Why “bitcoins” is being discussed
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How are all bitcoins legally questionable? One that you freshly mined seems fairly pristine.
by eru · Oct 31, 2026
Far too many people don't realise this. The internet only isn't P2P because of market economies of scale - like how all the bitcoins are (were) in Binance. The underlying tech i…
by cowlevel · Oct 30, 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery Most of the billion was frozen though if it was not frozen in time it would have probably evaporated ju…
by csomar · Oct 30, 2026
I doubt Escobar would use Bitcoins to store funds. They are traceable and are too volatile to store illicit gains. But to carry transaction he would use them on massive scale su…
by fpoling · Oct 30, 2026
Speaking of cherry-picking, props for avoiding the entire point of my comment and instead pulling out some carefully-chosen NUMBER GO UP examples. With apologies to Mr. Buffett[…
by ForHackernews · Oct 30, 2026
Individuals get hacked and their bitcoins taken so often that it doesn't make the news.
by lmm · Oct 30, 2026
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Bitcoin is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Based on a free-market ideology, bitcoin was invented in 2008 when an unknown person published a white paper under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto. Use of bitcoin as a currency began in 2009, with the release of its open-source implementation. From 2021 to 2025, El Salvador adopted it as legal tender currency before revoking it. As bitcoin is pseudonymous, its use by criminals has attracted the attention of regulators, leading to its ban by several countries. Read more on Wikipedia