Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government
This is some serious FUD, pretty standard for Newsweeks bitcoin reporting, which included harassment of Dorian Nakomoto.<p>This is probably an unpopular opinion on HN, but let&#x27;s face it, P2P protocols like bitcoin are relatively easy to disrupt for nation state actors, especially the US!<p>For a relatively small cost, the blockchain could be flooded with bogus junk to DoS. The bootstrap mechanism could easily be MITMd to netsplit new nodes. Those are just technological mechanisms off the top of my head, which assume a perfect hypothetical cryptocurrency with none of the teething problems that all of the actual cryptocurrencies have.<p>ISIS could come up with &quot;Terrorcoin&quot; (which is the underlying vague threat of the article) but without any mechanism to transfer those coins to a fungible real world currency, it&#x27;s useless anyway.<p>Go home Newsweek, you&#x27;re drunk.