You are comparing apples to oranges.
Plenty (all?) bitcoin exchanges have been hacked and their coins never recovered. You do not need to 'hack' the blockchain to steal bitcoins.
Plenty (all?) bitcoin exchanges have been hacked and their coins never recovered. You do not need to 'hack' the blockchain to steal bitcoins.
We are discussing the security of decentralized systems, aka the blockchain.
The thing about security is that you just need to exploit one weak link in the chain.
The thing about security is that you just need to exploit one weak link in the chain.
Again, we're talking about decentralized systems as a whole. Individuals can be targetted/phished/scammed in any system. What is the weak systematic link in Bitcoin that can be exploited?