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Yes your bitcoin can be hacked. One of my friend lost 1.5 btc. For safety you have to use antivirus. My friend downloaded a wallet for airdrops. unfortunately there was malware. Then next day he realize that but hacker already did their work.also he lost Myetherwallet private key. Embarrassed   

All still leads to our decision, antivirus will not be useful if we make mistakes like your friend, for airdrop case you can scan the wallet in virustotal.com, bitcoin is very secure but still requires personal responsibility.

Yeah,virustotal is one of the best. I always use this.but I am not using core wallet. because I have very few amout off btc
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can they hack into our wallet. There are many professional hackers out there. What are the chances? Also what is the safest way to safeguard ourself?

Here are some steps you have take to have a safer bitcoin wallet:

1. Installing malfare protection to prevent spyware and for also your own personal protection.

2. Using multiple address and also a mixing service. This should prevent hackers from tracking that address and finding your wallet. Mixing services should confuse hackers also.

3. Consider cold storage. I would definitely recommend getting a hardware wallet. Ledger wallets are currently unavailable, but you could still get a Trezor. You could get a paper wallet, or use a physical item to store Bitcoin.
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Yes your bitcoin can be hacked. One of my friend lost 1.5 btc. For safety you have to use antivirus. My friend downloaded a wallet for airdrops. unfortunately there was malware. Then next day he realize that but hacker already did their work.also he lost Myetherwallet private key. Embarrassed   

All still leads to our decision, antivirus will not be useful if we make mistakes like your friend, for airdrop case you can scan the wallet in virustotal.com, bitcoin is very secure but still requires personal responsibility.

I'm not sure if anti virus is really enough. What I did is just used my laptop only dedicated for my bitcoin activity. I already tell my kids that my laptop is off limits from now on because I'm afraid that they will download games that has a malware and still all my private keys. But I have another laptop that they can used anytime, but not this one.
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Yes your bitcoin can be hacked. One of my friend lost 1.5 btc. For safety you have to use antivirus. My friend downloaded a wallet for airdrops. unfortunately there was malware. Then next day he realize that but hacker already did their work.also he lost Myetherwallet private key. Embarrassed   

All still leads to our decision, antivirus will not be useful if we make mistakes like your friend, for airdrop case you can scan the wallet in virustotal.com, bitcoin is very secure but still requires personal responsibility.
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Yes your bitcoin can be hacked. One of my friend lost 1.5 btc. For safety you have to use antivirus. My friend downloaded a wallet for airdrops. unfortunately there was malware. Then next day he realize that but hacker already did their work.also he lost Myetherwallet private key. Embarrassed   
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They surely can, but it's not easy to do. It might aslo depend on what kind of wallet you use.
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can they hack into our wallet. There are many professional hackers out there. What are the chances? Also what is the safest way to safeguard ourself?

Today people can hack into everything it's just the time that's a variable. Your best bet is to have clean pc and take care of what you download and install. The chances are high if you're not careful. The wallet is secure as much as you're taking care of it's security.
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can they hack into our wallet. There are many professional hackers out there. What are the chances? Also what is the safest way to safeguard ourself?
It depends on its users since it can be hacked through phising/SQL program. The chances can't be determined since we don't have a basis. The safest way to guard yourself is to use 2fa security so it's impossible to get hacked though they have your password, wallet ID/username/email.

I've been a victim of phising program, in a form of a bitcoin forum specifically. One thing I learned from that is that we should always be careful on entering any sites and clicking links everywhere. It's best to enable 2fa on both bitcoin wallet and emails too. I've lost a couple of bitcoins from that and I've been more careful since then.
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you must make a good passwords. and you need 2-fa security fow your wallet.
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There are hackers that can hack everything. Maybe best way to protect yourself is to use one device for those purpose only and to use another for everything else ( Facebook, Twitter, instagram, etc).
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it's possible,
in early 2014, someone found out how to calculate a private key from outgoing transaction signature,
that's why we shouldn't reuse 1 address several times
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Everything can be hacked. Just make sure you have your own private keys. One of the safest ways to keep your coins is to save them on a paper wallet. Make sure you don't lose your paper wallet!
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If you want to secure your bitcoins I think the the best way is to have multiple wallets because you must not have store your btc in one account, there are many hackers out there just to be sure.
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You may choose to store your key in a number of places including a paper printout, a hard drive, or an Online Drive
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Yes of course bitcoin wallet be hacked by hacker  if any hacker know at ur ethereum wallet password  or bitcoon passwork there way be hacked  other wise hacker do not hacked your wallet account.
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   Anybody that has access to your private key. If you are using a paper wallet someone can steal it from your desk or wallet or wherever you are holding it, but they can not hack your wallet. If you have your
private keys on your computer and someone hacks in and finds it, they will have access to your account as well and can steal your bitcoins, do not hold your private keys stored on computer.
   Protection against thief`s needs to be upgraded all the time, hackers can not do much if you are do necessary things to protect yourself.
Every creation has its flaws, it was made by a person and may be destroyed by one also. So for your own wallet security you should do it yourself, help yourself if your in doubt. Multi wallets are used by others,
a single wallet without any signature or private keys may be at risk. Some buy hard drives for their wallets.
   I think the same, every creation have its own flaws and there will be always people who will try to exploit those flaws. If hacker can not hack you, he can take a gun and steal your computer from your home,
so buying new locks and installing alarms in house also sounds like a good idea.
It’s rightly said that every things has flaws and evil minds are always in search of those weak points. I would like to make sure that the security provided by bitcoins is of high level. It is already giving tough time to hackers. It’s quite ridiculous and unrealistic that hackers will break into our houses, stealing computers and laptops.
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can they hack into our wallet. There are many professional hackers out there. What are the chances? Also what is the safest way to safeguard ourself?
I think they can’t hack it because it has a private key that you’re the only one who knows it. In addition to that, all bitcoin wallets are very nice in security and you can a sure that your bitcoin or any coins is safe. I think there is no chance that hacker will hack you bitcoin wallet. Lastly, the best way to keep it safe is put a private key that will help your bitcoin secure.
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In rare cases. If you have tight security for your wallets, i mean your key credentials are safe, then hackers will not hack your bitcoin wallets. Based on your IP addresses, the hackers will try to hack. So, you can use your wallets in safe place.
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can they hack into our wallet. There are many professional hackers out there. What are the chances? Also what is the safest way to safeguard ourself?

Chances are 100%, Hackers also do adapt to changes and as far as I'm concern Hackers now a days a very much equipped and intelligent. Even you already have the safest wallet, as long as they want to hack in to they can probably do so. As for me, I have two wallets coins and electrum. I guess electrum does have the features that can safeguard my earnings/profits and protect somehow from an attacks done by this hackers.
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if you wanna have a better security, i would recommend to have a multi signature wallet (the address with prefix of 3 instead of 1). in case of possibility of being hacked, they need certainly large amount of computing power which consumes all the possible energy in the Earth as there are more than googol (IIRC) of possible combinations and not all the private key is valid for bitcoin address.

You need to have more wallet. Incase a wallet that you have they not easily get what your all money are. Be wise from technology because there such a person want a money that they easily get.
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