Re:Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds
by caylus on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @10:43AM
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While I agree making a bad loan is the most likely reason for a bank to lose deposits, I wouldn't go so far as to call it "the" reason.
Robbery, embezzlement, or natural disaster [1] can also result in loss of funds that would be covered by FDIC, and those risks exist for cryptocurrency too, albeit in somewhat different forms.
Robbery, embezzlement, or natural disaster [1] can also result in loss of funds that would be covered by FDIC, and those risks exist for cryptocurrency too, albeit in somewhat different forms.
[1]: see this paper, which found that "disaster damages play a significant role in bank failures": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2506710