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illumin8 on May 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I'm leaving Bitcoin

+1. Please give him respect. It's not often that a 17 year old hacker builds a site in 4 and a half days that begins processing over $1M USD in volume. Of course it's going to be a target for hackers. Do you insult the local jewelry store owner because his diamonds got stolen?

polyfractal on May 13, 2012 [–]

Perhaps, if that jewelry store owner had his diamonds sitting on a picnic table outside the store, unsupervised.

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