Originally posted as a Twitter thread on September 13, 2017

Put another way: CEOs, please educate yourselves properly about cryptocurrency. Side effect is you’ll understand some basic cryptography.

I have personally met Chief Security Officers at major public companies who did not know what a hash function is

And yet CEOs — desperate not to be the Target CEO fired for a security breach — don’t know diff between competence and big talkers

it’s no surprise, then, that these security incidents keep happening — and these are just the ones that are known

There’s a difference between “susceptible to hacking” and “thinking that Bitcoin is a fraud” but cryptographic ignorance at heart of both

And ignorantly saying “it’s a scam” will turn away true cryptographic security experts from wanting to work at your company

Funny thing: true cryptography people tend to like cryptocurrency 😉