Feds arrest married couple, seize $3.6 billion in hacked bitcoin funds

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33. The cryptography behind bitcoin is considered very solid

Some of the other cryptocurrencies a bit less so, as there are compromises. But one of the reasons bitcoin uses so much energy is that it is strongly protected by the most modern cryptographic strategies. If anyone ever did compromise bitcoin it would mean they had also already compromised every algorithm ever used to protect web commerce, a lot of banking, and some seriously important governmental functions. Yes, it was made by a man, but it was made with a strategy, using "one-way" functions that are easy to do in one way but very hard to undo the other way. Crypto may collapse for myriad reasons, but being hacked is unlikely to be one of those reasons for decades at the earliest.