You can’t. Bitcoins simply cannot be counterfeited. However, paper money can and few people realise the following two truths. 1) Governments have perilously tenuous grips at controling counterfeiting operations. 2) A single successful counterfeiting operation can wreak havoc and destabilise even the most developed western economy. In 2000, self-taught Wesley Weber was so successful...

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A Bitcoin trading platform has announced this week that it is the world’s first fully-licensed advanced trading platform for Bitcoins. Bitcoinica was developed by a 17 year old Chinese student named Zhou Tong. After 7 and a half months his advanced trading platform had traded 8.5 million Bitcoins (currently worth roughly 44 million USD)....

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