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.
They got to learn their lessons right? Let them lose few coins and then they will either run away or be more careful next time. Well, they are newbies. What else can you expect from them? Give them some time. They will eventually get to learn how to keep their wallets safe. They will get to know how to secure their private keys and why they are important. Unfortunately, those people just hear about making profit with crypto currencies and thus they also join to make profit. They have little knowledge about the technology and how it works. They need to educate themselves first in this field if they ever wants to keep their funds secured. 
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Sure it's a big mistake giving others your private keys and if that wallet contains a lot of tokens, I think he's not aware of what he's doing. There are newbies that are desperate for the airdrops.
And there are abusers who creates a form that asks for their private keys. Some newbies think that it's fine to give it but they don't know that the consequence is really big on their part especially if it contains their lifesavings.
And there are abusers who creates a form that asks for their private keys. Some newbies think that it's fine to give it but they don't know that the consequence is really big on their part especially if it contains their lifesavings.
They are newbies or amateurs so what do you expect? I had a friend who sent someone his private keys lucky enough there wasn't any good coin there, so I had to take time to teach him all the things he needs to learn. So instead of seeing them as those who doesn't know anything let's teach them so they can be better.
You know what...using such words sometimes should come with carefulness. You think it's easy fir people to know thier way around in crypto? moreover you said "newbies" so what's there to say more? They basically don't know what they're doing so you should better make a post on teaching them the better way rather than insulting. People really struggled to learn crypto and safety measures buddy. You may not know how bad they qere educated to get in.
I think the failed to understand the meaning of the world "private" because it they do then they will know that private key is meant to be personal. However, in any given chance we should try and educate them on certain things like how to secure private keys, backup phrase etc so we all can grow together.
The newbie mistakes should be expected no matter how educated they are. If there weren't the mistakes the learning process will slow down from my perspective. Sharing the private key is the foolish, scam airdrops use this fact for hunting the new investors. Sad, but true.
Lastpass is the main password saving program, but it is also server based which makes it less secure. I have used their service for a long time but later the alternative methods attracted my interest. It is not vulnerable as the Google passwords but you need to believe their promises blindly.
What are your thoughts about saving them in a software like LastPass?
Lastpass is the main password saving program, but it is also server based which makes it less secure. I have used their service for a long time but later the alternative methods attracted my interest. It is not vulnerable as the Google passwords but you need to believe their promises blindly.
I think such immature actions are only done by some real greedy and wannabe rich quick kind of people and secondly such behavior is expected from airdrop or some new hunters as well because they think they have not put anything out of pocket so it is safe to share even private keys, they need to learn that one day they will be able to earn good from some campaigns and then how will they feel if someone hacks their account because they posted their private keys publicly online few months back? People need to be more responsible and rationale in what they do.
What are your thoughts about saving them in a software like LastPass?
Many beginners do not know the actual function of the "private key" so that they are easily fooled when dealing with phishing, form tricks for filling private keys, etc. Many beginners get caught up in that, and they will learn from experience
There are still so many scam airdrops asking in their forms people to send their private keys. It is happening mostly for the Etereum ERC20 wallets. Newbies with a lack of knowledge made this mistake many times, and lost big amounts of Ethereum and valuable tokens. Private keys should never being revealed to anyone else.
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.
After was hasked a very long e-mail password cracked and lost several wallets, I do not leave any passwords and secret keys in my device, and also turned off data backup. I keep everything in paper form, as well as on a separate disk, which I almost never use. I enter the secret key manually without copying. If you need to copy a long key, first I first change 1-2 characters in it. After that, there have been no failures so far. 
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.
a safe place that cannot be accessed by hackers is an offline place without being connected to the internet. can use the flash with additional security such as files that are compressed to RAR with a password. would be very safe. 
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.
therefore we are more careful in securing a personal wallet because all the assets we have are in it. beginners do like to try because they are curious and still need a lot of experience. there is nothing wrong if done but if it has happened then just think of it as learning so that in the future you know and do not repeat the same mistakes again.
I cannot believe that such people are still here. There are thousands of threads on this forum where is stated that you should never provide a private key to anyone, but it seems like people would likely lose their account, rather than to spend some time by reading posts here.
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.
Wow, it's quite unfortunate that people enter the cryptocurrency space without getting information on the basis. The most important aspect of one's journey in this space is the security of wallet. I do hope that people entering the industry would take some time to study and familiarise themselves with the necessary modalities.
It should not be repeated to share a private key, it is very stupid, must ask or learn from experience, if you continue to lose tokens
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.
If the wallet where he is posting his private keys do not have coins anymore or no coins are coming then it's up to him to show or give his private key, but it's not a good practice, even if that is a useless wallet, we never know, like for example, you entered it in an airdrop or a give away and the coins came when you already exposed your private key.
We must be responsible and educated never exposed our private key, and always learn how to protect it at all cost, remember the last guy who claims to be Nakamoto stated that he lost his private key through negligence.
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.
Nothing much here to discuss, the Private key share was that of an airdrop wallet meaning the newbie must have been an airdrop hunter which I'm very positive they don't earn much to worry about their funds been stolen. In most cases this guys (Airdrops hunters) have numerous wallet for different campaign so some of the case you think are mistakes aren't.
On the other hand, ignorance is the cause of this problem, just like the user above me mentioned, if you consider the security of your coins as a priority, spending some time to get educated on how to safely store your sensitive wallet information should be your number priority. But instead most newbies aren't concerned about that which is why, they get punished by the scammers out there. The good news here is that, those experiences (lost of funds) comes with lesson and since experience they say, is the best teacher. It's quite ok they make this silly mistake now (involving less funds) and learn from then.
Let them learn from their mistakes and lose their money if they are so lazy just to read the necessary information on the forum.So much is written about wallets.The first thing to think about is the safety of your funds.
This is a financial system. Each hunter takes his accounts seriously. Let's say I have constant monitoring. Many copies of the hard disk and data. I do not want to lose access to my financial instrument.
One thing to understand. No one can help us if we lose access.
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