What Makes the Bitcoin Blockchain Secure?
Name a company, and, odds are, it’s been hacked. With 71% of hacks being financially motivated, it begs the question: Can the Bitcoin network be hacked, too? After all, it’s a tempting target.
We never like to say never at Decrypt, but the answer is: pretty much no. Indeed, Bitcoin has proven remarkably resilient to shocks and stresses throughout its history. And while crypto exchanges have been hacked with depressing frequency, and their stores of Bitcoin redistributed, actually compromising an...