logoalt Hacker News

slipwalkertoday at 12:41 PM8 repliesview on HN

but what sort of people keep their bitcoins on the exchange ? the whole point is about not being seizable by dirty governments...


Replies

pjc50today at 12:48 PM

Traders; low information investors; people who are not 100% confident in their personal infosec and not willing to lose their bitcoins on their own.

"Not being seizable" hasn't really worked out for bitcoiners who've been arrested. Or for that matter robbed at gunpoint.

show 2 replies
plopiloptoday at 1:17 PM

Pretty much everyone. There's a reason people lost money with ftx, Mt gox and other scams.

Managing your private keys is cumbersome, error prone, requires some computer literacy, the list goes on.

Tbh I have been kind of impressed by how fast L2 businesses brought back centralisation in every possible way. I guess it's more efficient for them.

In the same way, the internet was supposed to be decentralised, everyone being in charge of their own servers. But in practice nobody has the time to set up their own MX servers.

jubilantitoday at 1:59 PM

> but what sort of people keep their bitcoins on the exchange ? the whole point is about not being seizable by dirty governments...

For most people, cryptocurrency is just another stock market / betting app.

ajkjktoday at 3:25 PM

Most people don't care about that at all

lizardkingtoday at 1:15 PM

"Number go up" people

thesuitonymtoday at 2:56 PM

> not being seizable by dirty governments

If you believe that, I have some land to sell you

debesylatoday at 12:44 PM

Hype vibe investors, probably.

LtWorftoday at 1:00 PM

People who want to be scammed.