This is the problem with blockchain technology in general and cryptocurrencies specifically — they have to assume good will. The frightening thing about the hack wasn’t the hack itself or how it happened but how it was stopped. Because blockchain technology depends upon a majority honest community it is particularly vulnerable to collapse it grows. Block chain was seen as a democratizing technology that was better than the bad actors of current investment markets. While that may have been true when Bitcoin started, among a pretty homogeneous community, that’s not so true as it grows. It’s just like the stock market which is a house of cards in itself. The technology only works if the majority of the people involved are assumed to be good actors. Look at what had to happen to stop the hack. Other hackers had to basically “steal,” everyone else’s money to prevent it from being stolen by back hackers. It’s the good guy with a gun argument which we know has it’s problems.
