Nobody says living off the grid of public life is the best way to live a great life when you hold bitcoin, there are ways we each enjoy life but there should be limitations on how this life should be lived especially when you hold Bitcoin. Buying a bitcoin is one of the first baby steps in the life cycle of a bitcoin, securing it in a good wallet(hardware wallet) is another great step to protect it from anyone and making sure the seed phrase is well backed up is another goal to check so that you can have access to it anytime in the future. This is the basic one everyone believes but security bitcoin doesn't end with running away from anyone having access to your seed phrase and private keys. There are more sophisticated kinds of public lifestyles that can endanger your Bitcoin.
When you hold a Bitcoin as an individual, you must learn to live some private life but it seems living a private life is like living in a prison; some people don't know that when you hold a Bitcoin, you need some degree of private life to some length. A private life is not about hiding from the public completely but limiting some ways you interact with the public, you may think it is a flex but it puts not only your bitcoin in danger, when you hold bitcoin it puts your life at high risk because having a means to money invites bad energy around you and you know what thieves are capable of doing when they know you are in a possession of money.
I want to share with you how a guy lost everything to armed robbers for always bringing his lifestyle to social media and always showing off how much he made in Bitcoin and some altcoins.
There is this guy I followed on X, he is very active with updates regarding Bitcoin, he trades most of the time and also shares his opinion on bitcoin moves. Just some days ago, he was robbed right in his home and his bank account was empty, the bitcoin and other crypto were emptied. From his screenshot, he stored his coins in the exchange which is the first red flag and showing off again on the internet is another red flag. Here are some images.
Source:
https://x.com/alh_myke1/status/1718374911352164567According to him, he was robbed and all his coins were been transferred out of his wallet when they threatened him and he had no choice but to send everything to them and was even forced to borrow more money from his friends to give them. Binance support was tagged for help and they are supporting him to trace the culprits but they didn't reveal whether it was a Binance to Binance transfer or Binance to external wallet. Regarding bank transfer, he has involved the legal process to trace the transaction.
What are the lessons to learn from this:1.
Don't share with people that you own a coin: There is joy when you tell friends about Bitcoin in other to encourage them or tell them about your journey but never tell them the amount you hold, the place you buy or how you store them. Some people have bad intentions even when you think they are your friends. Even if you save your Bitcoin in a hardware wallet that no one will access, you don't have to share everything with the public, it should remain private.
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You don't have to share with people how much you gain: Excitement makes us share gains and profits but it is not something you do on public platforms where people can easily identify you, telling people that you made X profits will only invite hate and jealous from people like the ones that are idle and have nothing doing, they can gang up to attack you when you don't expect them.
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Living a private life brings peace when you don't overshare: One thing about Bitcoin is if you don't tell anyone that you bought a Bitcoin, no one will ever know and the level of peace it brings, no other thing comes to it except you decide to share with people that you have bitcoin in your possession. Having money under you and nobody knows is peace on its own.
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Learning to live a private life gives you good privacy: Some people don't value their privacy, they see it as nothing but in fact when you have high privacy, it will be impossible for people to know much about you, it will be impossible for people to know your next move and how you plan to move, nothing goods like much privacy.
When you live a private life, it attracts less attention because people don't know much about you, you may do whatever you like in public but it is not a good idea when you hold an asset like Bitcoin and tell the world that you own some, it will attract bad people around you that will be willing to kill you just to have that bitcoin from you. In addition, learn to hold your coins in a hardware wallet because not your keys, not your coin.