> This is downright silly. Might as well say if an asteroid hit the earth your money probably isn't safe. Um, no? Flash memory cells hold a voltage. That volta

> This is downright silly. Might as well say if an asteroid hit the earth your money probably isn't safe. Um, no? Flash memory cells hold a voltage. That voltage is not going to stay in there forever. It eventually leaks out and your data is corrupted. This isn't usually a problem because the cells refresh when powered on, and most people don't use flash drives for a decade -- but put it in a deposit box for more than a few years and you better cross your fingers when you plug it back in. "During normal operation, the flash drive firmware routinely refreshes the cells to restore lost charge. However, when the flash is not powered the state of charge will naturally degrade with time."[0] > Than what? Than nothing. My point was that people say 'if you bought bitcoin you couldn't have lost money because on aggregate it has gone up'. This is incredibly misleading because many people bought bitcoin and lost it in an exchange collapse, or families had their investments disappear because the person managing it died or the wallet got phished with no recourse, or they forgot the passphrase, etc. This is a risk that is not mentioned when people proclaim the great investment that is bitcoin. > You haven't presented any evidence that nobody is taking it into account. Um... the person I responded to? [0] https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/documentation/supplemental/12/understanding-life-expectancy-of-flash-storage.html https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/documentation/supplemental/...