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Nobody can steal my crypto, I don't need a physical vault for gold coins, and I can buy stuff around the world in minutes. Am in North America.

reducesuffering 3y ago
You sure? Bitcoin Core dev lost all his 200 BTC crypto via hack... Hope you understand bitcoin security better than him. https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-core-developer-claims-to-have-lost-200-btc-in-hack https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-core-developer-claims...
- landemva 3y ago
  Really like how the whataboutism adds useful thoughts. That guy claimed his cloud VM was compromised. Few would consider that to be a secure way to keep a secret, and it could be a boating accident story. Boating accidents do happen.
  - Vanit 3y ago
    Your reaction is how everyone reacts before their own crypto is stolen. I don't know how crypto proponents think they can simultaneously wave away this level of fraud but still seek economy-wide adoption.
    - landemva 3y ago
      His cloud VM was supposedly hacked. That was not hacking crypto, it was hacking a generic cloud account. And why presume what I may or may not be advocating?
  - reducesuffering 3y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37268750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37268750 Hope you're diversified...
troupo 3y ago
> Nobody can steal my crypto, "Once the victim connected their crypto wallet, it was immediately drained of $900,000 in the USDC stablecoin" "The "interchain stablecoin protocol" Harbor announced on August 19 that they had experienced an exploit that drained some of the funds in the project pools" "The Exactly Protocol, an attempt to "decentralize the credit market" built on the Optimism layer-2 network, was exploited. An attacker has siphoned more than 7,160 ETH (~$12 million) from the project" "Blockchain Capital co-founder Bart Stephens has filed a lawsuit against as-yet-unknown individuals who he says stole $6.3 million in cryptocurrency from him." "Exploiters stole around 471 ETH (~$857,000) from the RocketSwap project " "The Zunami Protocol stablecoin-focused yield farming aggregator was exploited for more than $2.1 million" > I can buy stuff around the world in minutes I've been able to do that in seconds for nearly 20 years now. Was/am in Eastern Europe, Turkey, EU. No crypto necessary

reducesuffering 3y ago

You sure? Bitcoin Core dev lost all his 200 BTC crypto via hack... Hope you understand bitcoin security better than him. https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-core-developer-claims-to-have-lost-200-btc-in-hack https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-core-developer-claims...

landemva 3y ago
Really like how the whataboutism adds useful thoughts. That guy claimed his cloud VM was compromised. Few would consider that to be a secure way to keep a secret, and it could be a boating accident story. Boating accidents do happen.
- Vanit 3y ago
  Your reaction is how everyone reacts before their own crypto is stolen. I don't know how crypto proponents think they can simultaneously wave away this level of fraud but still seek economy-wide adoption.
  - landemva 3y ago
    His cloud VM was supposedly hacked. That was not hacking crypto, it was hacking a generic cloud account. And why presume what I may or may not be advocating?
- reducesuffering 3y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37268750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37268750 Hope you're diversified...

troupo 3y ago

> Nobody can steal my crypto, "Once the victim connected their crypto wallet, it was immediately drained of $900,000 in the USDC stablecoin" "The "interchain stablecoin protocol" Harbor announced on August 19 that they had experienced an exploit that drained some of the funds in the project pools" "The Exactly Protocol, an attempt to "decentralize the credit market" built on the Optimism layer-2 network, was exploited. An attacker has siphoned more than 7,160 ETH (~$12 million) from the project" "Blockchain Capital co-founder Bart Stephens has filed a lawsuit against as-yet-unknown individuals who he says stole $6.3 million in cryptocurrency from him." "Exploiters stole around 471 ETH (~$857,000) from the RocketSwap project " "The Zunami Protocol stablecoin-focused yield farming aggregator was exploited for more than $2.1 million" > I can buy stuff around the world in minutes I've been able to do that in seconds for nearly 20 years now. Was/am in Eastern Europe, Turkey, EU. No crypto necessary