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Re:PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shoppi... by tim333 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:26AM (#24848744)
> orders of magnitude cheaper to store

Unless your exchange gets hacked, you lose your keys or similar

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Re:PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shoppi... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:22PM (#24849315)
Well its not like no-one ever steals actual money/gold/whatever
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Re:PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shoppi... by tim333 on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:21AM (#24868679)
>Chainalysis, a research firm that analyzes activity across different cryptocurrency markets, estimates that between 2.78 and 3.79 million, or between 17 and 23 percent of all bitcoins have been lost.

It's more

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