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Re:Show HN: A Marketing Bot That Sells OpenStack Cloud Insta... by kordless on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @12:51PM (#8069979)
The expectations that we'll eliminate 100% of fraud are fundamentally flawed. Fraud will always exist. The Bitcoin blockchain provides a good amount of fraud resistant technologies that can be used by external systems to help lower the incidences of fraud in their own systems. Unfortunately, some systems that have connected to the blockchain have been vulnerable to being broken into, which is where the coins usually get stolen. It's companies like Coinbase and Blockchain that carry that responsibility for the rest of us, and for that, I'm grateful.

I would hazard the amount of fraud will go down considerably (compared to credit card fraud) once we've sorted around the best practices for securing your coin.

Re:Show HN: A Marketing Bot That Sells OpenStack Cloud Insta... by al2o3cr on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @06:58PM (#8072054)
If we always applied best practices for CC data, there wouldn't be much fraud with that system either. Sadly, we live in the real world.
Re:Show HN: A Marketing Bot That Sells OpenStack Cloud Insta... by onnoonno on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @02:49AM (#8073189)
Isn't the problem of someone breaking in and stealing coins avoidable in the 'selling sth. for coins' scenario by just looking for incoming payments to a particular address, but without ever keeping any secret keys on a live system?
Re:Show HN: A Marketing Bot That Sells OpenStack Cloud Insta... by judk on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @03:47PM (#8071181)
> once we've sorted around the best practices for securing your coin.

The same theory applies to credit cards (single-use card numbers, etc)