"But Bitcoin exhibits a lot more fragility than the true believers admit or realize. Bitcoin is all about confidence, and confidence has a funny way of disappearing in a flash."
Now do governments and their fiat monetary systems. We'll wait.
For whatever reason, your link didn't take me to the article.
Nor does the link load, after searching for it manually.
Explain it for the ignorant plebs, if you would.
What changes were made to the site?
Whats a regression test?
What problems did the changes cause?
What does the 'user journey' convey, and what information is in it?
Whats an end to end test?
Why is it a paranoia, is the fear unfounded?
Would it be unreasonable for lesbians to be paranoid about sleeping with a biological male, who identifies as a woman?
Not wanting to get duped or tricked, in an incredibly intimate environment makes copious amounts of sense, and calling it paranoia seems a little over the top
Hopefully you aren't conflating an exchange, a popular exchange at that, with the cryptocurrency itself.
There are plenty of issues with bitcoin, in terms of it not being anonymous, and payments able to be tracked.
But the concern shouldn't be with governments taking the controls of bitcoin and using bitcoin as their own, it will be the banning and outlawing of bitcoin, in favour of their own government backed, centrally controlled, cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin still has it's decentralisation going for it, even if in reality, the decentralisation is still heavily centralised in certain locations.
Like with any investment, or hedge, spreading your money is the wise decision.
What will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up?
What was it like to wake up, having never been asleep?