>why not move it somewhere like Coinbase Frankly, that's not much better. Just move your BTC off the exchange in to your own private wallet. There's no excuse

>why not move it somewhere like Coinbase Frankly, that's not much better. Just move your BTC off the exchange in to your own private wallet. There's no excuse or good reason not to. Make sure your private wallet is encrypted with a strong (16 char+) password, keep it on a USB stick and, every time you send coins from it, back it up again to a few places (spideroak, a second usb stick, CD-ROM, whatever).