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How to Counterfeit Bitcoins?

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You can�t. Bitcoins simply cannot be counterfeited. However, paper money can and few people realize the following two truths. 1) Governments have perilously tenuous grips at controlling counterfeiting operations. 2) A single successful counterfeiting operation can wreak havoc and destabilize even the most developed western economy. In 2000, self-taught Wesley Weber was so successful at forging the Canadian 100 dollar bill that many stores simply stopped accepting the notes. To show you what I mean, in 2005 Anatasios Arnaouti was arrested in the UK with a counterfeiting operation capable of producing tens of thousands of individual notes each day. In the BBC, a representative for the National Crime Squad reported �These were good quality banknotes, good quality travelers� cheques which could have had a very significant undermining effect on those economies.� He also reported, �The potential to undermine the economy of the UK and US was very significant.� Separately, in the year 2000 a s