<story><title>MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin</title><url>http://www.bitcoins.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lingben</author><text>Under &amp;quot;protection&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The nature of Bitcoin means that, compared to credit cards or other financial tools, your identity is safer from theft. Your level of privacy is up to you, and in the online world privacy and protection are an asset.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is hilarious. Right now basically every week we have news of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins being stolen from sites. In contrast, with a credit card every client has full protection including fraud, charge-backs, returns, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wcummings</author><text>Saying CC&amp;#x27;s have robust fraud protection is equally misleading, imo. They require you trust every merchant, website, waiter, etc to not abuse your information. Chargebacks just shift the cost of the merchant, most of the time, and as best I can tell PCI exists mostly to shift liability around.</text></comment>
<story><title>MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin</title><url>http://www.bitcoins.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lingben</author><text>Under &amp;quot;protection&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The nature of Bitcoin means that, compared to credit cards or other financial tools, your identity is safer from theft. Your level of privacy is up to you, and in the online world privacy and protection are an asset.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is hilarious. Right now basically every week we have news of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins being stolen from sites. In contrast, with a credit card every client has full protection including fraud, charge-backs, returns, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pilker09</author><text>&amp;gt; Right now basically every week we have news of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins being stolen from sites.&lt;p&gt;Rule 1: If you store your bitcoins with someone else, they&amp;#x27;ll most likely get stolen. People need to learn how to store their own bitcoins or they&amp;#x27;ll end up not having any.</text></comment>