政府一直都在采取措施控制着，政府没倒，人民币就不会倒，想太多...

Yes, I read that as well, thanks.
They probably should have implemented cold storage in Hong Kong where their legal entity is.

Well that sure is going to be tricky. As a service provider, you'd have to prove that the keys to the funds are not stored on any online system, however you can't prove that something is not happening.

If I were to find enough bandwidth use Bitcoin Core as a wallet, could that expose my wallet IP address to potential hackers scanning the nodelist for weaknesses? I'm wondering if that is less secure than other options for somebody running a regular home network, or is it something that generally isn't a problem.

Unless you're trader, there's no reason to keep your bitcoin at exchange, but many people don't care about it at all.
It might be rude, but this must be great lesson for those who still dare to keep their bitcoin at exchange.

I do not wish to endorse Bitstamp but they recovered almost elegantly from their loss a while ago.

I really don't think finex will do something similar.

For Bitcoin as a whole this shit is really bad. It's not Bitcoin that's flawed in the end.

I've found that claim as well on their website, which can be viewed though Google Cache.
Source: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UvrqjyGeBZYJ:https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/30

But I've also read a couple of articles that claim they were not using any cold storage.

So along this theme of btc is broken will they pay back the 60 million in btc or will the exhchange go belly up?

But I'm always curious the factor can make the third parties always fail to secure the private key?Whether is always there are a chance it's caused by hacked or other intentions from the intern factor.

I'm sure they believed it was secure. That is the problem. Nobody knows how to ensure security. Pat answers like 'cold storage' or 'offline paper wallets' don't cut it. There needs to be some ironclad, ecosystem-wide protocol that all but ensure against wholesale theft like this.

fwiw.....Bitcoin needs $500 MINIMUM in order for it being worthwhile for the miners to continue mining and maintaining the network.

I only transfer to coin to an exchange to cash out.  Bitfinex supposedly had all the coins that were stolen in cold storage so explain that.

There are allot of bitcoin users the value cant be know the only thing you can know is how many coins there are in the world you know
I think there are more than 100 million bitcoin users but i cant knwo for sure offcourse.

The higher the value the more fresh money you will need to achieve crazy runs like that.
I think with a 2x we could be more than happy.After the halving and with a delay of a few months we will see this growth going to happen I believe.

Ok, you found one that was corrected. The point remains that Bitcoin facilitates loss in a way that no other payment system does and has no insurance or fraud protection covering it. I was one of the lucky ones that made money when you could mine with a gpu at almost no cost other than electricity. From now on, people will need to put their own money in to it and they will only make money if they live long enough to see an enormous increase in the exchange rate. It's a gamble that may pay off but it's high risk.

There are many secure investments that pay 10-20% a year. If you start today with $10,000 and average 20% a year for 20 years, you'll have over $380,000. Add $2,000 a year to the pot, and you'll wind up with $756,751 after 20 years. Granted, 20% a year is not super easy to achieve. But even if you only make 10% a year, you're still going to become very wealthy over the long term. People are getting scammed or throwing their money at gambling bitcoins because the return isn't happening fast enough for them. They should simply try a stable long term investment.