Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.

The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money.

It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

It is unquestionable that Sony's code has gotten into military and government networks, and not necessarily just U.S. military and government networks.

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.