Coinkite CEO Says Seeing People Lose Bitcoins Upsets Him Because

Coinkite CEO Says Seeing People Lose Bitcoins Upsets Him Because "It Doesn't Have To Be That Way!"

There isn't a month that goes by where someone doesn't take to their computer and check their balance in their bitcoin wallet, only to find that there's something missing. It happened with Mt. Gox; it happened with MintPal and it even happened recently with Blockchain.info, a wallet that was thought to be a highly secure form of storing coins. These thefts happen due to vulnerabilities in the systems implemented by these companies (not the Bitcoin protocol itself), but the bitcoin ecosystem doesn't see many changes and innovations to solve the problem. One of the major problems, of course,....


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