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After all, it's not like people breaking into computers and stealing stuff from them is anywhere near as common as people breaking into houses or bank vaults.


I don't have the stats, but I actually would guess that robbery is way more common than hacking personal computers which results in the retrieval of useful information.


I make it a habit not to bet. But if I were a betting man I'd take you up on that. Hacking personal computers is a huge blackmarket industry and it costs society a lot of money. The average person (i.e. not you or me) don't even know they've been hacked and are just joined to some botnet without their knowledge. But a hacked computer is a hacked computer and if the hacker want's the bitcoin wallet they can get it.

Good luck getting the bitcoin back after that.


Hardware wallets?




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