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Topic: Is it safe to save USDT and BUSD on binance for long term? - page 2. (Read 354 times)

newbie
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Binance has a more decentralized product than its own exchange, Trustwallet - supports multiple chains. Or use a web wallet like Guarda and a browser extension wallet like Metamask(only supports chains with hexadecimal addresses - prefix "0x").
As long as you take good care of the seed phrases or privatekey, as long as the tokens you keep are safe.

guarda looks like it supports both usdt and busd. Should I trust guarda for long term savings?
And does trustwallet also supports busd and tether such as guarda?
Are these wallets saves the private keys in an offline environment (in mobile/desktop) to prevent against hacking attempts online?



Can I ask you why you want to hold stablecoins for long periods? If you do not intend to buy or invest for the next three months, it is better to keep it in cash than to risk hacking the platform or freezing your funds in the wallet.
Stablecoins are good for trading and short-term betting.
because if I withdraw money from an exchange to the bank account, i have to convert it to domestic currency first and then to usd again on bank. So because of the exchange rates differency and some commissions i loose some money while transferring..
Also it is still unclear how and how much taxes will apply to the crypto exchange money from real bank side.

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hero member
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Binance has a more decentralized product than its own exchange, Trustwallet - supports multiple chains. Or use a web wallet like Guarda and a browser extension wallet like Metamask(only supports chains with hexadecimal addresses - prefix "0x").
As long as you take good care of the seed phrases or privatekey, as long as the tokens you keep are safe.
legendary
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Can I ask you why you want to hold stablecoins for long periods? If you do not intend to buy or invest for the next three months, it is better to keep it in cash than to risk hacking the platform or freezing your funds in the wallet.
Stablecoins are good for trading and short-term betting.
legendary
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Is it safe to save USDT and BUSD on binance for long term?
No it's not safe.
Exchanges should be used only for trading, not for storing any coins long term, unless you want to lose them.
Your account and funds can get frozen, and exchange can be hacked any times, that happened before many times.
Offline wallets can be used for storing, or how wallets for storing pocket money and smaller amount of coins.
hero member
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Hi
I receive some money from my friend to my USDT address on binance web wallet from month to month. If my friend somehow fakely demand the money legally/illegally on binance from my wallet, can he get any money from my wallet in the future? Is that possible?

Is it safe to save USDT and BUSD on binance for long term?

Doesn't sound like he is a friend. He sends money every month, binance would probably think this is a reoccurring fee from a friend so it would really be unwise for binance to consider the demand to take it back. But they are between you and your friend.

Some will reason you they store stablecoin on exchanges because they are waiting for BTC or altcoin prices to dip so they stash some of it. But keeping coins inside a wallet is not recommended.
legendary
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A Binance wallet is not good for holding coins in the long term if you want long-term holdings then transferring and having a hardware wallet is the safest way to hold USDT or any coins.

Should I send all of my usdt and busd into my desktop electrum wallet for long term savings?


Like the above said Electrum only support Bitcoin so you need to trade them into Bitcoin and transfer them out to Electrum just make sure that you write the seed backup on the piece of paper physically or save it digitally on an offline machine and never expose the backup to the online machine for safety.
legendary
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Yes, binance can do whatever they want with your crypto since it's in their custody.
I don't want to scare you, as this is unlikely to happen especially for small amounts, but even if you move your USDTs to a non-custodial wallet, there is still a risk that they get frozen since it's a centralized coin (issued by a centralized company, Tether). They did it before and they can do it again if needed.
Personally, I only trust bitcoin for long term storage.
legendary
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Should I send all of my usdt and busd into my desktop electrum wallet for long term savings?
Electrum only supports bitcoin.

For altcoins, I will advice you to go for open source hard wallet, or if you are able to get a completely open source wallet that is recommended.

I noticed people using altcoins may not have option than going for a close source wallet like Trustwallet which support such coins. But not worth going for close source wallet because the wallet source code is not publicly available.
member
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Binance is not a wallet, it is an exchange.

If you use 2FA and other security, and you are able to secure your wallet, your friend would not be able to access your Binance account. But exchanges should be for trading, not holding.

Exchanges are often hacked, even Binance has been hacked before. Do not leave your coins on exchanges.

Use a wallet instead of an exchange. Use a wallet, have your keys, which means you have full control over your coins on blockchain.

Should I send all of my usdt and busd into my desktop electrum wallet for long term savings?

A short answer to this question would be YES! do that. Keeping your coins on a wallet that you control it's secret keys is always recomended.

newbie
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Binance is not a wallet, it is an exchange.

If you use 2FA and other security, and you are able to secure your wallet, your friend would not be able to access your Binance account. But exchanges should be for trading, not holding.

Exchanges are often hacked, even Binance has been hacked before. Do not leave your coins on exchanges.

Use a wallet instead of an exchange. Use a wallet, have your keys, which means you have full control over your coins on blockchain.

Should I send all of my usdt and busd into my desktop electrum wallet for long term savings?
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 4795
Binance is not a wallet, it is an exchange.

If you use 2FA and other security, and you are able to secure your wallet, your friend would not be able to access your Binance account. But exchanges should be for trading, not holding.

Exchanges are often hacked, even Binance has been hacked before. Do not leave your coins on exchanges.

Use a wallet instead of an exchange. Use a wallet, have your keys, which means you have full control over your coins on blockchain.
newbie
Activity: 12
Merit: 2
Hi
I receive some money from my friend to my USDT address on binance web wallet from month to month. If my friend somehow fakely demand the money legally/illegally on binance from my wallet, can he get any money from my wallet in the future? Is that possible?

Is it safe to save USDT and BUSD on binance for long term?
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