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The chance that some random service run in the Bitcoin space exists in even a years time is vanishingly small. Yes, even yours.
If I close down, I have to refund all my customers. And it isn't a limited company, so those refunds come out of my personal bank balance. You can bet I'll be running it for 10 years.
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Until it gets owned by an unpatched CVE, anyway.
Pretty hard to own a VPS which has no external ports open, even if the software on it is years out of date. In fact, updating software is probably a bigger security risk than not doing so, because you never know when someone manages to package a malicious bit of code into a common debian package. Also, if it did get owned, I'd just have to spend a few hours rebuilding it - no bitcoin wallets or anything to steal on t…
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It is plausible to run a service on a $5 VPS. Pay $120 ahead of time and you have it for two years. I don't know why you think it would be so fragile. It wouldn't be difficult to run locally either.
Until it gets owned by an unpatched CVE, anyway.
(Also, again, someone could easily run something locally)
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Pretty hard to own a VPS which has no external ports open, even if the software on it is years out of date. In fact, updating software is probably a bigger security risk than not doing so, because you never know when someone manages to package a malicious bit of code into a common debian package. Also, if it did get owned, I'd just have to spend a few hours rebuilding it - no bitcoin wallets or anything to steal on t…
Fair point about updates being a mixed bag. But “no ports open” doesn’t always mean safe. Maybe someone can pass some evil bits inside transaction metadata? (Disclaimer: no idea what I’m talking about w/r/t transactions, or how much parsing you’re doing)
Imagine how many lives were destroyed with drugs worth €53.6m.
Oh no, anything but the devil's lettuce. Wont somebody think of the children!
Fully grown adults should be able to choose to do what they want but people who peddle drugs to children deserve nothing short of the death penalty.