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Remember, not your keys, not your bitcoin. Stay off coinbase.
by victor22 7y ago
Remember, not your keys, not your bitcoin. Stay off coinbase.
- notathing 7y ago> A criminal gang operating in India kidnapped and tortured cryptocurrency traders in recent weeks before demanding 80 bitcoins as ransom, police say. Three men had been held captive for 15 days inside a high-rise building and were beaten or tortured... Not even their family members were aware of the abduction. The victims had lost all hope because they had no access to anyone https://www.newsweek.com/cryptocurrency-traders-abducted-tortured-india-criminal-gang-arrested-bitcoin-ransom-1449274 https://www.newsweek.com/cryptocurrency-traders-abducted-tor...
- TooCleverByHalf 7y agoIm confused why this is a response to the parent.
- Izkata 7y agoIt's the same argument as this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/ Though granted it confuses keys for passwords.
- jameslevy 7y agoFor the average person, using Coinbase with 2FA is going to be better than managing their own private key. Even if their hot storage was penetrated, which is unlikely, they have insurance and other means of making sure that customer deposits are unaffected.
- dymk 7y agoBetter take all my cash out of the bank then and put it under my mattress.
- keypusher 7y agoI know a lot more people that have lost crypto because they lost their keys than people who lost it on Coinbase.