers.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19486695
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