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All it takes is someone finding a bug in a popular client that gives control over transactions. A bitcoin stealing worm seems inevitable.

• eksith 13y ago
  Then it's still the same as a trojan surreptitiously stealing bank account info and siphoning off the funds. I think we have to face the fact that digital currency (fiat terms) and Bitcoin are essentially the same except for the means of generation. "Money" is printed when physically present, but once stored in the bank, that's converted to bits and the physical notes (depending on wear) are destroyed. Also the fact that there's no equivalent for FDIC et al. for Bitcoin losses.