The hacker wasn't trying to get money. He was trying to undermine the system.
What makes you think that?
Heck, I've been undermining bitcoin for weeks just for fun, but I'd much rather have a thousand dollars.
What makes you think that?
Heck, I've been undermining bitcoin for weeks just for fun, but I'd much rather have a thousand dollars.
Uh, sorry, that's pretty much textbook paranoia.
Sure, and they shut it down openly using the hammer and anvil of the FBI and the judicial system. If and when the US Government decides to act against bitcoin, they'll do it loudly and openly... not by some complicated, difficult and illegal scheme that doesn't really achieve anything.
Currency issues fall into the jurisdiction of the US Secret Service, an agency not known for subtlety.
"Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."