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by tim333 2059 days ago
> orders of magnitude cheaper to store

Unless your exchange gets hacked, you lose your keys or similar

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Well its not like no-one ever steals actual money/gold/whatever
>Chainalysis, a research firm that analyzes activity across different cryptocurrency markets, estimates that between 2.78 and 3.79 million, or between 17 and 23 percent of all bitcoins have been lost.

It's more