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intended • today at 7:37 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

The topic is bitcoin being hacked and stolen. I do not think this outcome was the intended outcome for users?

Perhaps I am missing your argument.


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nicman23 • today at 8:23 AM

no. binance was hacked, again, again. the wallet was not. else they would have stolen only from the btc wallet.

not your keys not your bitcoin

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wongarsu • today at 8:35 AM

The intention of bitcoin was to have a digital medium with similar properties as cash: no need to trust anyone else, and you can exchange it with whoever you want. Cash can also be stolen if someone takes your wallet, leaving you no recourse except the law

Imho Bitcoins being stolen is not at all Bitcoin being "bent, broken, or subverted", it's just a natural consequence of the design goals. If an unrelated third party could block my bitcoins by accusing me of terrorism that would be subverting the system, and such things have not happened to bitcoin-core (but have happened in other parts of the bitcoin ecosystem)

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