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Re:The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $... by gruez on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:00AM (#23690723)
It's not limited to cryptocurrency. eg. companies losing millions from phishing https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/phishing-email-scam-stole-10...
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Re:The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $... by andrewzah on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:14AM (#23690892)
The point is that there are options available to you when you use i.e. a credit card to spend money, versus bitcoin. With btc you will never, ever have a chance of getting it back once it's spent or if someone takes control of your wallet.

To be fair, debit cards and wire transfers have a similar issue. However there are still ways to get your money back in some situations.

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