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by damian2000 3208 days ago
Even if you're correct on all fronts, there is an unfortunate expectation in the cryptocurrency world that this sort of shit is expected, and it makes the product stronger.

Pretty much every exchange has been hacked at one time or another. Ethereum itself had a vulnerability, and they just forked it. Parity, the ethereum wallet software, had a vulnerability that put millions up for grabs .. the equivalent of a function like 'transferCoin' was made public instead of private.

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I think that Iota is different here. Ethereum has a lot of issues, but it is not unfixably broken in any fundamental way. Iota is unfixably broken in multiple fundamental ways.