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Friday's Big Swings, Mostly Down, Illustrate Bitcoin Value Volatility

Posted by timothy on from the still-exploring-this-cave dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As cool as Bitcoin is, it looks like it lost 1/3 of its value in the last 24 hours. Lots of big sells, complaints of liquidity, and pissed off nerds." The linked article goes on to explain that the value rose again, so the aggregate loss was considerably less. The author also helps defuse claims that Bitcoin is untraceable or otherwise especially well suited to nefarious activities.

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  1. tomhudson FAIL list vs. apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    tomhudson burned on hash tables vs. b-trees in database design vs. apk:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2095044&cid=35903780

    tomhudson bullshit on HOSTS is outnumbered 30:1 vs. apk evidences:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2087330&cid=35847946

    tomhudson PROVEN WRONG on apk's code contributions to UltraDefrag 64:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2086424&cid=35844326

    tomhudson says apk's assembly code wouldn't work but later had to ADMIT IT DID:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2092742&cid=35940418

    APK does well in this field, and when tomhudson said he has, apk asked for proof - tomhudson HAD ZERO:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2106048&cid=35951822

    (tomhudson's a HUGE bullshit artist & liar - as well as a TRUE malware maker that worked for the Russians making malwares no less, see here http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1699526&cid=32716798 )

    tomhudson has to "eat his words" after TRYING TO PUT WORDS IN APK's MOUTH HE NEVER ONCE STATED & tomhudson ran:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2092742&cid=35956312

    tomhudson exposed for publicly stalking apk here and telling others to do so as well:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2051634&cid=35660404

    tomhudson RUNS when apk showed him how his RUSSIAN BOTNET DESIGN sucks and how easy it is to defeat (from a network engineering/security perspective):

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2084000&cid=35823050

    tomhudson BURNED on DNS vs. HOSTS and CPU cycles/memory & more used on HIS "ideas" vs. HOSTS vs. apk's ideas:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2087330&cid=35879374

    tomhudson BURNED & RAN on HOSTS vs. VIRUSES vs. APK:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2088808&cid=35877448

    tomhudson says "hosts are so 90's" & apk's fellow RESPECTED security person wrote a noted article on them in 2009:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2088808&cid=35876806

    tomhudson RUNS when I prove that London Stock Exchange websites use Linux and were serving up MALWARE vs. apk:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2087016&cid=35845522

    tomhudson, limited LINUX NOOB, suggests using Linux for NTFS and says "Linux has FULL NTFS WRITE capabilities (not true, how's fsck working on NTFS, tomhudson? LMAO!):

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1992296&cid=35193490

    tomhudson said apk has "no industry experience" and apk proves he has more and BETTER EXPERIENCE than he ever will (as a Fortune 100-500 employee many times):

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1992296&cid=35192078

    (Want more?)

    tomhudson is a WANNABE loser, and from what I understand, an OUT OF WORK LOSER too!

    So much for YOU, gmhowell you known troll.