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manholio | 3 years ago

The crypto market is the trash, a decade old speculative bubble with zero real world applications.

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faeyanpiraat|3 years ago

It actually has a nice use case as a breach canary. Have an unprotected wallet stored on your machine with some btc on it (like 200-500 USD worth), and if you notice a transfer out from there, you can be sure your machine is compromised. This method was recently posted by a fellow HN member, unfortunately I forgot where.

danaris|3 years ago

Ah, yes, $200-500 USD, an amount of money that surely no one will ever miss, and everyone would feel perfectly fine throwing away as a "breach canary".

Never mind that that's, what, about a week's wages for many people?