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I'm, all for bitcoin, but articles like these are bullshit.

How many cryptography and bitcoin experts were consulted/hired to babysit this transaction, knowing that the smallest mistake could lead to total and irreversible loss of funds?

What was their compensation?

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Probably none... That just isn't how it works. What do see the "bitcoin expert" doing in this case other than double checking the receiving address is correct?

I do lots of transfers between VMs (different personas) via mixing services. So I always verify receiving addresses using md5sum. I presume that prudent folk routinely do something like that. It's ~hard to see some single-character errors, but md5sum changes completely.

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