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YOU CAN'T TOUCH A BITCOIN
This is a feature, not a bug. The very fact that bitcoin is not physical is one of the biggest factors contributing to it's unconfiscatability!
BITCOIN COULD GET HACKED
In the 15 years since it was launched, it has never been hacked.
There have been hacks at exchanges however, so I highly recommend moving your bitcoin to your own self-custody wallet as soon as possible.
It has been estimated that to break the SHA-256 encryption (that bitcoin uses) within 24 hours, a quantum computer would need 13,000,000 physical qubits. At this time, the current qubit record held by Atom Computing in California is 1,180 qubits.
It is widely assumed that a quantum-safe encryption method will be developed well before it is needed.
Being open source means anyone can independently review the code. If it was closed source, nobody could verify the security. I think it's essential for a program of this nature to be open source.
~ Satoshi Nakamoto 2009-12-10