> Stories like this have been appearing pretty regularly on HN This is literally extrapolating from outliers (notable news stories about fraud or mishaps) to m

> Stories like this have been appearing pretty regularly on HN This is literally extrapolating from outliers (notable news stories about fraud or mishaps) to make predictions about whole data sets (reliability of transactions using the US Dollar). No one can prove to you that dollars are safe if you don't believe it. But no one has come up with a more reliable alternative yet, and BTC is laughably far down the list of challengers.