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    6 months ago

    While this does raise a good point, crypto would be no better in this case as the machines that run the PoW/ PoS, etc might also be running on Windows systems, no? I know most are likely Linux, which weren’t affected by the Falcon mayhem this week, but if we’re comparing payment methods, both credit/ debit and crypto rely on some sort of network

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        6 months ago

        Very true. At worst the crypto network(s) might just have an influx of transactions and maybe a few validators go offline if they were running Falcon endpoint detection.