Quote from: deisik on June 16, 2017, 11:19:06 AM

Quote from: Gohs on August 07, 2016, 03:44:07 PM

I was just thinking that since Bitcoins is 100% on the internet, what would happen if the whole world adopts it and 20M bitcoins gets stolen by a genius similar to what happened to Bitfinex?

That's unlikely though not completely impossible

But you should first ask yourself whether Bitcoin is actually going to become the only currency used by the whole world. That's highly unlikely on its own. Even if we hypothetically assume that ("just for fun"), it would be more about cracking Bitcoin cryptography rather than stealing bitcoins like it happened at Bitfinex. This is certainly possible but the question itself is like what would happen if someone found a "kill switch" of sorts to power off the whole Earth. Obviously, people would quickly switch to direct barter (start using candles)

Bitcoin serves as an alternative source of income for those who are jobless. And I think that is really a big help. People can buy and sell bitcoin and earn a large amount of profit. People can now control their wealth with nothing more than the power of bitcoin.