Offtopic sort of but I find it neccessary to be said:
Anyone having Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google+ or similar account or is using any of services provided by (major) corporations or other service providers who are backed by system
and is involved with cryptocoins at the same time is an idiot, period.
'idiot' is a technical term which probably does not apply. Fun though.
I'll agree with the statement, but with some modification. ...using,
for mission critical things, any of the services... It is unwise and probably impractical to avoid many of these services in 2013. But from a system design perspective, they should be treated as resources which have less reliability than might be desired. And a failure mode which will likely be associated with other system failures.
I would also point out that '(major) corporations' provide almost everyone with edge connectivity (your isp) as well as carry backbone traffic. And they have a pretty high degree of control over 'your' packets. So, if on is an 'idiot, period' for relying on '(major) corporations or other service providers', we are pretty much all idiots.
