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Not practical for ordinary people. No regular person is holding their own wallet, and even the technically sophisticated who do get their keys stolen or lose them to faulty backups or technical snafus.

1MDB heist was $4.5bn so this would indeed be bigger.

I thought the point of crypto was no takesies-backsies?

"frequently span weeks" except when it doesn't. I tried adding an English article about a Chinese singer (who has her own Chinese WP page already), and it was speedy deleted seconds later.

But why wouldn't you take advice from a company that loses billions and actively brags that no one understands how its main product works?!

Molten sodium as a cooling liquid always struck me as a "courageous decision" (to quote Yes Minister). Is there really nothing else that can do the job?

I wouldn't choose the word "emasculating", but certainly a demeaning environment of constant monitoring and micromanagement. I was talking to someone in the NHS recently, a professional doctor, who says the whole thing with endless micromanagement and paperwork is exhausting, and he wants out. It affects all employees, men and women.