Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin Users are Their Own Worst Enemies in Terms Of Security

Despite the deep correction the cryptocurrency market has suffered throughout 2018, its capitalization is still holding above $200 billion while leading exchanges are securing deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars every day and institutional investors are looking for a better infrastructure around the industry to take part in the revolution. Not much has changed on the criminal front either with scammers still running fraudulent tokensales and Ponzi schemes stealing millions from inexperienced investors. Hackers are still breaking into exchanges, performing DoS-attacks and hijacking DNS servers of popular wallets, or blackmailing and extorting cryptocurrencies from regular users. Neither should one forget about the 'traditional' criminals who prefer good old violence to convince people to part with their hardware devices stuffed with hard earned crypto. So if you think that with declining prices malicious actors are losing interest in cryptocurrencies, you are probably wrong.