[Cryptography] IBM looking at adopting bitcoin technology for major currencies

[John Levine]

In article <0F84F471-A996-41ED-AF73-30C53B6583AD at me.com> you write:
>Did you hear about how the Fed would not allow Germany to visit to audit their
>gold, eventually, German personnel were allowed to stand in the door way of only
>one of their vaults, but not enter and randomly inspect their bars. ...  

Yes.  Great story, other than the minor detail that it is mostly
false.  Here's a story from Der Speigel, an actual news magazine, that
is a lot more credible than the nonsense you find on gold bug blogs. 

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-politicians-demand-to-see-gold-in-us-federal-reserve-a-864068.html

Also see this story in which German gold bug Peter Boehringer has an
impressive array of conspiracy theories about missing German gold,
except that it's all there.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-05/germany-s-gold-repatriation-activist-peter-boehringer-gets-results

R's,
John