(31/12/2013 11:03 AM)Joom Wrote:  As a note, never rely on virus scans. They're useless against encrypted data unless the strings used already have a heuristics definition. Also, all you did was scan the file's URL, which only looks for possible attacks from the site, not the file. It's actually detected as "Riskware.BitcoinMiner", but whatever. Anyway, why are so many new cryptocurrencies popping up? I thought since China deemed BTC to not be a real currency with any real worth, the idea would be dying out.

As far as I knew bitchina was still running strong

Alt currencies are really only popular because they can be traded for bitcoins to people who choose to put their faith in alt coins...

as for "fake" money 1 fake money (BTC) is currently worth 740 USD