> Keeping Bitcoin requires you to be really good at both storing a specific string of bits, and also keeping that string of bits secret. Even for a really skilled sysadmin, trusting your life's savings to your own ability to secure and back up a single string doesn't strike me as very wise - compromise or misplacement of digital secrets is almost inevitable.
This is one of the best & simplest arguments I've heard against bitcoin-as-a-mainstream-phenomenon for a long time.
This is one of the best & simplest arguments I've heard against bitcoin-as-a-mainstream-phenomenon for a long time.