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by chx 3123 days ago
This is the biggest hurdle to become mainstream: in the hustle to decentralize money, bitcoin hustlers have decentralized security and most people absolutely suck at (cyber)security. Previously perhaps you needed to reinstall Windows or even lost a few (or more than a few) documents but now you will lose this thing you paid for and the thief can easily turn into real money (and hard to track at that).