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Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin by Karunamon on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @09:19AM (#15592987)
This isn’t a problem with cash - why is it a problem with bitcoin?

I think this is a perception problem. BTC isn’t an online credit card, it’s online cash. With everything that implies.

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Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin by s17n on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:35PM (#15595896)
It's not a "problem with bitcoin" per se, it just means that bitcoin will have to be supported by banks in the same way that cash is - your assets are kept in an account that the bank is responsible for and you only hold a small amount of cash at a time - for it to be useful to people.
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