You will also soon be able to exchange bitcoins completly anonymously with the open transactions project.
https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions
Topic: Is this all just one big joke? - page 2. (Read 2694 times)
Hacking:
If you keep important files on an computer that isn't secure, you can lose those files. If those files are literally a pile of money, then people will try to get them. If you keep them on a secure computer, then (for the most part) you have nothing to worry about.
Anonymity:
It's not perfectly anonymous. Anyone can see your BTC address, and they can see what BTC addresses you send money to, but they don't necessarily know your name unless you make that public.
If you keep important files on an computer that isn't secure, you can lose those files. If those files are literally a pile of money, then people will try to get them. If you keep them on a secure computer, then (for the most part) you have nothing to worry about.
Anonymity:
It's not perfectly anonymous. Anyone can see your BTC address, and they can see what BTC addresses you send money to, but they don't necessarily know your name unless you make that public.
yup the bitcoin itself is fine, it was mtgox that got hacked. Its like a person who gets robbed...
Bitcoin as a system hasn't been hacked. MtGox is not the Bitcoin system, they only deliver a service related to Bitcoins and their website has been hacked. When a normal bankwebsite got hacked, that would not make the Dollar of Euro or any other currency a joke would it ?
I want to believe that Bitcoin is strong and will rebound, but its really hard to have faith in it when recently it has been hacked for a huge sum of coins. http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=771&doc_id=231208&f_src=internetevolution_gnews and now the most attractive feature of Bitcoin is now nule and void.
Bitcoin is still unhacked, what was hacked is MtGox and their silliness in using unsalted password and md5 which had been discouraged for years from use for hashing sensitive data.
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http://gizmodo.com/5824503/anonymous-bitcoin-purchases-arent-actually-anonymous You are not anonymous on the Bitcoin network and that makes it very unattractive to me. Im so glad I did not spend hundreds of dollars on Bitcoin when it obviously is not secure or anonymous like it claims. I really wanted to be apart of this. I think its a great idea and it the future of currency. Can someone please convince me to look past these major flaws.
Bitcoin does not claim to be anonymous like cash, just closer to anonymity. If you don't put your identifiable information all over the place and take special care, then even that research analysis method would find it close to impossible to pin you down.
I want to believe that Bitcoin is strong and will rebound, but its really hard to have faith in it when recently it has been hacked for a huge sum of coins. http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=771&doc_id=231208&f_src=internetevolution_gnews and now the most attractive feature of Bitcoin is now nule and void. http://gizmodo.com/5824503/anonymous-bitcoin-purchases-arent-actually-anonymous You are not anonymous on the Bitcoin network and that makes it very unattractive to me. Im so glad I did not spend hundreds of dollars on Bitcoin when it obviously is not secure or anonymous like it claims. I really wanted to be apart of this. I think its a great idea and it the future of currency. Can someone please convince me to look past these major flaws.
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