Because it is easy to divide, simple and cheap to transfer and almost impossible to counterfeit one could argue that Bitcoin are a better store of value than gold.
The arrest of "Pop" Mueller, the old junkman the government accuses of having made & circulated an average of six counterfeit one-dollar bills a week for 15 years, leaves us unreasonably, sad.
By Stanley Edgar Hyman The New Yorker, January 31 , 1948P. 15 The arrest of "Pop" Mueller, the old junkman the government accuses of having made & circulated an average of six counterfeit one-dollar bills a week for 15 years, leaves us unreasonably, sad.
The New Yorker, January 31 , 1948P. 15 The arrest of "Pop" Mueller, the old junkman the government accuses of having made & circulated an average of six counterfeit one-dollar bills a week for 15 years, leaves us unreasonably, sad.
In one incident, medical staff were stoned by villagers bent on removing ebola patients from a health centre.Given a health-care system lacking decent equipment, qualified staff and affordable drugs (rather than the more popular counterfeit ones), a lack of faith in Western medicine is understandable.
"His jerseys have sold out, even including the counterfeit ones," said Zheng Xiaojun, a 24-year-old clerk here in the capital of Zhejiang province, near Shanghai.
And someone with $1,000 in genuine bills can exchange it for $10,000 in counterfeit ones, he said, then buy cocaine that can be peddled on the street for $30,000 - a 300 percent profit.
The official reason for introducing a new pound coin now is the estimated 45 million or so counterfeit ones that are in circulation.
Only digital certificates, they say, can clearly distinguish legitimate e-mail senders from counterfeit ones.
Opponents of ACTA say it is too far-reaching, and warn that it could lead to a crackdown on small-scale digital piracy and have unintended consequences for generic drugs, which are classified along with counterfeit ones.
