> Also why would I trust them, when there is no need to?
Because your alternative is to trust the crypto infrastructure, which is far less trustworthy.
Because your alternative is to trust the crypto infrastructure, which is far less trustworthy.
actually banks have failed in the past, this infrastructure not yet
Man, what are you talking about? There's a new "$100 million in coins go missing" story every 6 months.
Coins go missing from exchanges, which break the basic private key rule. People use exchanges for convenience because as clever as cryptocurrency is, it has no answer to the exchange problem.
Bullshit. No "religious" following of rules can protect you against a zero day exploit somewhere in your system.
Actually, there are smart contracts which act as exchanges. Not for all currency pairs yet, but it's on the way.
https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-zaif-hacked-in-60-m...
As of now, paying for goods and services with cryptocurrencies is relatively risky; it's hard to get recourse if you're scammed; and the standard credit card infrastructure with chargebacks and fraud protection is comparably more trustworthy.
As of now, storing cryptorcurrencies is risky. And I'm not even talking about the shady brokers/exchanges that can steal or lose their customer's money. You can store it yourself as well as you can - but, as it turns out, most people aren't that good at storing it securely, so all kinds of risks and breaches (e.g. hacking your devices to get access to your secrets) are more common than for bank accounts but, also, the consequences are more severe - if your bank account gets drained in an identity theft attack, very often these funds are recovered or compensated, not so with crypto. So again, the existing financial infrastructure with regulation, FDIC or similar insurance in case of fraud or insolvency, mandated consumer protection in case of scammed credentials - it's more trustworthy than the commonly used processes&procedures&infrastructure of crypto storage.
In reality most of the exchanges and sites dealing with crypto were (and probably still are) built by absolute amateurs with no checks and balances on their apps from a security perspective. Its scary as hell that people trust those sites with their actual money.
What was stored on the encrypted laptop was all of the cold storage wallets containing the majority of the digital assets.
No less idiotic, but an important factual distinction.