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@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ currencies.</p>
 <p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
 CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
 competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
-to see which one get the next lump of cash.  The "winner" get 50
+to see which one get the next lump of cash).  The "winner" get 50
 BitCoin when this happen.  Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
 join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
 by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
@@ -90,6 +90,12 @@ if this sounds interesting.  I have not had time to try to set up a
 machine to participate there yet, but have seen that running on ones
 own for a few days have not yield any BitCoins througth mining
 yet.</p>
+
+<p>Update 2010-12-15: Found an <a
+href="http://inertia.posterous.com/reply-to-the-underground-economist-why-bitcoi">interesting
+criticism</a> of bitcoin.  Not quite sure how valid it is, but thought
+it was interesting to read.  The arguments presented seem to be
+equally valid for gold, which was used as a currency for many years.</p>
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