Our young universe of cryptocurrencies has already experienced many scams and hacking cases, because still being stammering, there are many flaws to fill and a regulatory framework to ask (hoping the latter secure but favorable).
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Here is the HowMuch site, specialized in clear and informative infographics, which gives us an overview of all hacks and scams already identified in our small world of cryptocurrencies.
It should first be noted that the amounts shown in the infographic below are the values in US dollars at the material time, because otherwise - during the day of the bitcoin where this article is written - the damage resulting from the hack of Mt Gox for example, would not be $ 450 million, but more than $ 6 billion and $ 400 million today (the breakout of the century!).
As HowMuch points out, there is a general trend that seems to indicate that lately (since the end of 2016) hacks / scams are increasingly important in their amount, because except for the Mt Gox case, all the harms greater than $ 10 million has occurred since the summer of 2016, with already 3 deals worth more than $ 150 million since the end of 2017 alone.
The price of climbing cryptocurrencies, and the money involved is more important, it is indeed likely that the next breaks are all the more resounding.
Moreover, computer graphics stops in April 2018, since - and among others - Bitcoin Gold has caused the loss of nearly 19 million dollars to exchange platforms with the attack of 51% that cryptocurrency has undergone .
We will never repeat it enough: find out for yourself, do some research before investing to avoid scams, and against exchange hacks, if you want HODL (keep your cryptos) in the long run, favor solutions. of cold storage and hardware wallets.