45% of bitcoin exchanges fail, study finds
Investing in bitcoins can be risky. So it's probably not surprising that starting a bitcoin currency exchange is risky too. Online bitcoin exchanges have a failure rate of 45 percent, with customer balances often wiped out, a new study has found. "Bitcoin is expressly designed to be completely decentralized with no single points of control," says Tyler Moore, one of two US computer scientists who worked on the research study. "Yet currency exchanges have become de facto central authorities, and their success or failure drives bitcoin's success or failure." Moore and Nicolas Christin looked....
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