After over a decade of people pointing out some problems with public coins using unencrypted network transports lol, Bitcoin *might* finally do something about it.
But Bitcoin-BTC still doesn't use opportunistic cert pinning with various user selectable pin resetting modes, so more spy-and-games MITM. And Bitcoin-BTC is still not a privacy coin. So it's useless for actual use. And will be obsoleted by better performing privacy coins before long. Cryptocurrency (noun): A P2P Electronic Privacy Cash System A currency always has some store of value, but an unusable store of value is not a currency, thus it cannot be a store of value.
