Do you think Coinbase wallet is safe? - page 3.

Stake

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Quote from: z3r0 on November 26, 2013, 07:02:20 AM

Quote from: Stake on November 26, 2013, 07:01:01 AM

If you're going to bring in DDoS, it's easier to DDoS a person to disable them from their funds as opposed to a myriad of servers.

You just listed another easy to use wallet. I can't access my funds on electrum from my phone.

You need an outlet buy & sell if you want Bitcoin to become big. The average joe won't know how to mine and hold their funds themselves. Coinbase solves that problem allowing people to buy & sell along with transferring easily.

Honestly, you are an idiot. You're obviously defending online wallets as you run one. It is recognized practice to disclose that. Is it easier to DDoS 1 website, or DDoS 100,000 Bitcoin users? Is a hacker going to try and hack one website with millions, or hack a user with half a bitcoin?

Yes, you can use electrum on your phone. http://electrum.org/android.html

Buy and sell is irrelevant as we are talking about wallets, not trading. I use coinbase to purchase coins too, but I will never leave any coins there for more than a day.

You present valid arguments.

One huge difference is that Coinbase provides 2-Factor Authentication.

Bitcoin user is infected with malware -> Bitcoin funds stolen.

Bitcoin user is infected with malware -> 2-Factor saves user's Coinbase funds.

Please don't think I believe HTTP based wallets are safer, I'm just playing devil's advocate for people to know the differences and pros and cons.

Someone has to argue the more difficult side! Tongue

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The objective of my wallet is to provide a bitcoin & litecoin integrated wallet.

We support Google Authenticator and we are an on-the-chain wallet.

z3r0

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Quote from: Stake on November 26, 2013, 07:01:01 AM

If you're going to bring in DDoS, it's easier to DDoS a person to disable them from their funds as opposed to a myriad of servers.

You just listed another easy to use wallet. I can't access my funds on electrum from my phone.

You need an outlet buy & sell if you want Bitcoin to become big. The average joe won't know how to mine and hold their funds themselves. Coinbase solves that problem allowing people to buy & sell along with transferring easily.

Honestly, you are an idiot. You're obviously defending online wallets as you run one. It is recognized practice to disclose that. Is it easier to DDoS 1 website, or DDoS 100,000 Bitcoin users? Is a hacker going to try and hack one website with millions, or hack a user with half a bitcoin?

Yes, you can use electrum on your phone. http://electrum.org/android.html

Buy and sell is irrelevant as we are talking about wallets, not trading. I use coinbase to purchase coins too, but I will never leave any coins there for more than a day.

The only person defending web wallets is someone who runs a similar web wallet. Think about this for a moment. Also, hire a pentester (this means paying a respected company in advance) before your wallet gets too tempting for me to exploit a security vulnerability in it.

Stake

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Quote from: z3r0 on November 26, 2013, 06:57:52 AM

Availability. If coinbase gets DDOS'd or their service is down, you don't have access to your coins. You ALWAYS have less livability with a online wallet than local. ALWAYS. No exceptions.

Ease of use. I'm sorry but this is extremely subjective. Personally Electrum is the easiest to use wallet.

Outlet to buy & sell. That's completely different. We are talking about wallets. You can buy/sell (you should trade on a real exchange, by the way) without keeping coins in their wallet for long durations.

Just a few reasons. I can list you dozens of downsides, but I will not as it is clear you will not listen.

Satoshi designed bitcoin so YOU have control of your money, not a trusted financial provider. That is literally why he made bitcoin - read his whitepaper.

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Online wallets are never the solution. You either agree, or learn it the hard way.

If you're going to bring in DDoS, it's easier to DDoS a person to disable them from their funds as opposed to a myriad of servers.

You just listed another easy to use wallet. I can't access my funds on electrum from my phone.

You need an outlet buy & sell if you want Bitcoin to become big. The average joe won't know how to mine and hold their funds themselves. Coinbase solves that problem allowing people to buy & sell along with transferring easily.

z3r0

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Quote from: deisik on November 26, 2013, 06:58:11 AM

Personally, I don't think they are any less safe than an average on-line banking system out there, provided you are using two-step verification...

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/19942994/australia-police-central-bank-websites-hacked/

http://slashdot.org/story/13/08/21/027243/three-banks-lose-millions-after-wire-transfer-switches-hacked

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240208933/More-than-half-top-bank-websites-hacked-study-shows

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/13/business/la-fi-mo-banks-allegedly-hacked-in-cyberheist-20130613

Believe me, banks getting hacked are a weekly occurrence, and I know many incidents with detail. Wink

Banks can recover from hacks as they have the government and FDIC to bail out from. Coinbase does not.

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Satoshi designed bitcoin so YOU have control of your money, not a trusted financial provider. That is literally why he made bitcoin - read his whitepaper.

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Online wallets are never the solution. You either agree, or learn it the hard way.

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Quote from: NCM on November 25, 2013, 12:25:20 PM

With all the news of different services being hacked it makes me wonder?

Personally, I don't think they are any less safe than an average online banking system out there, provided you are using two-step verification...

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Availability. If coinbase gets DDOS'd or their service is down, you don't have access to your coins. You ALWAYS have less livability with a online wallet than local. ALWAYS. No exceptions.

Ease of use. I'm sorry but this is extremely subjective. Personally Electrum is the easiest to use wallet.

Outlet to buy & sell. That's completely different. We are talking about wallets. You can buy/sell (you should trade on a real exchange, by the way) without keeping coins in their wallet for long durations.

Just a few reasons. I can list you dozens of downsides, but I will not as it is clear you will not listen.

Satoshi designed bitcoin so YOU have control of your money, not a trusted financial provider. That is literally why he made bitcoin - read his whitepaper.

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Online wallets are never the solution. You either agree, or learn it the hard way.

Stake

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Quote from: z3r0 on November 26, 2013, 06:53:26 AM

The issue is not their technical ability but their business interest. Imagine if Coinbase started coinvalidation and marked some of your coins as "suspicious", maybe because they have been used on the Silk Road before you received them. The feds can easily pressure Coinbase do to something like that, but the feds cannot pressure open source software to take away control of your money.

You have the power to be your own bank. Why let someone else do it for you?

Convenience.

Availability.

Ease of use.

Outlet to buy & sell.

Just a few reasons.

There are pros and cons to both sides.

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The issue is not their technical ability but their business interest. Imagine if Coinbase started coinvalidation and marked some of your coins as "suspicious", maybe because they have been used on the Silk Road before you received them. The feds can easily pressure Coinbase do to something like that, but the feds cannot pressure open source software to take away control of your money.

Google, with 40,000 employees, many of them very experienced, has had a major crippling flaw in their account recovery setup that essentially allowed anyone to steal your account. That wasn't ages ago. That was 10 days ago.

You have the power to be your own bank. Why let someone else do it for you?

Stake

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Quote from: TheButterZone on November 26, 2013, 06:48:58 AM

They are human.

NOT GODS.

You are right.

But they do the best they can.

TheButterZone

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RIP Mommy

They are human.

NOT GODS.

Stake

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They have highly-paid engineers with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science & Economics from some of the most respected universities in the world.

They use cold storage.

They have $6M+ in investments.

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No private key out of your exclusive control can ever possibly be safe. Humans and their computers are not infallible.

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If you want to have small amounts to use for online transactions then online wallets are fine. But if I were you I wouldn't store more than 1 BTC online. You can just store the rest on your HDD or a paper wallet or in cold storage which is far safer.

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I wouldn't hold to many coins in any online wallet whatsoever even though coinbase looks quite professional.

troy112

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No, nothing is, in these days. Put most of your coins in offline wallet or paper wallet..

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