Centralized Exchanges are “Honeypots for Thieves”, Says Expert
Hackers exploit the middleman in centralized exchanges which is a central point of failure. No hacker can penetrate Bitsquare’s decentralized platform as they did with Bitfinex because of the presence of a middleman figure, says Mihail Mihaylov, Bitsquare’s Chief Decentralist. Mihaylov says to CoinTelegraph: “Traditional centralized exchanges are honeypots for thieves. With a single hack or through social engineering, a crook can get their hands on large sums of coins and a wealth of user data. This has already happened numerous times.” He explains ways in which Bitsquare is different from....
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