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Securing bitcoin you should check the best wallet to be used, keep the private key in your wallet in a safe place and do some back up on it don't share it to anyone. Enabled the 2fa authenticator.

Be sure to keep and secure your private key, don't let anyone know your private key. If you want to hold your bitcoin for a long term, you can buy a hardware wallet, ledger or trezor are already proven trusted. Always remember dont give to anyone or don't let anyone see your private key.

There are lot of ways to secure your bitcoin like you put in on online or offline wallet and store it in a safe place where you are the only one who knows it. Furthermore, you must keep your private key and password in a safe place and do not ever share it to anybody. Lastly, you can also 2fa to make secure your bitcoins.

How to secure bitcoins depends from whom you are afraid, government, hackers, neighbors or wife. There is planty ways to secure bitcoins but probably the best way is offline wallet and send bitcoin there after you mixed them in some bitcoin mixer. The best way to protect yourself from anyone is to hide the fact that you have something at all. The more you talk, more people will hear and that will come to someone who will rob you, doesn't matter how secured you are there is always a way.
Buy yourself a leger wallet or trezor, fill them with bitcoins and don't tell anyone about it, its how you can protect yourself from governments, from thiefs, even from your wife. Look what happen with 50 cent, first he said he is bitcoin millionaire and on court he said that his statement was just in commercial purposes, when he needed to pay taxes. Learn from other people mistakes.

OWNING CRYPTOCURRENCY ISN'T quite the Wild West experience it was at the beginning of the decade, but investors still face plenty of instability and risk. The threats aren't just abstract or theoretical; new scams crop up, and old ones resurge, all the time. Whether it's a fake wallet set up to trick users, a phishing attempt to steal private cryptographic keys, or even fake cryptocurrency schemes, there’s something to watch out for at every turn.

Cryptocurrencies can feel secure, because they decentralize and often anonymize digital transactions. They also validate everything on public, tamper-resistant blockchains. But those measures don't make cryptocurrencies any less susceptible to the types of simple, time-honored scams grifters have relied on in other venues. Just this week, scams have arisen that divert funds from users' mining rigs to malicious wallets, because victims forgot to change default login credentials. Search engine phishing scams that tout malicious trading sites over legitimate exchanges have also spiked. And a trojan called CryptoShuffler has stolen thousands of dollars by lurking on computers, and spying on Bitcoin wallet addresses that land in copy/paste clipboards.

A few simple steps, though, can help cryptocurrency proponents—be it Bitcoin or Monero or anything between—guard against a swath of common attacks. Just as you might keep your cash out of plain sight, or stash your jewelry in a safe deposit box, it pays to put a little effort into how you manage your cryptocurrency. The following won't defend against every conceivable attack on your digital doubloons, but it's a good place to start.

Software wallets? or you can generalized the wallets and securing the private keys of it through writing it on a sheet of paper and keep it where you are the only one that knows where it is.
Exchanges you can enable the 2FA feature which is very common so that if someone tries to steal your coins, they will fail.

Blockchain.info is popular but it's still a web wallet.

To secure bitcoin, by using blockchain.info wallet, because is a popular wallet that is very easy to used, and well secured with a strong password used in blockchain technology and also used for Google automatication for authorization for a rightful owner.

if you're really serious in investing into bitcoins you should choose a wallet to store it there it would be safe i recommend to use a wallet that is user friendly,easy to access and last but the most important one it being secure you must know the opinion of other persons about the wallet and make sure your picking the right one there are a lot of scams right now so you should be weary and be alert at all times.

to secure its ordinary bitcoin, which is most secure for now using the nano ledger,
as it would be safer for a bitcoin to use a nano ledger. and its security is guaranteed.

You can secure your bitcoin by holding them in a secure hardware wallet which is totally secure from any hacking issue and no one can do any transaction without your consent and knowledge.

There are a variety of ways to secure bitcoins, including software wallets, exchanges, and hardware wallets. Each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. Before securing your bitcoin, think about what you want - trading or holding.

To store Bitcoin, I use one of the most popular "thick" wallets - Bitcoin Core. This is the official Bitcoin client.
To other purses of trust there is no trust!

 I think the only way to secured your bitcoin is do not go to a malicious site. Never share your pk or private key. Always back up your information and dont use other phone to transact. Use your own phone when you do a crypto

From the beginning I am using the blockchain wallet and it's a safe way and has secured the coins I have until now Grin

For me you just need to have a secured account and have a high secured password that no can dare to get ir to hack your account also always monitir your account to be sure that no one is using your account and don't tell  to anyone  your password and also log out your account if you sign up in public computer shop.

Choose the trusted wallet and beware of scammers . don't try to log-in to public computer shops or log-in to your friends personal computer or cellphone that he might get tempted to steal your Bitcoins. And dont forget youre password if you forget the password it will be recover but i dont know if bitcoin is  still in your wallet

First, don't share your Bitcoin password to anyone even your relatives because money is money that can ruin ones lives even in a family.
Second, don't try to log-in to public computer shops or log-in to your friends personal computer or cellphone that he might get tempted to steal your Bitcoins.
And lastly, try to install google authenticator that adds additional passwords to secure your trasanctions specially withdrawals. Be vigilant and enjoy trading!

Hardware like trezor seems the best one compare online device.
As we know, even Japanese exchange can be hack so for me personally, online device can't guarantee 100% secure.
Overall, crypto trading is risky so you must more aware rather than your fiat !

Just keep your key private, and log in from your private computer

Bitcoin as a technology is very strong but it is the subject matter of the user that where he is storing his coins. No one can brute force your wallet on the network and hack the coins but if you are keeping your funds on any exchange or web wallet then you can't rely on the security precautions taken by those service providers. Hackers can always try to hack their database and steal your coins. At the end, Bitcoin is all about self responsibility and we deserve, what we get in this decentralized world.