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Antifragility argument against the self-custody obituary

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Jeff Swanson answers those calling the incident an obituary for self-custody with the opposite reading: a five-year-old entropy bug was exploited, roughly $90 million was stolen, all of it visible on-chain and auditable in real time, the network identified it within hours and a fix shipped within days, whereas a bank breach is buried, lawyered and ultimately socialised through inflation. He argues the exploit exposed a flaw in one specific product rather than in self-custody. Held partly for the $90 million figure, which sits below other totals held here, including Galaxy's relayed estimate of 2,055 BTC or about $130 million and Ben Hart's same-day $130 million; this record shows the range and what each figure assumes rather than picking one. The figure and the antifragility argument are the poster's own and are not verified here.

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