Is it really that hard to prevent hackers from hacking exchanges, wallets and God knows what other methods they use...
I mean how on earth is crypto supposed to flourish if it's so venerable to hackers?
Every month a huge hack happens and totally destroys the crypto image yet again.
At this rate, bitcoin will go to $1 as it gets hacked every day.
Is it possible to take simple precautions to protect against hackers?
For a so called "unhackable" wallet,private key ect, it seems to be a cake walk for any hacker.
Sorry for the rant, it's just irritating to see crypto slowly dying because of hacks.
I don't think crypto is constantly getting hacked, let alone "slowly dying" because of hacks. If anything, hacks make it stronger, as they both expose weak projects and tell future ones what to be vary of.
As for the exchanges, they aren't exactly built "the way Satoshi envisioned it"; they are centralized entities that have plenty of weak points which a malicious player can abuse. This goes against the decentralized principles of cryptocurrency. Which is why DEX's are looking poised to take over the future.
Even so, the biggest "weak point" of crypto in general are the people. Most "hacks" happen as phishing attacks, when someone gets tricked into downloading tracking malware or posts their private information (private keys or logins into their e-mails) into a phishing website. This is in no way the fault of crypto and shouldn't be looked at as the fault of the code. Of course, you have badly coded projects like Verge, but they are bad thanks to humans badly coding them and not because there is something inherently wrong with crypto.
So yeah, the hacks can be seen as something positive in the bigger picture. They will expose "the weak" and allow "the strong" to learn, adapt and survive, at the cost of some naive people losing money sadly. But hey, don't be naive and you'll be peachy.