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by wmf 2329 days ago
People who lost 100% of their coins are probably wishing they had the option to buy some kind of insurance. But no, be your own bank. (Wait, don't real banks also have insurance?)
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Crypto is digital cash, not digital credit. If someone steals your physical wallet, you generally aren’t getting that cash back. Can we please dispense with this kind of hyperbolic nonsense?
You wouldn't carry large sums of cash on your person, so why are people considering large piles of cryptocurrency?
People actually carry large sums in many places where credit cards aren't prevalent. Like Japan.
The analogy isn't credit. It's a bank. I doubt people carry much of a percent of their total Yen wealth in their pockets.