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TIL that in 2011, an attack was launched on the Something Awful forum by mercenaries paid in Bitcoin. The reward was 5 BTC per hour of downtime.

Thing is, it apparently crashed the BTC price for half an hour due to panic selling. What a great time it was!
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Something Awful's Unintentional War Against Bitcoins

Over the weekend mercenaries were hired to launch an attack on Something Awful. They were paid in Bitcoins.

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	5,000 mlx total
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