11/ No, seriously, the decentralized nobody-needs-to-trust-anybody payments network *was shut down by an IRC channel's consensus* for 8 hrs.
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12/ Time between Bitcoin blocks is not guaranteed (follows a Poisson distribution). Sometimes all pending transactions just stop for a while
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13/ The media following Bitcoin, both enthusiast press and tech rags, are so incompetent at their jobs that it beggars belief.
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14/ One example of many: a single phone call or letter in Japanese would have sufficed to verify that Mt. Gox was insolvent in summer 2013.
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