On: Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself

[stavros]

> If you don't need to ask permission to spend your money, then neither does anyone else need permission to spend your money.

I feel like this sentence doesn't know how cryptocurrency or cash works.

[ben_w → stavros]

Keys, like cash, can be stolen.

Hackers steal money from a bank account, if it's the bank's fault it was possible, the bank makes you whole.

[stavros → ben_w]

Yes, they can be stolen. I trust myself more to hold my keys than I trust the bank to always allow me to spend my money, though. I've never lost my keys, but I have had my bank not allow me to spend my money.