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Re:The World's Biggest Wealth Manager Won't Touch Bitcoin by samsonradu on Friday November 17, 2017 @03:05PM (#15725543)
> Your coins are securely stored across computers all over the world.

Please lets not start this debate. Times and times again it has been proven that software is not secure. OpenSSL was also thought to be secure for quite some time too..

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Re:The World's Biggest Wealth Manager Won't Touch Bitcoin by XR0CSWV3h3kZWg on Friday November 17, 2017 @05:48PM (#15726631)
Agreed. In this case there is an implicit, very large, bug bounty that anyone can cash in. So far there has been one creation of new bitcoin bug and zero spending other people's bitcoin bugs.

That does not mean it's secure, but at this point it's looking more secure every day.

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Re:The World's Biggest Wealth Manager Won't Touch Bitcoin by samsonradu on Saturday November 18, 2017 @03:53AM (#15728309)
The more centralized bitcoin becomes, and it will, the more vulnerable it will be. As time goes by a few exchanges will become huge BTC storage centers. What if it’s an inside attack and someone steals the data from the servers? Is there any insurance/rollback mechanism in place?
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