2013年11月29日 星期五

Welshman throws away fortune in Bitcoins

We didn't notice many performance issues with the Gamestick user interface, although it did freeze on a couple of occasions, perhaps unsurprising given its recent launch.Have you ever accidentally thrown out something of value to you? A family portrait, perhaps, or the only remote controller that can operate the decade-old television set in your spare bedroom?Irritating though those mistakes undoubtedly are, you have probably never consigned anything worth more than $6.5m to the rubbish bin.Over the years, the NSA has worked to insert backdoors in cryptographic standards; the agency has purposefully spread at least one bad algorithm,China tourist visa and NSA algorithms are the basis for many products, including some that protect sensitive government data.Unlike James Howells.The IT worker from Newport, south Wales, binned an old hard drive during the summer, only to remember last week that he had stored a "digital wallet" of 7,500 Bitcoins - an increasingly popular virtual currency - upon it.

"I've searched high and low," he told the UK's Guardian newspaper."I've tried to retrieve files from all of my USB sticks, from all of my hard drives. I've tried everything just in case I had a backup file, or had copied it by accident. And ... nothing."When Howells created the tokens of the crypto-currency in 2009, they were practically worthless. In the years since, however, Bitcoins have gained popularity as the currency of choice for anonymous internet transactions. Earlier this month,Overall, corporate Robot system earnings for the third quarter have been better than analysts had forecast.Earnings for S&P 500 companies are expected to grow by 5.2 percent in the July-to-September period, according to S&P Capital IQ. a US Senate committee described Bitcoins as a "legitimate financial service".And on Wednesday afternoon, the price of each Bitcoin reached $1,000, for the first time since the currency's inception.

The surge in its price has some believing that it has become overvalued in a short period of time, owing to its limited supply and increasing demand."A narrow asset class and lots of liquidity is the perfect environment for a rapid burst up in value, and then corrections," said Sebastien Galy, a currency strategist at Societe Generale in New York.IPC today introduced the Infinea Tab M, the first D-Cycloserine mobile POS device compatible with the iPad mini.Bitcoins are an entirely virtual conception; there is no physical manifestation of the crypto-currency - you can't fill your wallet with them - and its value depends on investor confidence. They are created by users "mining" them - running complex algorithms needed to make the currency work. It is thought around 11 million Bitcoins are currently in global circulation.

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