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cprise

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9. Not quite. The folly here is more like computerized voting.

Reply to Lasher (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 21, 2014, 04:15 PM

Feb 2014

Or 'black box voting' as many of us like to say.

Computer engineering is not yet up to the task of properly securing something like Bitcoin. That's on top of Bitcoin's other problems that some other digital currencies don't share.

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