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To: catnipman
“There is a well known bug in the Bitcoin protocol which enables the same coin to be transferred more than once”

This is, of course, completely different than a bank loaning out ten times the amount of actual cash it has in its vaults...

21 posted on 02/28/2014 10:02:55 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: null and void

“This is, of course, completely different than a bank loaning out ten times the amount of actual cash it has in its vaults... “

Well, it IS actually completely different if two (or more) people claim actual ownership of the same dollar (or bitcoin).


40 posted on 02/28/2014 5:00:41 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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