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How governments/ISPs can easily crash Bitcoin
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UsernameBitcoin
on 31/10/2014, 09:22:24 UTC
I wonder what you think of this. Can it really be possible for the NSA or some large ISP to crash Bitcoin?

- observe internet traffic
- look for 51 character strings starting with 5 *
- collect them
- import keys and transfer all coins to own account

*for sure, many people send/receive/store their private keys unencrypted,  e.g. when generating paper wallets online