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    A Bitcoin Exchange Holding $4.1 MillionHas Simply Vanished

    Bitcoin provides anonymity for the identity of the holder, but when you try to exchange bitcoins for fiat currency the anonymity aspect is gone. Since the blockchain is a public ledger of all transactions, it's very easy to track the stolen money and exchanges like mtgox actively monitor if...
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    Call to hackers worldwide: please get Goldman Sachs emails similar to Climategate.

    Everyone you connect to has your IP logged, but hackers circumvent this problem by using a proxy server. So the hacker can connect through someone else's computer/server and reroute their http requests through them so the IP logged is the proxy not the hackers. You can also be creative and...
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    Any traders/brokers for algorithmic trading cooperation?

    This forum may be more suited for the information your seeking. http://www.wilmott.com/index.cfm?NoCookies=Yes&forumid=1
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    Why Madoff didn't tried a passive strategy, like buy-and-hold, covered-calls, etc?

    I also don't understand his logic. He had enough money to buyout all the top quants and traders and could of made a decent return.
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    Fuel tax could be replaced with by-the-mile road tax

    This makes no logic. They're saying a toyota corolla creates as much wear and tear on the roads as a 20 ton tractor trailer
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    How many nukes are we going to let NK build before we take them out?

    Im not a fan of the former administrations foreign policy, but Obama needs to take some advice from Bush and Cheney. When we invaded Iraq on speculation of their WMD, all these rogue nations like Libya, Iran, Syria, NK were scared shittless that they could be next. Obama has come in spouting...
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    CA Governor Schwarzenegger Looks to Illegal Drugs for Tax Revenue

    Why would someone pay say a 25% mark up, on a product who's cost is derived from its weight and quantity, where the underground distribution networks are already well established . It would probably get more drug dealers in the game since now the punishment is nonexistent, except the tax-fraud...
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    57% increase in health insurance...

    I agree that healthcare itself is expensive, the bill to put a catheter in my bladder, when i had an infection, was $1,200
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    This crisis proved that Business Schools and Finance Universities are worthless?

    Maybe it tells us that everything taught in schools are just theories that work best in the past situations, that changing a variable in the problem completely changes the answer.
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    whats with Investopedia paper trading?

    Has anyone notice that the guys in #1, #2 have a massive return? I was checking it a few weeks ago and saw that locke gained a large balance in a short time, but now a new user appeared and both have multiplied their gains in just a few days. Is their a delay or some other hole these guys are...
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    zero sum game?????????????

    I don't like to think of wealth as a numerical value but as a comparative value, although we use that numerical number to compare. But has wealth actually increased through technology and innovation or has it only lowered the value of assets? Are people wealthier now then 50 years ago? If 100%...
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