A Turkish crypto exchange boss has gone missing and, according to reports, he took $2 billion of investors’ funds with him (details below). It will be hard to prove he stole the crypto, and it is unlikely to be found or returned.
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How dangerous is crypto? That’s the wrong question. The right question: how dangerous is it to store your decentralized tokens in the digital wallet of an unregulated centralized exchange? If those tokens were in people’s personal wallets, they’d still have them. If they didn’t need to exchange the crypto for fiat currency, they would still have them. If the exchange was decentralized, there would not have been a way to illegally take them.
Decentralization is the most compelling feature of crypto, NFTs, and all blockchain technologies. Should you trust an unregulated central authority with your funds? IDK. It sounds dangerous.
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