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Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by ses1984 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @06:50AM (#21619823)
>there's a lot of faith in maintainers to stay ahead of the threats.

Isn't that true of basically all software?

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Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by notahacker on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:26AM (#21619999)
Not all software purports to be a store of value
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Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by ses1984 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @08:11AM (#21620194)
It doesn't have to be a store of value to be critical to fortunes greater than bitcoin wallets, or even life and limb.
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Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by hanniabu on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:15PM (#21621763)
Banking software and all the algorithms that power the global economy are vulnerable. Every 10 years or so there's a major crash because of dinne oversight and the result is "this will never happen again", yet it continues to happen again.

At least here we can build an economy off an economic model instead of what we do now which is build an economic model off of the economy.

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