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Yes, but there's no FDIC-insured BitCoin bank, and there's no way to write a virus that steals cash.



And there really can't ever be one. A bank requires some way to offset risk (insurance, etc); If it gets robbed, the insurer pays out; In this case, an insurer would need to physically keep more bitcoins than the insured on hand in order to handle a payout situation. Since bitcoins can't be 'printed' like dollars, there's no way to simply have an 'FBcIC' without allowing them to substitute something for those bitcoins in a payout situation (e.g., the USD cash value).




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