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Re:Instawallet Hacked by nym on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @03:49PM (#5488554)
The bitcoin community spends a ton of time trying to educate people on cold-storage wallets and two-factor authentication for online wallets.

MtGox has even given away free YubiKeys in the past to help keep people's accounts secure. Does Chase or BofA anyone else offer that kind of security? :)

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120215.html

Re:Instawallet Hacked by lhc- on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @03:56PM (#5488616)
The thing is, Chase and BoA are often capable of reversing fraud and catching the people behind it. Bitcoins don't really allow for that sort of restitution.
Re:Instawallet Hacked by tensafefrogs on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:48PM (#5488969)
Bitcoin is not a bank, and does not replace banks.

There's nothing stopping anyone from setting up a bank that handles your bitcoin transactions, and therefore can reverse transactions between two parties.

Replace "Bitcoin" with "Dollar" and you see how strange your statement is.

Re:Instawallet Hacked by jarek on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:03PM (#5489048)
I think the issue would be more that bitcoin is philosophically incompatible with services like that.

Bitcoin is anonymous, so I could transfer my money to my account at another bank, report fraud, and the bank could never know unless the other bank told them. If the other bank tells them, or you set up a centralized register of transfers or accounts, you're just mirroring the current systems.

Bitcoin doesn't have The Man, so there's no motivation not to do so fraudulently - what's the worst that happens if a bank realizes you're trying to defraud them? You've already moved your money elsewhere.

Re:Instawallet Hacked by eli on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:17PM (#5488749)
Yes, they do. https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/online-mobile-banking-...

Chase has a thing where it texts you a code as well.

Re:Instawallet Hacked by foobarqux on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:39PM (#5489747)
interactive brokers has various type of two factor authentication depending on how much money you have stored with them.
Re:Instawallet Hacked by codesuela on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:24PM (#5489227)
dont know bout the US but in Germany every bank requires 2FA for transfers