Meanwhile, Bitcoin hasn’t had a single hack or a single hour of downtime since it started 15 years ago. Decentralization is the answer.

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    Bitcoin has been hacked so many times it isn’t even funny anymore, it’s just sad, including a $300 million hack just a few days ago.

    And hour of downtime? Bitcoin has also had that numerous times, where you haven’t been able to process exchanges at all for hours and hours.

    What an absolute load of crock. And you’re using an article literally saying not to use digital currency to justify using bitcoin?! This entire post is the exact opposite of truthful.

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      4 months ago

      Bitcoin has been hacked so many times it isn’t even funny anymore, it’s just sad, including a $300 million hack just a few days ago.

      Bitcoin has never been hacked. Nobody has ever been able to print money the protocol doesn’t allow nor spend money without the appropriate private key. People have had their Bitcoin stolen, which is like getting your wallet stolen IRL, but we don’t say ‘The USD got hacked’ or ‘The USD is insecure’ just because that happened.

      And hour of downtime? Bitcoin has also had that numerous times, where you haven’t been able to process exchanges at all for hours and hours.

      That’s not downtime, that’s congestion. It never stopped processing transactions. If you paid a high fee, you would go through immediately. And that’s happened rarely and doesn’t effect lightning transactions which are the ones you use if speed is a priority.

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    Bitcoin also processes a tiny fraction of a percent of global transactions and uses a ton of power in the process. Decentralization may be the answer, but Bitcoin definitely isn’t.