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Re:BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company ba... by jl6 on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:36PM (#25635862)
> since despite increased incentives to "hack" it, no exploits happened

Bitcoin really has been absurdly resistant to security flaws given the immense and growing incentive to break it. How is it this good when every other major software vendor in the world has to issue weekly security patches?

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Re:BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company ba... by Sargos on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:36PM (#25639244)
Bitcoin is not a software program it's a protocol. It's better to compare it to HTTP which also hasn't had exploits.
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Re:BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company ba... by jl6 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @03:07AM (#25643295)
Since we’re interested in security features, an even better comparison would be with SSL, which has had many exploits.

But Bitcoin also has a primary implementation which is software and that hasn’t had any major heists either.

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