Overview
Bitcoin’s algoritms are robust, but the same cannot be said of the external Bitcoin ecosystem that most users depend on.
The weaknesses of the Bitcoin ecosystem are often neglected or overlooked by Bitcoin champions, and institutional regulations are dismissed as wasteful intrusions. Yet these external entities, like the exchanges that most Bitcoin users employ, represent risks that often defeat the security benefits of the core Bitcoin architecture.
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