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yieldcrv01/22/20251 replyview on HN

a lot of known best practices were not followed in 2013.

Every advancement in crypto was done after the government made a move. And all subsequent moves netted the government less.

Now it takes more agencies to seize darknet markets, and most merchants and consumers get their money back because it was a multisignature transaction and the server stored nothing. Even domains have been seized back from the government.

The crypto space calls it "antifragility", as in the idea - and now history - that the asset class and infrastructure improves under pressure.


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dmix01/22/2025

> a lot of known best practices were not followed in 2013.

like Secret Service and DEA agents getting immediately caught trying to steal Bitcoin from Silk Road?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/03/30/federal-agent...

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