Bitcoin is not safe from thieves either

There was the first major cryptocurrency theft in our neighborhood.

Unknowns have stolen 4700 bitcoins from the Slovenian-based NiceHash startup’s e-wallet - equivalent to € 65 million at current exchange rates. The authorities treat the case where the perpetrators have illegally acquired significant material assets as an attack on an IT system and theft. The investigation is being conducted by cybercrime specialists.

One of the virtues of a cryptocurrency is that it does not depend on central issuers and authorities because it relies on a distributed database stored by the nodes of the peer-to-peer network. The open source digital currency was launched on January 2009, 3 by Satoshi Nakamoto, a forum name, not a real one.