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Due to the unregulated, decentralised environment in which they operate, cryptocurrencies are under constant threat of attack. Due to the fact they have money,
by ryanmarsh 9y ago
Due to the unregulated, decentralised environment in which they operate, cryptocurrencies are under constant threat of attack.
Due to the fact they have money, financial systems are under constant threat of theft and fraud.
FTFY
- kolinko 9y agoAlso, such attacks make the system more robust in long term. Kind of like open source systems end up safer long term, because every single day people are trying to find bugs in their source codes.
- posterboy 9y agoexcept that every update introduces two new buggy features for each bugfix, while the usability is not always great except where copied from existing solutions