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I'm not that intelligent, but a few folks on the BC forums and other places have brought up some great points:

1. Government shutdown

2. BitCoins P2P network is very vulnerable to denial of service attacks; ones that actually cost money!

3. Public Node can be tracked; no more anonymity.

4. Technical merits of the crypto implementation have not been fully tested; is there a possible flaw?

5. Social engineering and one-time inflation.

6. Unreliable and opaque banking organizations; no one is backing it.

There are many more, and they could all be fixed if bit coin was a centralized currency system, but it is not. It is too soon to say "BitCoin is ridiculous and will never work", but someone with a motive and means can definitely make a miners life hell.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=69178

Here are some things BC has going for it though!

1. Distributed with no single point of failure.

2. No "mint"; could be a bad thing.

3. No individual company can be arrested and shut down.

4. "Anonymity"



2. BitCoins P2P network is very vulnerable to denial of service attacks; ones that actually cost money!

The guys developing Bitcoin should take a look at the Phantom protocol then, which is supposedly very resilient agaisnt DDoS attacks.




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