MicrosoftNot sure why you have to get personal and make baseless assumptions as to me being "new to crypto". We've been discussing this topic in a fairly objective fashion until you popped in. Just for the record, I bought my first Bitcoin in 2013, so I am hardly new. Does that mean I know everything and I am correct all the times? No.
I was not wrong however in my opinion that BTC is not necessarily the most secure blockchain and I have given different arguments to make my point. Here are some more:
1. Bitcoin chain is susceptible to routing attacks, where large ISPs could split the bitcoin network into fragments by hijacking BGP ASes. It also allows for delay and partition attacks. This has been well researched and you can read up on it here, for example:
2. Furthermore, we have numerous successful double-spend attacks on record, the last one documented in 2019 (read the “Unconfirmed Transaction Attacks" paragraph:
https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/double-spend-attacks-bitcoin
Does any of this mean I don't like Bitcoin? No, to the absolute contrary (it's by far the largest position in my portfolio). So there is no need to get all defensive just because I have a slightly less rose tinted opinion about its security.
Yes, Etherrum has its issues too, nobody is denying that. They are being worked on as we speak.
And I repeat myself again: I am not really interested in hearing Bitcoin maximalist's rose tinted opinions on how their favorite crypto is the best in the world (we can discuss this for hours without coming to a conclusion). I wanted to hear - from Microsoft - why they chose Bitcoin over something else. No one here but Microsoft can answer that. All you can do is make assumptions, and I am not interested in those.
