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Quote from: Lexters on December 25, 2017, 02:07:13 AM

Hi all,
Just thought I'd start a thread on how not to get your bitcoin stolen and do this by learning from others.
It's all on our minds is our coins secure but we can do simple things to ensure they stay safe.
So any suggestions and stories on how yours got stolen would be great. Sorry if it brings up bad memories.

Many thanks for your time
Lex

I think it's next to impossible to steal someone else's bitcoins or other cryptocurrency holdings like any other thing. It is because it is usually well protected in e-wallets with strong encryption that is quite difficult to crack without a high-grade programming involved. I think the only way one could steal your holdings is if you would mistakenly give your wallet to them, and they know your password to get in the wallet, which is highly unlikely unless you give it to them. That's why people always remind cryptocurrency wallet to secure their wallets and keep them offline so that internet thieves won't get their hands on them.

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why bitcoin steal that there are so many ways to get bitcoin to work in the signature campaign and there are more mining and trading and airdrops and so much more why robots steal, and hard bitcoin steal

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For me if that key is compromised, the attackers can send all of the victim's bitcoin to themselves or an intermediary, or simply delete the key and digitally eliminate the bitcoin. Without the private key, as there is no central bitcoin authority by design, there is no way to claim ownership of a set of bitcoin.
Once you ensure that your private keys have a layer of protection, you need to safeguard your cryptocurrency wallet. A wallet is both a collection of one or more private keys and the software you use to interact with the cryptocurrency protocol.

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Keep all your passwords on paper or an encrypted hard drive, in your safe at home. I don't really trust the cloud to store my passwords

Lexters

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Quote from: lasry on December 26, 2017, 09:26:13 PM

Quote from: AVAMONEY on December 26, 2017, 01:50:53 PM

Don't ever shares your privates key, be careful with phising sites link. Do not keep privates key in public computer.
Try to protect your email with strong password. Some hacking tool are targeting to brute email acct which this one of accessing to some exchanges sites.

He's totally right. The best advice in keeping your wallet safe is to keep your private key safe first.
You should store the keys somewhere private and offline. Like a personal computer.
The technology that bitcoin use, Blockchain is totally safe so there no need to worry.

Superb advice, i now store most on a nano ledger. Cold storage is a superb idea as well.
Thanks for all the tips!

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Quote from: AVAMONEY on December 26, 2017, 01:50:53 PM

Don't ever shares your privates key, be careful with phising sites link. Do not keep privates key in public computer.
Try to protect your email with strong password. Some hacking tool are targeting to brute email acct which this one of accessing to some exchanges sites.

He's totally right. The best advice in keeping your wallet safe is to keep your private key safe first.
You should store the keys somewhere private and offline. Like a personal computer.
The technology that bitcoin use, Blockchain is totally safe so there no need to worry.

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Quote from: Thanasis on December 25, 2017, 02:18:17 AM

Quote from: Lexters on December 25, 2017, 02:07:13 AM

Hi all,
Just thought I'd start a thread on how not to get your bitcoin stolen and do this by learning from others.
It's all on our minds is our coins secure but we can do simple things to ensure they stay safe.
So any suggestions and stories on how yours got stolen would be great. Sorry if it brings up bad memories.

Many thanks for your time
Lex

You need to store your crypto currencies in paper wallets or in hardware wallet and keep the private key in a secured offline drive then your coins will be safe forever.If you store your coins in online wallets there are high possibility of you will get stolen.

yes, I agree with your answer, doing it is the safest way to maintain the privacy of the wallet. especially in the year 2018, I read that criminal acts will increase, take preventive action is the best way today.

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The offline mode of securing bitcoins is called cold storage. Cold storage wallets are not connected to the Internet and are thus less susceptible to hacking.

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Quote from: BrewMaster on December 25, 2017, 08:56:12 AM

by trusting one of the old and (seemingly) trustable exchanges called bittrex.

everything was fine and nobody had any complaints, their rules were clear and a lot of people were using it. some day they decided to rob their users so they changed their rules in a way to close lots of accounts and block their funds. and they did that to thousands of users who trusted them!

Цe тoчнo, bittrex бaгaтo кopиcтyвaчiв нeзaдoвoлeнi.

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Quote from: KennyR on December 26, 2017, 01:55:09 PM

Here, one's own self interest is the must to keep our bitcoins safe without much of additional features. Once I got my wallet balance being stolen, but however hard I research I was unable to retain back what the hackers took away from my wallet. Large scale stealing happens with the network.

therefore security is very important.
use coating safety so that all the balance in the wallet is maintained.
I'm sure if we use 2fa and the like.
the hacker will not easily steal something from us

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My practice is to convert my bitcoin into our native currency and deposit their in my bank accounts since the previous value of bitcoin is very high I think this is my best way of preventing my money to get steal but since holding is the best for now securing my wallet is very important the best thing to do is have a strong password or use a two factor authentication and never let anyone leaen this from you otherwise your wealth is at risk

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I have never had my bitcoins stolen, but I have seen some outrageous threads of 25k bitcoins stolen, pretty insane. Most of the time though it is the users fault for not securing his information, but hacks due occur.

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RIP Mommy

Used an exchange. Fuck exchanges.

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It is good to store one bitcoin in paper wallet and hardware wallet is the best place to protect your bitcoin and be free from hackers.

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Are u asking the ways to get lost ur tokens? The main and the most stupid way to loose it all is to get twisted the address and private key. I saw that happened. it's awful.

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Here, one's own self interest is the must to keep our bitcoins safe without much of additional features. Once I got my wallet balance being stolen, but however hard I research I was unable to retain back what the hackers took away from my wallet. Large scale stealing happens with the network.

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Don't ever shares your privates key, be careful with phising sites link. Do not keep privates key in public computer.
Try to protect your email with strong password. Some hacking tool are targeting to brute email acct which this one of accessing to some exchanges sites.

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Thank you for +Merit

The most reliable means is to use cold storage wallets. If you keep bitcoins for a long time, then cold wallets are what you need, do not show anyone the private key. Make many copies of it. For a long period, do not use exchanges and on-line purses.

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Quote from: Lexters on December 25, 2017, 02:07:13 AM

Hi all,
Just thought I'd start a thread on how not to get your bitcoin stolen and do this by learning from others.
It's all on our minds is our coins secure but we can do simple things to ensure they stay safe.
So any suggestions and stories on how yours got stolen would be great. Sorry if it brings up bad memories.

Many thanks for your time
Lex

Ive never been hack and i dont want to be hack. Mostly now i could read a lot of stories and also my friends told me that mostly of them get hack and someone also said that he losses his private key of his wallet in his computer . Well that cases will mostly impossible to get back your bitcoin, at first it is your fault because you are not taking good care of your wallet or bitcoin and second is hackers can penetrate you because your password or you is too weak abouut it and not thinking about security.

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This is one of the major drawback about bitcoin, you can't get back your currency once stolen. It's humble request to everyone, please secure your wallet as much as possible. There are lots example in my network, those have lost their virtual currency in initial period and there are no such a regularity where we can register a complain against them.

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