Learning and understanding a subject is necessary to forming your own opinion on that subject. If ten people here tell you it is a waste and ten others tell you it's the best thing since sliced bread, what have you learned? Nothing. Only lazy, ingnorant people let others form their opinions for them.
What I am asking is would this be considered a coin to collect to one day tell their kids that at one point people where trying to use this instead of cash? Sort of like Norfed Liberty Dollar. Atleast the norfed had caught people attention. This bitcoin is a odd thing I've seen the bill version with Ron Pauls face it on it which caused me to look more into it.
They do make actual bitcoins but i dont think people actually trade in them. I think its more of a novelty representing the electronic bitcoin. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Casascius_physical_bitcoins
I tried to buy a one bitcoin debit card from an Amazon seller. The order was cancelled. 39 days later for non-fullfillment.
Physical bitcoins are tokens with special unique code on them. This code can be redeemed on a certain online resource and you will get one virtual bitcoin, after which you can throw the token away, it becomes worthless (well, maybe not to token collectors). The breach happened quite long ago, rickmp. Trading company was the target and it indeed caused some havoc. The situation was resolved and measures were taken to make sure it doesn't happen again. Until next time.
I believe there have been quite a few breaches....not just one. The bitcoin "realm" is the domain of many hackers so this kind of thing somewhat goes with the territory.
