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Old 04-03-2011, 05:24 PM  
MyBitcoin
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What about hackers?
You might want to check out the Bitcoin whitepaper. It's a PDF that goes over all of the attacks.

Bitcoin is peer-to-peer (P2P) so you'd have to DoS every single computer that is running it to stop it.

In terms of hacking the currency: anyone with that much processing power will most likely mine coins. They'd make far more money mining coins than attacking the network.
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