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Quote from: DabsPoorVersion on October 20, 2019, 09:07:41 AM

Quote from: Samboo on October 20, 2019, 08:52:57 AM

Still many of newbies are not aware of their private keys. I see some of them do provide private keys to get some free tokens either from airdrops or from fake bounty projects. Some of them unknowingly save their private keys on their Bitcoin Forum account. In fact I did save my private keys on my bitcoin account. Newbies should know the fact that they should not share their private keys to anyone. Only they should share is ERC address.

Newbies always mistaken that private keys are also their wallet address. I've encountered a lot even before. They just dont understand that their private key is the heart of their wallet, once it was stolen or given to other person, the chances to compromised their wallet is 100%.
It is clear when creating a wallet, an instruction was posted to avoid giving or sending private keys to anyone, they should know and understand it very well.

That's what you can expect from a newbies since all of this is new to them so they probably do some mistakes. The only thing I can suggest is not to put the privatekey and address in one place or close to each other because its likely to happen when you want to share your public address to others that you will copy your privatekeys instead of the address. Always make a seperate file/record for privatekeys and wallet address only so whenever you want to check your balance or share your address then just open that file where your addresses stored.

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Quote from: Samboo on October 20, 2019, 08:52:57 AM

Still many of newbies are not aware of their private keys. I see some of them do provide private keys to get some free tokens either from airdrops or from fake bounty projects. Some of them unknowingly save their private keys on their Bitcoin Forum account. In fact I did save my private keys on my bitcoin account. Newbies should know the fact that they should not share their private keys to anyone. Only they should share is ERC address.

Most of them make this mistake as either they missout on saving the private keys or else save it in their bitcointalk forum account I lost access to my blockchain wallet due to same stupidity in the past and they should save the private key in their email to keep it secure and accessible.

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Quote from: Samboo on October 20, 2019, 08:52:57 AM

Still many of newbies are not aware of their private keys. I see some of them do provide private keys to get some free tokens either from airdrops or from fake bounty projects. Some of them unknowingly save their private keys on their Bitcoin Forum account. In fact I did save my private keys on my bitcoin account. Newbies should know the fact that they should not share their private keys to anyone. Only they should share is ERC address.

Newbies always mistaken that private keys are also their wallet address. I've encountered a lot even before. They just dont understand that their private key is the heart of their wallet, once it was stolen or given to other person, the chances to compromised their wallet is 100%.
It is clear when creating a wallet, an instruction was posted to avoid giving or sending private keys to anyone, they should know and understand it very well.

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Quote from: Alluro on August 23, 2019, 06:00:34 AM

The best thing is you can save all the keystore files, private keys in a safe place. If you save them on your computer, keep in touch with your computer security.

yes, if storing it on a computer and the computer is still protected by security, I think the keystore remains safe. if not because of his carelessness, the keystore will never disappear, I think this is a very simple problem.

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Still many of newbies are not aware of their private keys. I see some of them do provide private keys to get some free tokens either from airdrops or from fake bounty projects. Some of them unknowingly save their private keys on their Bitcoin Forum account. In fact I did save my private keys on my bitcoin account. Newbies should know the fact that they should not share their private keys to anyone. Only they should share is ERC address.

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You should always have control over your private keys and secret phrases. Write them down, create a USB stick only for those purposes or make a separate file, but you should have those files accessible at any moment.

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is that kidding or is it deliberately not knowing?
private key is not supposed to be published or told to others, because it is the key to unlock assets,
and I believe the incident was done because he might be upset not to get airdrop and it should not be done because according to ethics it is not appropriate to do.

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Quote from: Mighty_crypt on August 23, 2019, 04:33:23 AM

Quit underestimating wallets and figure out how your wallets works either its ETH erc20 based wallets or multi walllets,you lose your private keys or recovery seeds you lose your coins and tokens,I was in a gathering on message when somebody posted his private key guaranteeing he didn't get an airdrop tokens,I wonder what may have transpired as of now,its like some still don't have the foggiest idea how genuine there wallets recovery seeds and private keys are,quit playing with wallet private keys and take them more serious like you doing with your bank account.

My question is the air drop tokens are worth the embarrassment. Did he even know that he is giving the whole wallet or what. I am sure that not all newbies are this ignorant but it will be better to help them as early as possible. I hope you told him not to do that again or else I predict another post about a newbie being hacked will surface once again. It really needs to be said that the security of your wallet starts with you. Be cautious, doubt the unknown especially if you won't earn anything from it. It is bettet safe than to be sorry.

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sometimes people have the attitude of forgetting if you have trading experience when prices fall will definitely rise and when prices rise there will definitely be a time to fall so that it makes traders come back like a newbie trader because he might forget and accidentally.

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A place for orientation is needed, in which newbies will be properly educated on how to keep their assets safe. Although, there are several of the! Online.
Not only newbies make mistakes, those who have been in the space for years can also do thee same.

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I believe that those people who somewhere reported their private keys, themselves to blame for the fact that their funds are stolen. Those people who cant take care of the security of their funds, most likely should not engage in cryptocurrency.

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Nobody should expose their private key whether newbie or they are veteran within this ecosystem and I think iltgst coil have been done erroneously or the person in question is downright stupid

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Quote from: Mighty_crypt on August 23, 2019, 04:33:23 AM

Quit underestimating wallets and figure out how your wallets works either its ETH erc20 based wallets or multi walllets,you lose your private keys or recovery seeds you lose your coins and tokens,I was in a gathering on message when somebody posted his private key guaranteeing he didn't get an airdrop tokens,I wonder what may have transpired as of now,its like some still don't have the foggiest idea how genuine there wallets recovery seeds and private keys are,quit playing with wallet private keys and take them more serious like you doing with your bank account.

I really don't know what to feel with this. He just posted his pk just to prove that it is empty? So what if it's not in the next days? We need to tell them the importance of pks and it's not just any key, it is the only password that can access the wallet. I hope he will be last one to do that but if someone else do that, I wouldn't feel sorry if they'll be hacked.

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Private key as the name implies should be private to the owner of the wallet. Exposing it is inimical to one's financial well being

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Those newbies are not following some rules or not have read on what they need to do. Well its a lesson for them for not having to secure of what important to them. And they read some important news in this forum maybe they can get more information and can learn so much to avoid those on what mistake doing in the past.

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Is really a crazy thing to do but once you get wiped out the first time am sure people will begin to take note and trend really carefully to avoid making thesame mistake twice I mean cmon is a private key even MEW state that in red ink

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I always backup privatekey and keystore file but now im using metamask and then i wanna buy hardwallet to safe my assets crypto, always bookmark MEW website or website you can trust and i cant trust when project ICO/IEO,airdrop,or bounty must be send privatekey to claim rewards
Always be careful when you fill the form or something and always check everything is correct

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I've always seen private keys of newbies especially in twitter and facebook campaign spreadsheets. We can't blame them too because they are new, What we can blame here is those who taught them because they didn't teach most important thing! To keep and be responsible for holding their own private keys

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Quote from: barabarian1 on October 18, 2019, 01:49:05 PM

in my opinion this is common for beginners because they are not accustomed to using digital wallets and are less careful about storing keys or seeds. or don't understand that what they are telling you is a private key. but over time they will learn a lot and understand. someone is said to be stupid when he always makes the same mistakes. not take lessons from previous experience.

beginners do sometimes make lots of mistakes but there are some beginners who make these mistakes as an experience to learn more. and usually beginners who make mistakes they don't have people who teach them and are also lazy to read some of the references

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