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> since despite increased incentives to "hack" it, no exploits happened Bitcoin really has been absurdly resistant to security flaws given the immense and grow
by jl6 6y ago
> since despite increased incentives to "hack" it, no exploits happened
Bitcoin really has been absurdly resistant to security flaws given the immense and growing incentive to break it. How is it this good when every other major software vendor in the world has to issue weekly security patches?
- Sargos 6y agoBitcoin is not a software program it's a protocol. It's better to compare it to HTTP which also hasn't had exploits.
- jl6 6y agoSince we’re interested in security features, an even better comparison would be with SSL, which has had many exploits. But Bitcoin also has a primary implementation which is software and that hasn’t had any major heists either.