Top Bitcoin dev gets owned

Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by woodruffw on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:07PM (#34211537)

This completely talks past what the person you're replying to is saying: it doesn't matter if "hardware based security is [...] the only way," because its conspicuous absence indicates that even the experts fail to meet the onerous requirements placed on them by cryptocurrency.

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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by bena on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:48PM (#34211898)

Yeah, this only highlights how ridiculous the requirements are.

The system needs to be tolerant of failures and faults of multiple natures. And cryptocurrency is very intolerant or many types of failures and faults.

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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by psychphysic on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:34AM (#34216426)

Well his PGP key was compromised too.

So why is crypto the only thing getting attention?

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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by woodruffw on Monday January 02, 2023 @02:54PM (#34222795)

My speculation there would be that PGP's usability weaknesses have been known for decades, and so there isn't all that much to be said about it.

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