The $6.3 billion Binance hack paradox: Centralization made the hack possible, but also saved $3 billion
CoinDesk · Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT
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Excerpt from CoinDesk: “The Binance hack has revived debates about whether decentralization is the digital asset industry’s greatest security advantage or its biggest point of weakness.”
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