I think at this point we can just point to the trilemma and say it's not scalable?

What will crash down bitcoin will be able to generate enough hashrates that can reverse many transactions back in a 51% attack. But with the hashrates bitcoin is having, that is not possible. Anyone that wants to do that will only waste time and resources and yet still fail. That is where I see vulnerability can come but which is very hard to do.

I think the assurance is derived in it's open source nature from the blockchain. Nothing seem to be hidden from any body and that transparency alone gives users rest.

If there was any critical flaw as we speak right now the antagonists of bitcoin won't waste a secomd to alarm it just to creat fear that would lead to it's downfall. So since there has not been such alarm even now then there's no such flaw. However we ain't saying bitcoin is perfect.

just as I said above, nothing of human invention is perfect but when a development is working smoothly we've got to appreciate it for what it is.

There was a bug in 2010, which made 184 billion BTC to be created out of nothing


This bug is even documented in the forum, and satoshi himself fixed it

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/823.0

We have discussed this many times in this forum and there are many topics about it. As you can see, the OP is a newbie and I think this topic was created only to increase the activity of the OP.

But about the Bitcoin bug. Bitcoin has been launched for more than 10 years and has evolved a lot over the years. But so far no one has been able to create/find a vulnerability in the Bitcoin system. Is more than 10 years not enough time?

Nah, I don't think it's possible that no one till now has not seen the bug if there is any. I once saw a video on IG where the dude asked the other dude that did CIA made the BTC, he said they found some loopholes in the codes (IDK remember the exact term) but then he also mentioned that out of all the codes, Satoshi has made that one part of code not vulnerable to any hack. So it means no one can really get there hands on your BTC.

Plus, we all know that Blockchain is made of chain of blocks and a small change in some 12 block, while you are at block 19 or whatever, the whole chain of blocks has to bee validated again from all the validators and miners as well. Which is not an easy thing. So I would say there is nothing to be worried about. Our funds are save, we are not using CBDC's assets. But still quantum computing is being introduced now and many people say the encryptions of BTC are vulnerable to these computers. Which I think it is not.

There are so many of us out here. Sure not all of us are developers but many developers have checked and are still constantly trying to see where bitcoin can improve.

The thing is no one has seen a bug that’s probably because the bug has not taken effect yet. Bitcoin is not perfect so are people and we can’t see some things sometimes until it’s too late. Right now bitcoin has a lot of issues still that developers are trying to solve so better to focus on existing problems than create new ones.

In 2009 and next couple of years, there was more fear about bug, collapse of Bitcoin network, 51% attacks than now, 15 years after the Genesis block birthday.

With 15 years, Bitcoin blockchain has been testing many times and it is more secured, more safer to use now. 15 years later in 2039, the same question will be asked but if I will say the same in 2039, it is safer than in 2024 or in 2009, 2010.

It's not perfect as other things, no perfection.

Who said Bitcoin is perfect? it's open source, so anyone can check the code at anytime and any condition https://github.com/bitcoin

We're the reason why Bitcoin can survive till now, we can give contribution to the project by purchasing the coin, run full node, making the network secure, propose new feature,
find or fixing the bug.

The github is active everyday, means there's always someone trying to learn about Bitcoin and contribute the technical thing https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulls

No it's not perfect and there are a lot of bugs have been found throughout it's existence. Here is the record,

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures

And here is one of the latest critical bugs discovered: Critical Bug Found in Bitcoin Core Invokes the Multiple Client Argument.

There is no perfect system, even when Bill Gates was developing some of Microsoft's early software, there's a lot of bugs found. The good thing is that before Satoshi left, Bitcoin was already up and running seamlessly with few bugs found.