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I'm trying to imagine a jury of your peers understanding the crime. "So they stole internet money? I'm confused."

• gus_massa 13y ago
  It's easy to explain. Bitcoins are like American Airlines miles. If someone enter a miles account of another person, and use the miles to buy or receive a reward it, then I'd call the miles "stolen". Perhaps we need a lawyer to pick the exact name of the crime. The difference is that Bitconin is decentralized, so there in no equivalent of A.A. to handle the servers. But it's easy to understand that a number in a computer screen is valuable. Well, most of the dollars are only a number in a computer screen, not real life bills.