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    Gleb Gamow
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    March 19, 2016, 02:02:48 AM
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     Right this moment Im sure people are looking to replicate this attack elsewhere, does shapeshift avoid this by lining up contracts not holding the funds itself Im not sure

    They do to some extent. Even if shapeshift has to hold some reserves for faster trading that's still far less than when users start treating an exchange as an online wallet.

    However Cryptsy's issue - if we believe the official story, which is shaky at best - wasn't really the centralized nature of the exchange. It was the sheer stupidity of holding 10k+ BTC in "warm" wallets. Any properly operating exchange should not sacrifice security for convenience and should not put more funds at risk than is absolutely necessary to keep in the hot wallet at any given time. Which can still become a big issue if it goes unnoticed for a long period, e.g. Bitstamp hack, so obviously it has to be done with all sorts of other alerts and precautions,

    Funny how the funds got "warm" after Team Cryptsy had just announced that funds weren't online (cold wallet/storage) and an audit had just taken place, thus the site was safe and ready to accept more moneys into the system.

    Funny, still, how Paul Vernon claims in this blog that spending was cut back due to the hack, but a ~U$1.3M home was purchased for him and his retarded wife and two retarded kids, retarded because that's the ONLY reason I can think of for the honorable Paul Vernon to leave his loving family for another Chinese piece of ass not as retarded having a normal kid that may or may not be sucking his new daddy's dick.
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