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Not all databases have transactions (eg mongo). Not all developers understand when to use them.

• jlgaddis 11y ago
  Is it not a safe assumption that one would use an ACID-compliant RDBMS for something involving money?
  • derefr 11y ago
    You might throw up a little bit if you ever saw a piece of Bitcoin exchange software.
    • __z 11y ago
      I guess Mtgox originally sent passwords in the query string... http://i.imgur.com/xMeW43a.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xMeW43a.jpg https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=444.0 https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=444.0
  • fleitz 11y ago
    You know what they say about assumptions, of course not, they use message queues for transactions and have a great queuing system built on acid databases