well most of this supposed technical error are as a result of humans errors.

Not necessarily
A persons error only affects the person not the blockchain
So yeah Bitcoin threat are usually around the above and as well as the QC risk that's open in the future.

Yes, core protocol is actually quite solid and reliable. And weakest link in this entire security chain is human being. I think that more BTC has been permanently lost due to forgotten seed, corrupted backup and sending fund to wrong addresses than was lost in Mt Gox incident or other exchange hack. In many major modern hack, hacker doesn't even need to breach system, manipulating people into approving malicious transaction gets their job done.

So chain doesn’t care if you click wrong link or lost your paper. Self custody forces personal responsibility and most of we aren't ready for it.

Human mistakes is a threat to the users/people's own holdings rather than the entire network just as some posts above mine already clarified.

When a user loses his bitcoin because of carelessness, scams are poor backup, it is only a loss to him but when a hacker attacks an exchange or when the government ban bitcoin activities, it will affect many people hence the reason why they’re considered the big threats to Bitcoin.


That’s what comes with Self-Custody, you have to take full responsibility for your coins because you have full control over them.

You think the biggest threat to Bitcoin is when individuals lose their individual bitcoins and not when their is a big hack where lots of users lose their bitcoins all at once? If an individual loses his bitcoins, it is out of his own negligence or carelessness, the result is that only his bitcoins will be lost, no one else' bitcoin will be lost too.

Once there is a major hack that affects millions of users at thesame time, it will create panic and many people who have trusted bitcoin for years will lose confidence in it. It will truly affect how people see bitcoin.

Anything that threatens Bitcoin's security is a major threat.

I think it's a Yes for me.  Bitcoin users should be extremely cautious and careful to avoid mistake . And stay conscious in protecting your seed and private keys.

Having full custody to your asset is one of the best thing that comes with Bitcoin . But that custody comes with a lot of responsibilities. The safety of your assets now rest in your own hands,  you’re now your own bank. For the past years many have lost their bitcoin in a very silly way , won’t blame them only few folks that would have believed that bitcoin will come this far both in adoption and price growth .

But if we are talking of threats to Bitcoin , we have consensus bugs, mining attacks ,cryptographic weaknesses, censorship, excessive centralization, severe regulatory attacks . While threats to Bitcoin users are phishing , seed phrase-loss, private key theft ,scams , exchange failures and user mistakes . But know this Bitcoin is here to stay .

I have a small hope that people will end up becoming more independent from things in the future, but my hope is heavily contradicted all the time by the same people moving closer and closer to things that can only make them more dependent on Third Parties.  From people wanting to rent Apple devices to people becoming addicted to 'AI' and most of them nowadays borrowing money from Banks, and so many other things, they do not really show signs that they are ready to think on their own but the exact opposite.

Human error is not really a threat to Bitcoin, unless that human error comes in the form of a really bad development mistake that sneaks through all eyes and ends up in a new release.  Although that would probably be fixed in less than a day and be just another 'Zero Day Attack', although it can do damage.  Human error is a threat to Bitcoiners instead, as you have to make sure you do not make mistakes that put your Bitcoin at risk.  There are enough resources out there to make sure that risk is managed and prevented however, so I attribute most of these human errors as simple negligence.  Unless the Bitcoin owner does not have much of an idea how to use technology, managing the risk of losing your Bitcoin to your own error is in my opinion very close to managing the risk of downloading an infected executable off the Internet.  You have to know mostly basic computer and Internet education and then it becomes easy to prevent.

Threat? Threat for what? Extinction? The topic makes a good point, but saying human error is bitcoin's biggest threat is a bit of an overstatement. Lost seed phrases, phishing, and malicious transactions, yes they are really a risk. But protocol vulnerabilities, software bugs, and centralized exchange failures/hacks can also lead to significant losses which is bigger thread since it holds lots of amount and users.

It's not like everyone is making mistakes with their Bitcoin. So I don't think there's any real threat in that regard. Even though there might be people who make mistakes and lose their Bitcoin, I think the numbers aren't significant to pose a serious threat to Bitcoin.

For me, the real threat to Bitcoin is how more institutions are massively accumulating Bitcoin and starting to create the perception that holding an ETF = holding Bitcoin and that self-custody is a bad idea.