[bingboingbang]

There's a non-zero chance someone can just roll a new key and it happens to be yours, and poof, your money is gone with no recourse.

It's a tiny, infinitesimal chance: but it's a heck of a lot greater of a chance than the same thing happening with a bank account, especially the "no recourse" part.

[Jleagle]

I think you're misunderstanding how small the chance of creating the same wallet as someone else is.

There are 2^256 wallets. There are 2^72 grains of sand on earth.

The chance of your bank screwing up is a lot higher, by trillions.

[vkou]

Let's be realistic.

I'm a huge critic of the cult of crypto, but the odds of a key collision are smaller than the odds of <some highly improbable series of mistakes/coincidences/malice happening that result in you losing your money in the traditional banking system>.

The odds of a 'someone gets access to your account/wallet and instantly drains it with no recourse' are much higher in the crypto space, as the author of the post experienced.

[beeflet]

The odds of the bank making an error related to your account and crediting you money is far greater than the odds of generating the same keypair as someone else.