Sorry to drag this back up but I thought this would be important to people mining bitcoins.<br><br>Currently there is a Trojan doing the rounds that nicks your wallet.dat and as a result, gets access to all of the bitcoins contained within. Stick your wallet.dat in a slightly safer place, like a truecrypt volume, if you think you might be at risk.<br>
<br>Symantec post - <a href="http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/all-your-bitcoins-are-ours">http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/all-your-bitcoins-are-ours</a><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 May 2011 16:30, Walter van Holst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter@revspace.nl">walter@revspace.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:27:05 -0400, Agent 5 wrote:<br>
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Saw a blurb about China using their prison population to mine WoW<br>
Gold. I wonder if they're doing this with BitCoin too. Anyone heard<br>
anything?<br>
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Mining WoW gold is not quite comparable to mining Bitcoins. The first is labour intensive, the second capital intensive.<br>
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Regards,<br><font color="#888888">
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Walter</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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