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Title: Trusting Online Wallets? How to Protect your Coins
Post by: ThePanCakeKid95 on December 08, 2013, 03:30:09 PM
Recently I have had people asking me about online wallets, I personally warn you against this and offer an alternative of securing your wallet.dat local files instead.

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Title: Re: Trusting Online Wallets? How to Protect your Coins
Post by: LiteCoinGuy on December 08, 2013, 04:29:51 PM
yeah true for now but sometime in the future (some years ahead) we need an exchange with insurance.


Title: Re: Trusting Online Wallets? How to Protect your Coins
Post by: bryant.coleman on December 08, 2013, 04:49:49 PM
yeah true for now but sometime in the future (some years ahead) we need an exchange with insurance.

Hmmm... entire exchanges are vanishing overnight without a trace (a la GBL of China) and you are talking about exchange insurance. Insurance for BTC exchanges is not economically feasible for any future BTC Insurance company. The risk from hacking / stealing / fraud is exponentially higher.


Title: Re: Trusting Online Wallets? How to Protect your Coins
Post by: ThePanCakeKid95 on December 08, 2013, 05:16:36 PM
yea, I agree so for the time being it's paper wallets, cold storage and encrypting wallet.dat files