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Bitcoin under pressure from hackers and regulators – economy

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More problems for bitcoin. The virtual currency is under attack from computer hackers, even as various governments consider clamping down on it.

Its main trade organisation – the Bitcoin Foundation – says unknown hackers are sending “mutated” lines of computer code into the programme that runs Bitcoin.

“This is a denial-of-service attack,” said the spokeswoman, Jinyoung Lee Englund. “Whoever is doing this is not stealing coins, but is succeeding in preventing some transactions from confirmin…
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