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Can Bitcoin be hacked?

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The Bitcoin network itself has never been successfully hacked, because changing its record would take an enormous amount of computing power. What does get hacked are the things around it: exchanges, apps, wallets and people. Most stolen bitcoin is taken through stolen keys, phishing or fake apps, not by breaking Bitcoin's code.

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