It is indeed a big risk seeing those news about exchanges being hacked and millions are being taken and I also feel the same way that personal information might have been taken to but I also have a feeling that the people behind these hacks might be a group linked to the owner of these exchanges also. You're dealing with huge amount of money and for sure your priority should be its security so for me that doesn't make sense and will only lead to one conclusion though nothing was proven yet that it might have been an inside job.

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Really hoping this brings the real silent coins- Monero etc- to the forefront. Feel like they've somewhat undervalued at the moment.

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Buen post amigo.

Decentralized exchanges are going to become more and more popular!

Interesting article! Checkout @cryptobroye for more bitcoin info and analysis. Im sure there's a lot we can learn from each other!

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Still feel kind of cool if you got in early... ice hasn't even thawed out yet lol

If half of you is on fire and the other half is in ice.... your a perfect temperature on average ;p

Nice logical assessment of a potential future, that  we could easily see play out

Very interesting points @ontofractal. Thanks for sharing! I’m just learning about crypto, and this is really great to counterbalance what I’ve been reading. Cheers!

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Mahalos for the insightful article. The amount of major hacks in crypto is important in the stability of the platform, and people's confidence in it. While the money stolen is high, the number of compromised accounts pales in comparison to the online, and retail, hacks (ie Target, Equifax, ...). Thus the problem becomes, what do we do when all out PII is out on the Net? Does the world become like the movie The Circle, where nothing is private.

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I think Equifax beat them to the punch

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True
That's why I:
1) Using only Decentralized EXchanges with 0 personal data given
2) Considering all my nonprivate crypto assets - compromised already

The privacy is a must for every crypto witch aimed to be digital cash.

Whats your favorite privatecoin @ontofractal ?

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Exchanges are definitely the weak link in privacy. Great write up.

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There are a number of glaring issues that the crypto community is choosing to ignore. I recently wrote an article on the issue of crypto in Africa. Look past the illusion: https://steemit.com/blockchain/@rebeccamqamelo/the-messianic-symbol-gets-real-blockchain-in-africa

What you aren't taking into account is that none of the major exchanges tha got hacked had major KYC (know your customer) standards. As such it is very unlikely that any of them had a sizeable amount of legitimate personal data, so even if you are right, its little to be scared about. Now if this sort of thing happened to Coinbase or Bittrex or another major exchange that keeps up with KYC standards, then we will have something to worry about.

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I stick with Poloniex, and it has been good to me

Anyone online for any real length of time will have to face hacking. Even in crypto, it's just par for the course. Maybe this will change in the future.

Thank you for the thoughtful piece about complacency and I will study this issue to see how I can personally contribute education and motivation to people to protect this new platform.

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I 'use' OpenLegdger; but, unfortunately, have not been able to access the exchange due to continuing maintenance issues. 

That said, I really like the platform's layout, and expect once it gets its 'sea legs' should be one of the better exchanges for trading. I hope, too, that there will be an increase in trading pairs once it is able to stand up to the weight of new users.

Peace.

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Do you give me leason about this

Very good picture and your story