Topic: How safe is it to store your bitcoins on a mobile phone? - page 3. (Read 7337 times)
Store your bitcoins in online wallets, it is safe.
I store my btc on my mobile phone too. But i only store like less than 1 btc because it is very danger. I mean that when phone got stolen or there is some virus, say good bye to my bitcoin. 
I keep between .10-.20 on my phone wallet and I think it
is safe.
That said I would never put a bunch of bitcoin on my phone.
The stress alone worrying about it wouldnt be worth it.
is safe.
That said I would never put a bunch of bitcoin on my phone.
The stress alone worrying about it wouldnt be worth it.
I prefer to use electrum wallet and also using blockchain.info. Electrum is based if you like to hold your coins for long term. You just have to save private key of the address you will use and also the recovery phrase they provide at start. Blockchain.info is very handy if you like to keep sending and receiving bitcoin everyday.
I wouldn't store most of your Bitcoins on blockchain if I were you, as that is quite dangerous. Electrum is a good alternative to other online wallets though.some are storing bitcoin wallet phones.
I think it all depends on your desires if you feel comfortable using the wallet phone then you can make it to be safe
for the moment wallet in the PC somewhat more secure. you just have to save your wallet as secure as possible. the important thing is secure your computer from viruses. do backup wallet at all times. securing your computer together with securing wallet.
yes i'm agree with that,maybe for security reason dekstop wallet is better than online wallet or mobile phone storage,but for easy used and carriying,its still matter for dekstop wallet,wecan't bring our PC anywhere. and also i think dekstop wallet should haved by people who really know about malware and virus or phising,becaue if not,newbie will easy to lost their bitcoin on dekstop wallet.Forgetting and losing your phone somewhere, snatched out of you, being bricked, hacked, spied, steal your information. It's fairly easy to do that when you're connected to the internet so only place in small amounts in phone wallet for small transactions and stuff.
Well i've got the blockchain app on my iphone and so far i am very happy with. Security is tight with a lot of security features. Not that I would store over 3 bitcoin on my phone, that's asking for problems if you ask me.
for the moment wallet in the PC somewhat more secure. you just have to save your wallet as secure as possible. the important thing is secure your computer from viruses. do backup wallet at all times. securing your computer together with securing wallet.
yes i'm agree with that,maybe for security reason dekstop wallet is better than online wallet or mobile phone storage,but for easy used and carriying,its still matter for dekstop wallet,wecan't bring our PC anywhere. and also i think dekstop wallet should haved by people who really know about malware and virus or phising,becaue if not,newbie will easy to lost their bitcoin on dekstop wallet.Forgetting and losing your phone somewhere, snatched out of you, being bricked, hacked, spied, steal your information. It's fairly easy to do that when you're connected to the internet so only place in small amounts in phone wallet for small transactions and stuff.
It's not safe to be honest. You carry your phone daily, so it's a daily possibility that you can forget where did you put your Bitcoins at.
If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
I believe that it is pretty safe and I am sure that nothing will happen to those Bitcoins. But the only thing I am afraid of is when you lose your phone or it breaks or something. If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
Then you have just lost your phone and your Bitcoins.
the breaking or losing the phone is not the biggest concern here because you can easily make a backup.
this is a bad idea becaue a phone is something that you carry with yourself so you are carrying your bitcoin with yourself everywhere also it can connect to internet which is bad without any explanation.
It's not safe to be honest. You carry your phone daily, so it's a daily possibility that you can forget where did you put your Bitcoins at.
If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
I believe that it is pretty safe and I am sure that nothing will happen to those Bitcoins. But the only thing I am afraid of is when you lose your phone or it breaks or something. If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
Then you have just lost your phone and your Bitcoins.
But the most safest way to store your Bitcoin is just at an online wallet and that is nice.
It's not safe to be honest. You carry your phone daily, so it's a daily possibility that you can forget where did you put your Bitcoins at.
If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
I believe that it is pretty safe and I am sure that nothing will happen to those Bitcoins. But the only thing I am afraid of is when you lose your phone or it breaks or something. If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
Then you have just lost your phone and your Bitcoins.
But if you lose it you have a problem.
So I recommend that you save them somewhere else.
However store Bitcoins via pc it safer. You can secure the PC via Bitcoins in several ways such as storing the private key using a notepad. Also It's better if you keep it on the desktop wallet.
Duuuhhh... It is on internet, isnt it? So it is safe.
Hope you dont keep your btc password on mobile, cuz thhere can be snooopers anywhere...
Hope you dont keep your btc password on mobile, cuz thhere can be snooopers anywhere...
I think keeping bitcoin in your mobile is as safe as keeping them on your computer.In both case you must take some safeguards to prevent hacking/stealing your device
Logically its correct,basicly smartphone and computer have same scurity for bitcoin wallet,but we should considering about chance to losing our device or broken,mobile phone have more chance to lose or broken,its why people choose computer or dekstop wallet. 
It's not safe to be honest. You carry your phone daily, so it's a daily possibility that you can forget where did you put your Bitcoins at.
If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
I believe that it is pretty safe and I am sure that nothing will happen to those Bitcoins. But the only thing I am afraid of is when you lose your phone or it breaks or something. If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
Then you have just lost your phone and your Bitcoins.
But if you lose it you have a problem.
I think keeping bitcoin in your mobile is as safe as keeping them on your computer.In both case you must take some safeguards to prevent hacking/stealing your device
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Exactly what i thought of. If someone found out about how much money is stored your mobile phone after you lost it, you can say goodbye to it.
if you however just store few coins to it, its fine.
if the stealer don't even know the PIN number or the password, how dare he can access to whole bitcoin wallet in the phone?if you however just store few coins to it, its fine.
a few wallet in the smartphone have a feature that can sync itself to the desktop wallet,so still can recover it when phone get lost
Always put a PIN on your mobile Bitcoin wallet so in the event that you lose your phone or someone steals it from you you will have enough time to log into another wallet and empty that Bitcoin address. Thieves nowadays will search through your installed apps for valuable accounts before selling the phone and any Bitcoin wallets apps will be a prime target.
It's not safe to be honest. You carry your phone daily, so it's a daily possibility that you can forget where did you put your Bitcoins at.
If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
I believe that it is pretty safe and I am sure that nothing will happen to those Bitcoins. But the only thing I am afraid of is when you lose your phone or it breaks or something. If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
Then you have just lost your phone and your Bitcoins.
Thats easily solvable, just use Mycelium wallet for Android phones, make sure you write down in a paper the backup code (seed words) and then put them on a safe USB in your pc. If you ever lose the phone, you just click restore and you have your bitcoins back even if you lost the phone, unless the phone was lost and is in the hand of a very knowledgeable person in the bitcoin area, he can get them before you.
Exactly what i thought of. If someone found out about how much money is stored your mobile phone after you lost it, you can say goodbye to it.
if you however just store few coins to it, its fine.
if you however just store few coins to it, its fine.
It's not safe to be honest. You carry your phone daily, so it's a daily possibility that you can forget where did you put your Bitcoins at.
If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
I believe that it is pretty safe and I am sure that nothing will happen to those Bitcoins. But the only thing I am afraid of is when you lose your phone or it breaks or something. If you have good encryption, then they should be safe even if you lose the phone, but of course, you lose the Bitcoins that are inside the phone. In general im too paranoid to carry Bitcoins in my phone.
Then you have just lost your phone and your Bitcoins.
I agrre with the most people here - it is not safe to keep your coins on the phone. Ypu might lose it, or could be broken (some softvare errors), attacked with malware, especially because most of the people still don't protect their phones right. Also, it's good to use deffernet kind of wallets (desktop, cloud etc.) and not keep all the coins at one place. Especially if you have larger sum.
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