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Re:DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users by csomar on Friday October 01, 2021 @09:48AM (#28718377)
That's very far from the truth. Here is an incidence of a hack, ripping $81m from a poor country: https://www.wired.com/2016/05/insane-81m-bangladesh-bank-hei...

Here is $24bn of losses due to credit card fraud: https://shiftprocessing.com/credit-card-fraud-statistics/

If the bank bears the losses, then the burden is indirectly distributed to all its customers/shareholders. If the government bears the losses, then its distributed to the whole economy.

> Bank runs like from the movie "Its a wonderful life" - they don't happen anymore.

In the Western developed countries. There are billions living in countries/systems where currencies are devaluating like hell and where banking regulations is looser than crypto.

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