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Way to twist what he meant. Here, I'll paraphrase it the way I've been saying it myself more than once in the past:
1) Gox was, and still is, hugely bearish. Trust in crypto lost by "Bitcoin outsiders" is significant.
2) Forumites shrug off gox as "just another exchange that blew up", "should have kept your coins in a paper wallet, hur dur". They are most likely wrong about that.
Where's the contradicton in those two statements?
1) Gox was, and still is, hugely bearish. Trust in crypto lost by "Bitcoin outsiders" is significant.
2) Forumites shrug off gox as "just another exchange that blew up", "should have kept your coins in a paper wallet, hur dur". They are most likely wrong about that.
Where's the contradicton in those two statements?
ya here is the thing.
1. i don't trust bitcoin to my windoze computer locally (somebody hacked my bct-e account once & thank god i got it back)
2. so. right now my few bitcoins are in coinbase with 2fa. if i had enough i would do offline wallet blah blah blah. but i'm less noobish than grandma.
3. everybody says you need to do (list of pain in the ass instructions ... "Install Ubuntu. Don't install anything else. Blah blah blah blah") to keep ur bitcoins safe.
4. well guess what? if it's THAT MUCH OF A PAIN IN THE ASS why in the HELL should I use it or expect it to be the "currency of the future" people say "bitcoin has never been hacked". well u know what? a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. gox, scammers, hackers, insecure operating systems are freakinly MASSIVE weak links in the bitcoin ecosystem
for those of you who laugh at us who don't want to install ubuntu and print paper wallets and blah blah blah (and u snicker when we lose our money) we don't ever buy anymore bitcoins. so laugh away - but without grandma's money you ain't going to the moon
For most people's wallets, its good enough to
1. buy smartphone
2. don't root or jailbreak
3. there is no 3.
if you have over 100 coins, then learn linux.
