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What would be a better move ? to keep most of my crypto in Exchanges as seems better option. as with the constant flows - green to reds etc.
in order to make gains or min loss, it seems best to trade a red one to green
eg as today i had lots of reds, but to min loss, i took some of my ETH and verge and traded into XRP which mooned and now my gains are way up
as i keep this crypto thing a constant watch.

What do you all suggest?

i use a Coinomi wallet that is connected to Changelly and SHapeshift
so i do exchanges there.

What do you all recommend?

i am thinking just a wallet for holding a currency for long term and no intention to trade out? just add to? thoughts

It depends on your situation and state of mind.
If you are into trading and want to trade, keeping them in the exchange would be fine as I am suggesting it based on the fee they charge to withdraw every time, else keeping them under your possession (wallets because you will have private keys with you).
Still, don't trust small exchanges too much because when larger exchanges could get DDoS attacks, I don't think that smaller ones will be left as due to the rise in the value of Bitcoins as well as alts too, hackers will definitely try to get their hands either on the data of customers to blackmail exchanges and ask for Bitcoins in return of that data not to be leaked (Ransomware) or they might use the data to simply withdraw the coins and dump over the market. And seeing your concern that you are interested in holding something for long term, wallets will be the best thing.

Don't keep money on exchanges then you don't have to worry about the biggest target ever getting hacked and you lose everything. You're a small fish in the ocean when you hold your own private keys. Even better? A hardware or paper wallet. Then no one even knows these bitcoin are in your possession.

No never that to now. Many big exchanges like bittrex , poloniex , bitfinex are suddenly asking for verification and blocking users funds. Many even submitted there documents but it is still locked i would suggest you to trade on a exchange and withdraw instantly.
I also use shapeshift it doesn't have many coins so instead i transfer to exchange and withdraw instantly.

And also it's better if you buy a ledger or a trezor it's really important now storing on your pc also has many risks involved.

I'll probably repeat what most of other people say. If you want to trade daily,keep your money in exchanges. If you buy to HODL, then keep them in  wallet. Best is offline/paper wallet of course, but online wallets are fine as wel  if you don't have much money yet.

My advice for you sir is never keep most of your btc and altcoins in an exchange quite too long, I'm not saying that exchanges are not trustworthy, all I'm saying is there are risks on it. Yes! You can still access your crypto there like in a wallet but the difference is there's now other than you (which is the exchange) who has the authority to access it also. Knowing that fact is quite alarming, right?

If I were you, I will only put some amount of my coins in an exchange, trade it and withdraw after making a profit as early as possible. Wallets are still the best option to store yout coins, it's 100% safe (as long as you keep your username and passwords secret).

If you don't plan to trade it would be best to keep your coins in a waller rather than an exchange.

i think i agree with most of the other comments in this thread. You have to take your intentions and mindset into account. If part of you wants to trade coins and make money off of the peaks then keep some money in an exchange. If another part of you finds tokens that you trust will be solid in the future then HODL those into a wallet cuz that is your safest option against hacks.

Keep some coins in cold storage and also keep an amount you are willing to lose on exchanges. Preferably an exchange with margin trading so a smaller amount goes a longer way and you dont need as much. Only deposit more if you are facing a margin call. But hopefully all your trades are profits. Then divy your profits into thirds: One third stays on the exchange. One thing goes into a coin as a long term investment. One third is sold and withdrawn.

If you are trading then keeping your coins in exchanges is the best way to counter the transaction charges,but if you are planning to hold for the long term i would prefer to move to your own wallet rather than trusting these online wallet,because you never know what will happen to your coins if there is a hack of some sort.

Have it in mind that you're not legit own of every coin you save on exchange because you're not the holder of the wallet private keys. What I do is use 2 wallet, 1 for exchange and other for my private storage. I forward coins I'm about to sell to exchange site while I forward the coin I want to hold for long to my private wallet.

All options are in your hands. But if you ask for advice, we better also save some of our assets in Exchangers, because we can more quickly participate in the ups and downs of the price of coins that we hold. 30% in the exchanger and 70% in the wallet will be safer from our hands who like itchy want All in. :)

If you hold that coin for longterm for the better keep it in personal wallet because when we keep the coin in that wallet, that mean we have full control with our money because we have the private key. So keep coin in exchange only for trading and for longterm invesment will be more safe keep it in personal wallet like Coinomi.

Most of the altcoins take very less time to send and receive coins then why you want to take a risk by storing your coins in exchanges? Because we can't guess when these exchanges will close or face some issues and block our accounts. So I never store my coins in any exchanges after purchasing I will move those coins to my personal wallets. Also, I'm not into day trading so it is not safe to store in exchanges.

It's a good question to answer because it all depends on one's need, mindset and approach towards the trading and investing. If you are a longterm trader and if you don't mind in keeping the coins in your exchange for longer period of time for trading or holding purposes then its ok to go with this options. And suppose you don't want to risk your coins by holding them into your exchange website if you are not a regular trader then you better use a wallet which is connected to your country, something like zebpay. Hope you got understood.

Most people will give you advice to keep your crypto on wallet not exchange, more safe I believe. Exchange is only place to trade not to keep, so please fix the mindset. We all know, most people still use MEW as their wallet but safety to protect MEW is needed. So, you can choose any wallet you want but please never keep your crypto ( asset ) in exchange. See you next time.

In my humble opinion, try a day trade or a weekly trade to make sure of profits. Its better to develop experience from these trades specially today that most of the altcoins pumps.

Its much better keep in personal wallet because more safe than keep in exchange, as we know many exchange got hacked now and this is will be risky to keep all coin in any exchange. Keep in personal wallet like coinomi that we own the private key more secure because we have full control with our money . Use coinnomi or other personal wallet to hold many different coin for long term investment is more safe and less risk than sory later.

the trading strategy that you are using is what will determine what you should do. obviously holding altcoins in their wallets is a pain in the ass and in some cases even risky since they may contain malwares! but holding on exchanges is also risky since they can scam you at any moment.

if your strategy is a short term trading the altcoins to maximize your profit on your bitcoin or money and getting out. then the best thing is to keep them on exchanges to be able to dump them fast and only get the bitcoin in and out of exchanges and store it in your cold storage.

Wallet usually got a better security and it's safer, so if you want to hold the coin for a long time without touching it then go for wallet, saving your coin in trading platform is only for trading purposes, dont save too many things in exchanges because, exchanges got a pretty bad reputation, it can suddenly close and run away with your coin

if you are a daily trader, just keep your asset on an exchange market / trading platform. but if you are a long term investor, just store your asset on a safe wallet where you have full access into it.

based on my experience, becoming a daily trader to gain profit is good, but after do some calculation I realized that the profit that I got from trading is less than the profit that I might get from holding and do nothing  ;D.
not sure if I am a bad trader or a bad holder. or both?

For me it is better to keep all the crypto you are holdings in your wallet because sometimes you can forget the coins you are holding because you cannot see it if you scan. If your crypto holdings is in your wallet you can assure that it is safe and you can easily detect which coin has the calue because you can easily scan it.

Maybe your timing isn't right? IMO, and if you feel that way then try swing trading or just hold it. Day trading needs to be skillful and closely monitoring the market.

I'd rather do the long method rather than risking my coins in exchanges. We all know that if anything happens in exchanges they'll not refund what had been loss so better keep safe our coin in wallet. Exchanges isn't a wallet and it's solely for trading.

Even if you want to trade daily, only keep the fraction of money you can afford to lose in your exchange wallet to trade because nothing is guaranteed. Also, what I do is to make use of about 3 reputable exchanges (at least for now, as they all start out as reputable until they start acting up), and then with that, have some rest of mind a little that all of them cannot just close up at once. If you are holding anyway, the best is just to stick with a hardware wallet or at least a wallet where you have control over your funds.

You might want to leave them in a platform or a cryptocurrency wallet the choice is yours. But please make sure you make a very good choice of the platform or wallet you want to use, by making a researching about it, reading their recent review, the service they offer. Choice a platform or wallet which have an excellent support service.
 This will enable you have answers to your  problem when the time comes. Hopefully, you won't encounter any problems.

Unless trading on a very regular basis, swapping out altcoins or trading them for BTC, it would never be wise to use exchanges as a medium for storage. Exchanges are the prime targets of hackers and since coins will actually be in the exchange's hot wallet, a breach would result in coins being lost. I would always prefer storing coins on standalone clients such as Electrum for Bitcoin.

I will like to approach this, this way:

What is your target or intention.
Do you want to trade and keep trading? If yes, then keep it in the exchnage.
Do you want to HODL, ie yes then keep it in your water.

Private wallets are better secured and less prone to hacks, even if hacked, there is a high chance you will not loose your cash/coins.
NOte: hacks are real oooh.

Yea, I’m also in support of keeping your Bitcoins in your wallet, and not on trading sites, though I don’t really know how it works when you’re keeping your Bitcoins in a trading platform, but one thing I’m very sure is that real wallets can have more safer options to choose from… like you can go with hardware of paper wallets if you’re more concerned about your safety.

To prevent the loss of all your labours and coins do not ever make the mistake of leaving any of your cryptocurrencies in any trading platform Because there I always a tendency of been hacked or any sort of missing coins. You never can trust this platform. You should put your coins in a extremely secured wallet, remember you are your bank. When those coins are gone, its never coming back.
 

Both have advantages and disadvantages.

Exchange (Advantages)

- Easy to trade at any given time ones token(s) are deposited
- Lesser transaction fees

Exchange (Disadvantages)

- Security can be compromised in one way or the other.
- Some Exchange platforms are shady
- Withdrawal, at times, seems impossible or costly.

Wallet (Advantage)

- 100% access to your funds/ tokens
- The security depends on you alone (as you have its private key)
- Easier to watch/manage (Growth and Values).
- Altcoins Compatibility rate is high.
- Swapping and Staking

Wallet (Disadvantages)

- You lose all your funds/tokens and also your wallet ones your private key is stolen
- Higher transaction fees when trading

Exchange is better if you're into day-to-day trading while Private Wallet is good for Hodlers.

In fact, these are the main reasons why no one holding should even bother be looking forward to leaving their funds in an exchange wallet because at the end, you will really end up suffering such a move.

A lot of them ask for verification due to the policies surrounding where they operate and I really do not blame them and until we start having decentralized exchanges before we can really say it is good enough to keep funds in an exchange wallet.

I think it all depends on you as long as it keeps it in a safe place but I personally usually keep it in exchange because I often use it for trading.

It sure safer in the wallet so long as your wallet or laptop is safe as well. I have some on exchanges because I think I'm going to cash them out anytime soon too. If you are like me who is on the move like a wanted outlaw, you might find your tokens safer in exchanges. Having a verified account in bittrex I think is ALMOST safe.

Some people trust the security level of the exchanges and they say with 2fa system, it's better to store the coins on exchange platforms. Some others are more conservative and they claim that coins must be stored in your personal wallet, that's your selection.

It depends really. If you are actively trading there is no point keeping your bitcoins or altcoins in your own wallet, is it? The main reason you are keeping them are that you are trading and it would extremely be a drag that you need to move funds in and out of your wallet and the exchange just to keep safe if you are trading. The only time it is best to keep your coins in your own wallet is when you are holding it for the long run.

Keep crypto anywhere always consist some risk:
-Trading: exchange disapper, exchange hacked, lost 2FA key...
-Personal wallet: Lost hardware wallet, lost private key, forget that we have a wallet with money...

It's best to keep most of your portfolio in your wallets and only keep on exchanges what you need for trading or selling/buying purposes. I personally don't think it's a very good idea to hold coins on exchanges in case of some exchange big bang. I have been hacked more on exchanges than in my wallets and now use 2fa for my exchanges as well, which makes it safer for me to work that way.

Wherever you keep your coins localy, wallets or exchangers, there is certain risk of being compromised by hacker attack, malware or something.
Still exchangers are more vulnerable than wallets so it's not recommended to keep your coins there except the amount you want to trade.
Exchangers are not meant to be wallets.
And when you choose the wallet be aware that online wallets are less secure than others.

I think its better to put it on your wallet,  if you want to wait until the value increases,  that way you will have a peace of mind that your tokens is on a safe place,  theres alot of hackers nowadays so make sure you keep them safe. 

for me some big exchange is good to keep my coin. save coin on your pc is more dangerous

Obviously better decision to store coin in own wallet. It should not keep all coins in exchanger. All the exchanger are not trusted. Sometimes exchanger have to hack by the hackers. Storing coin in own wallet is very safe and secure.

You should learn from the past , where a big exchange could still quit badly. Scam a lot of people with huge amount of money, better to make a prevention action before things ended up badly. Put the whole money you have always in the wallet whenever you have done to trade.

anyone newbie hear about mt.gox :D If you know this so you have your answer

the smart investor wont just keep their coins in just one PLATFORM or just Wallet, but they will use both of them, because they can use small amount of cryptos to works on trading platforms like exchanges and the rest will be saved in wallets to be used in the future. this will also keep them save from hackers that wont take all of their money.

I don't keep my bitcoin or altcoins on the exchange because it is very risky. I use an online service the Multi-coin wallet called CoinPayments.net. in coinpayments you can store up to 60+ different coins.

As long as you are holding, it is always best to look for a wallet where you have full control, which you cannot get in a centralized exchange wallet. I have always preferred just holding a hardware wallet and then with that, I am rest assured that I have full access to all my funds and no exchange will wake up one day and decide to lock me out of my account or close down without any notice.

We would not really need a soothsayer to tell us this that keeping your assets in a wallet is the most risky thing to ever do. It is best when you have the private keys to the wallet we are using as that makes it easy to have full control over our funds than when something ends up happening to an exchange and then we may see ourselves losing virtually all the funds that we have.

I think Wallet is the best way. Exchangers are not meant to be wallets.
You put your coin at your own wallet for long term. Some Exchanger is risky for hold altcoin.

It good to have both some amount on exchange and some on wallet. Off course we will have problems with both of them but this is normal we always forget password or pass phaze or something else.

I understand that your question bothers on the risk of losing your investment. To keep in exchanges or wallets depends on your market position/approach. If you are an investor, it's best you withdraw to wallets were you control your private keys but if you are a trader, I'm sorry, you will have to keep your coins on the exchange to facilitate trading and avoid unnecessary charges due to constant withdrawal and deposition of funds. It however poses greater risk as exchanges are prone to hacks. In all monitor your funds, guard your wallet/exchange keys/login details. Protect your funds and you'll be safe.

Personally, I advise the exchange to keep only a small amount necessary for exchange or trade. All the rest is best kept on local wallets. Niodna exchange is not insured against hacking. You can store the wallet file in several places at the same time and your savings will not be lost even if the hard drive fails.

Most Exchange now upgrading their system but still there is no assurance that its safe to put all your money their, personally I use both to store my holdings and so far I don't have any problem and hopefully most of the exchanges will be fully safe in the future.

Kepp money only on big exchanges like Binance or Bittrex, cause small one are hacked so often. Etherdelta was hacked recently and a lot of people lost huge amount. So at least don't keep your funds on etherdelta. For a long term investment, MEW is preferable, but if you are an active trader, for sure keep on big exchanges

If you are doing a daily trade its good to have it on exchanges but for holding a wallet is a must if its available, depends on your purpose. Much better to hold a coin in your wallet and yes to add more if you wanted.

One alternative to storing lots of bitcoin is on the big exchange, but there is a better and safer way that is by storing Bitcoin in offline wallet like electrum and also save another Altcoin in the official wallet provided. It is a crypto storage for a long time and most importantly we keep a private key. That is the main key to access the wallet that we have. Oh yes if you are a mobility person may choose to use mobile wallet that can be accessed from smartphone, but I suggest not to store too much balance there.

I don't think it is wise to keep coins in exchanges, as they can be hacked. Wallet would be the best option. Although, you can keep those coins that you want to trade daily and withdraw others to wallet.

maybe store some on safe wallet like exodus ...

and store some on exchange for daily trade or invest on altcoin :D ....

but if just hold then safe it on cold storage ....

It depends on what you are up to. If you are into trading, then might as well keep your cryptos in trading platforms. On the other hand, if you are just HODLING your cryptos, it is better to keep it in your wallets for safety and security purposes. You have to very well distinguish your objectives and make it at par with your actions so as to help you materialize long-term goals.

It's a bad idea to keep your hodlings on an exchange. Whatever you are holding long term should be in cold storage. If you're actively trading then it may be best to keep it on an exchange as you would have to transfer on and off every single day and occur massive fees that would seriously add up and deplete your capital.

Don’t use exchanges to store your coins. They can’t be trusted. If you do trading, you can put some cryptocurrencies on those exchanges just while you are trading, but keep the bulk of your portfolio in offline wallets or wallets where you control the private keys. Exchanges have a tendency to have problems and they can get hacked or just steal your money.

I personally use a wallet to store my holdings, and i have more in my trading wallet. it is best (for me) to have both wallets to easily use all because you can't just use all you BTC for trading.

in short you are doing it half by half right? like half was stored and hald was in the exchange waiting to sell right?

Keeping coin on a commercial site or on a wallet is up to you. If you want to trade every day to increase your coin number then surely you have to let your coin on the trading page to do business. If you do not want to do business and just want to keep your coin, make sure keeping coin on your wallet is the safest way for your property, you can keep it on your wallet online, offline wallet or hard wallet is also very good.

Yes, what is the point giving a third party a control over your funds when you really do not have plans to trade it anyway. What everyone have said is totally right, use an exchange only if you know you want to buy some alts, and as long as you are not going to be trading, just keep off totally.

A lot of people have lost their funds by keeping their funds in exchange wallet and to be forewarned is to be forearmed.

I think store your capital in exchanger just the capital that you will use for trading. If you wish to store only without trading i think store in a walett that you keep the private key. Its more safe than.

If you are not a day trader and if you are just swing trader then it is a good idea to just keep your coins in their wallets because if you will put it on exchange or trading platforms and keep it there for long term then there is a high chance that you will lose them because of the possible cyber attacks that can be engaged by the hackers around the internet.

I think it should be split in 2 to coin your coin. You leave your wallet offline so secure, but if you need something to move back and forth, it's a bit difficult for you, not to mention that you lose your private key can not get back. For a wallet you can use it to trade at any time, trade more easily but you will also fear if the trading floor disappears, you will also lose property.

in my opinion, you better keep all the krypto in the wallet, because it's much safer, but remember keep all the important data in the safe folder. while if you keep it on your trading platform it's a bit more complicated and the security is not enough.

as your condition , if you want trading it how can it place on wallet:P

but if you want hold it and if its huge ammount better keep in wallet ,

already repeatedly talked about hacking hacks and other unpleasant processes with them, not trusting the funds to third parties. The conclusion is only one, you only need to save your funds in the place where you manage. If you are an active trader, it is better to store only the coins that you trade on the exchange

Is depend on yours strategy keeping or storing coins in online exchange are risky have possibly hached your investment, if have have daily activities in trade using online exchange is okay to staynor money inside the exchang and make sure you have an strong passwords.

If you hold cryptos for long investment and big amounts, then you better keep them in a hardware wallet! If is for trading , keep them to a hot wallet !

Indeed, crypto exchanges are not to be trusted. Always left what you can afford to lose. I normally use Coinomi app or CoinPayments.net to store my both bitcoin and altcoins, of course. I don't really trade everyday, though I used to checked the market quite often to see the most performing coins and invest to them. 

Because some exchange has issue of hacking so much better keep the coin in personal wallet that we have the private key so we have full control with the coin. This is good choice and will be more safe if you would like to hold the coin for long term investment. But if you would like doing short trading just keep in exchange to be more efisien to buy and sell, but dont put all coin keep in 1 exchange, use minimum 2 exchange to be more safe.

If you want to trad you should choose the exchange, otherwise, keep them in your wallet.

It is always recommended to keep your coins in the wallets which private are in your control.

Well anyone who wants to be safe with their btcs and alts would choose to leave those that they're trading with in the exchange while safekeeping moat of their funds in a paper or hard wallet. Ypu'll never know when an exchange would have problems

As a trader it's imperative to keep your funds in an exchange so you have them on hand to take advantage of any opportunities or quickly crash out on bad news. If you are passively investing then it is wise to withdraw funds to a wallet so that they are much safer in the event of the exchange being hacked or so.

Leaving your coins on cryptocurrency exchange is very risky because they have some many issues from hacking attacks to sabotage. In fact, an exchange platform can go down anytime because we have seen what happened to Mt. Gox and VirCurrex - they are all down today because hacking issues, maintenance negligence, and sabotage that led many people to losing their investments. Therefore, I prefer storing my coins in Coinpayments.net and as you mention Coinomi wallet for android for me and my coins safety. :)

It all depends on the personal mindset and style of trading whether how they want to trade the crypto coins whether you are interested in investing or day trading or swing trading. If you can see I always use exchanges for day trading alone and for holding the coins for longer-term and swing trading the coins for few weeks then i go for wallet like Zebpay which is more secure than exchanges and nowadays there are tons of problems with exchanges going on, and i can see the issues clearly which is mentioned in this forum posts .

Even if he set strong passwords to the exchange wallets still it is highly secured so it is better to keep in the wallets if there is no intention of trading them.Because keeping crypto in online wallets or exchange is highly unsecured because they can shut down the exchange at any time and can take all your money.

They have 2fa security, but you can trust this completely.

That's why people use private wallets and hardware wallets to store their assets. This is a more secure way of storing your assets in your private wallets.

if you are regular trader then keep them in big and trusted exchanges like binance , if you are going to hold any coin for long term then store that in any hardware wallets or paper wallet .

It is always better and more secure to keep your tokens in your wallet, because even the most secured exchangers could being hacked or affected one day, and recently there was an attempt of hacking Etherdelta which is known as one of the most secured and decentralized exchangers online.

As trusted as the exchange are, I really wouldn't keep big amounts of them. I always keep just enough funds for trading purposes and if I think that my money is already growing, I will take out some of it, deposit on my wallet where I can have full control of the private keys. Well a hardware wallet much better.


Yes, exactly my point. Look at what happens to BTC-e. It was suddenly taken down by the US authorities. Although the money has been returned through IOU, but you wouldn't like that to happened to you, specially if you have huge amounts, I mean in the thousands of USD in there.

A safe place to store cryptos that are stored in cold wallets if demand is not frequent. If you trade, you may consider cryptos stored on trading platforms. You should choose some reputable trading platforms such as Binance, Hibtc, Bitfinex, Poloniex, etc.

Don't trust trading platforms. They can claim anytime they got hacked and no one will know if they are behind that or not. Keep it on your wallets for better security.

Keep all of your cryptocurrencies into their respective wallet because that is the safest place for you to put your cryptocurrencies but if you want to be safer then you should find some hardware wallet or offline wallet that you can use to store your cryptocurrencies which is much better than storing it on online wallets. Just keep your crypto in a trading platform if you are a short term investor or trader.

Yes it is better to hold coins in their respective wallet so that it is store in the safest place on which only you can know it and also in the exchanger it is not good to hold coins there because sometimes it become hack that cannot be recover if it is send to another people already that's why it is important for the account to have a 2fa in order to protect it and only you can access it.

I keep long-term assets in my wallet. The assets that I trade on the exchange. Those assets that I am going to sell in the next month do not go to my wallet, so as not to pay a commission for withdrawal.

First, you must accept the fact that if you do not own the private key to your coin,  it simply means it is not yours.  With this thought in mind you could put all your coin in add ñ exchange when trading.  When you finish trading you put a significant sum if your holding to a wallet that you control.

It's better to use exchange wallet on its purpose, if you will going trade then you place your coins inside your trusted exchange then do business,
but if you are going to hold and store your coins better to have your own one inside your computer where you can fully secured and keep it in safe,
we do have reason why we need to use certain wallets, the main idea is always secured your assets even trusted exchange also prone from hackers
and we can never say if until when they can be safe from those attackers.

I diversified my coins. 70% of it is stored in my wallet and the remaining 30% in my exchange account. I left the 30% there so that whenever I wanted to do scalp grading, I have coins to sell. If you are not doin scalp trading or day trading, it is advisable to store your coins on your wallet specially hardwallet for better security.

Currently, altcoin exchange requires account verification for each user. Well, if you have verified your account. I think, keeping on wallet exchange is a great way because there we can grow our investment faster than keeping in wallet.

Exchanges are not wallets and that is not their primary purpose so it's not suggested to keep the coins there long term and in biger amounts.
Use them for trading and upload the amount you want to trade, everyrhing else it should be kept in the wallet. It's more secure, especialy if you combine more different wallets.

I keep 80% crypto coins in exchanges and 20 % in other wallets.  But when market goes down I can't resist me to transfer coins from other wallets to exchanges. If I keep all coins on exchanges all the time it makes me excite to take more risk. And sometimes I book losses  . So recommend to keep it in wallets as well as exchanges both.

Well, exchanges can't be trusted, you trade and withdraw you coins. If you want to hold for long-term, then it would be better you choose offline wallet, which would be safer for you.

That’s the simplest explanation for it, but at any time I would say we must keep the funds in wallets only. The reason for this is current unplanned bans over the exchangers and trading platforms. So if you are up to date with the news around us then you can feel the ban rates have been increased a lot these days. Starting from the china to Korea and even small countries like Indonesia etc got their country people banned from using the crypto currency. How we could really trust the exchangers in such Cold War. Better keep them safe in the wallets and take them out whenever we need to exchange them.

The best option we have is to keep all the coin your own wallet after buying them in exchanges because we have seen many scams happened to exchanges. So there is no specific guarantee even though you secure your wallet. My humble suggestion keep your coins in your own wallet in order to be safe.

If you are trading just put it in exchanges for you to use it anytime and no more hassle when transferring and no fees. If your only holding your coins for long term purposes then you can put it in your hard wallet for safe keeping.

Is it really need to put those coin in hard wallet?  I mean my coin is just on my account i don't have hard wallet to keep it safe because i know this is already safe.

In large exchanges it is possible to keep part of his cryptocurrencies for trading, but most of the best stored in cold wallets for long term storage. But still no 100% no-risk ways to store cryptocurrency. You can only choose the least risky ways. Exchanges can be attacked by hackers, closed, etc.

For safety reasons you cannot calculate like large exchange or small scale. In the hackers point of view, many of them lost the bitcoins in the trading site alone when comparing with the online wallet. Even that online wallet also been hacked individually not a complete wallet as of now.
So I suggest to keep your fund on wallet for safety concerns, if you keep on exchanging the coins to different one you can better have on the trading sites. There are some scam sites also there so be careful in that.

Right now i've got most coins on exchanges. Reason is i didnt invest very much so far and withdrawing fees are just too high.

i guess we are doing the same strategy i keep all my traded coin to my exchange wallet so anytime i want to trade it is always available and my longterm coin i keep it in my wallet not connected to any exchange.

Please, if you are going to store your cryptos on an exchange, at least, be sure that you have your account verified.
If they suddenly want to change their policies, they can do it without any further explanation.  So be careful with that.. Hardware wallets are always going to be the best thing that you can do.

If you keep the bitcoin on the trading exchange platform, keep a small amount of money for transactions, the solution to store large amounts of money is not the best solution because the exchange platform can be hacked or collapsed then the possibility of you lose everything. I think you should keep bitcoin in your online wallet, you can download and install it on your PC or phone, or you can keep them in your paper wallet or hardware wallet.

I think it is more better to keep your cryptos on a wallet if you want to be safe from hackers because there are many hackers now who attacks the trading flatforms and it is really bad. But if you want to quick sell your cryptos because of price fluctuation and sell it really fast when the price grow up, you can keep your crypto on trading platforms but like what i`ve said, it is not safe to keep at trading platforms.

It is safe to store cryptocurrency on cold wallets. But if you constantly trade in all or most of its volume, then there is no sense in transferring funds from the exchange.

Basically it is better to play around with your portfolios on an exchange as you have the opportunity to make some profits and be able to sell off quickly and buy a coin that's performing well during price dips.However,if the exchange is ever hacked or sanctioned you could lose your money

My advice is to diversify your crypto wealth and have some in hardware wellets like the Ledger Nano or Trezor, some in software wallets like Jaxx or Electrum, some in exchanges where you can trade it and some in alt coin desktop wallets.

I am deeply skeptical of the conventional wisdom that you should hold all your alt coins in the desktop wallet apps. I have yet to see a single alt coin with 2FA. All I have seen is single password that stands between hackers and your coins on a desktop wallet for many different coins including Rain, Linda, Safexcoin, 1337, LDoge, Hyperstake. 

most of my tokens were stored in exchanges, why i'm doing this because if the price coins that i hold is up, i can keep an eye and can sell it anytime without waiting the confirmation times

I prefer to you to bot store your cryptocurrencies in exchangers. The purpose of exchangers is to trade coins abd it is not wallet. It is not safe because the exchanger can close their website any time and also many exchangers are been hacked by the hackers. So it is safe to store your coins in trusted wallets.

It all depends on what is your goal . If you want to hold for a long term use a safe wallet and hold your own private keys .
If you are a trader then it's best to keep them on the exchange ,Because it will take you so much time and so much fees to constantly transfer your money from the wallet to the exchange and back. Me personally i keep them all on the exchange platform , that way i know if anything dips and i want to buy ,i will not miss the opportunity.

I think it's fine to keep your coins in trading platform or exchanges but only if you're a daily trader, for ease of access and less trading fee and with only a small amount,because keeping all your coins in exchanges is not good or too risky. There are many possibilities that your coins might be lost,either by hacking or circumstances that is beyond your control like exchanges closing.Wallet is still the best option to keep your coins specially offline wallet which is the safest and secured wallet.

The place for keeping crypto is depending on your works and what do you want to do with your cryptos, like you can't let them in your wallets all the time if you want to trade right ? Specially right now when the fee transaction is insane.

Is better to keep all the cryptocurrency on the trading because is much better to do that than to keep it in your wallet because your money will not gain in that aspect while if you going to keep it in trading you are probably gain income..

A good advice for you is that you only have to put money on the trading site when you want to trade in a certain crypto, do not keep your money too long there, there exists the risk of losing all the money, it's higher that you use a wallet.

I save Bitcoin in the Exchange market because I trade every day.

but for the sake of convenience then save your Bitcoin in the wallet offline.

and once again all those decisions are all held by you.

For me between keep all cryptocurrency  in trading platforms or wallets,
I’m prefer to the trading platforms than to wallet because this time I think trading platforms is the best choice to be choose because they are the one of the best in this business.

I think keeping all crypto in trading platforms are not safe, as they can get hacked. It would be better if you keep them in wallet. Blockchain.info is a very good wallet, you can keep bitcoin here, for altcoins you can pick myetherwallet or metamask.

Yes and through this years there are many hacking of exchanges that happened because the money is all on this sites. You can have it in a different exchanges wallets and for much convenience so you would not be worried is to keep those coins in a compatible cold storage or hardwares. Ether wallet is not so much safe nowadays there are cases that it was been hacked.

It depends. If you're a day trading person or a holder.
If you'r a day trader. Definitely put some on exchanges. But remember. Never put them all at one place. The risk is there. Be smart to split them to 2 or 3 pieces. Be aware of scam websites with similar domains. Double check everything.
If you're a holder. Just buy a cold wallet to prevent someone trying to hack your pc or laptop. Send your coins there and wait for the top. Or, keep your paraphrase somewhere really safe. Buy a good antivirus and malware protection app. Never use a public network. And that's it. Your portfolio is safe.
Good luck!

Personally i prefer to keep all crypto in exchange so i can trade it to maximize the profit from high fluctuacion, and to minimize the risk i used about 6 different exchanges and not forget to turn all security features. My aim is to make more money from high fluctuacion so though more risk i prefer to keep all crypto on the exchanges, and also i withdraw some profit in to fiat.

No offense, but shapeshift is a scam, the same for all the other websites that are just like this.
And trading wallets are not as safe as they seem to be, just avoid them

For me in the two of them I’m prefer  to keep all cryptocurrency in trading platforms because it is more safest in terms of security that the company providing
because I know my investments is in the good hands.

You do not need to trust the exchanges and leave them to store a crypto currency for a long period of time, even if the exchange is very good and well-known. Transfer the crypto currency to a paper purse, it's not very difficult.

It is not really advisable to put or keep your crypto assets in cryptomarket or any trading platforms because they are very vulnerable to hacking. Only transfer them if you want to have transaction on these platforms than keeping them or you will regret it.

I agree with you, I think that it is more safe when when we keep all crypto in wallets.

Keep it on your wallet. Do not ever store your funds in exchange because it is more accessible in hackers. Cold wallet is more secured and safe. So, I prefer to put it in MEW or any cold storage than in exchange. If we will keep our tokens in wallet, we will have an assurance that when we open our wallet, our tokens are always there.

Since cryptocurrency market is not stable then keep in exchange site is the best for this time so we can immediatelly sell when the price rise. Although it is not so secure because the trading site could be attacked by hackers or turn in to scam.

If you are a short tern trader, you can keep your funds in an exchange as you trade it constantly but if you are investing for a period of say 2 months and more, you need  to keep your coins in the wallet you control its private keys.

I think keep all cryptourrency in trading platforms will do than in wallets because in terms of security I believe trading platforms have the best, so less worries about negative thought in our mind.

I prefer holding my coins in wallets because placing it into trading platforms are very dangerous since there are exchangers today that are actually stealing their investors coins when the market prices starts to pump up.

I believe that 70% Deposit should lie on cold wallets. You don't have to trade with that money. 30% can be allocated to trade for more income and to meet the trading needs in risk

That would be the best thing to execute by the trader since if people will trust up their balances on hot exchanges then possibly they will be compromised on a huge problem brought by what they called safe exchanges. We should see those past exchange hackings events and try to look this as a reminder that we shouldn't put all our money on the placed where we don't have control.

We are know that own wallet is better safe than trading platforms. If we put our assets in the market, so if the market got hacked, our assets was gone too. I think it's not safe for us.

I think it's never gonna be a right move to
Keep all your crypto assets in any exchange.
I would always prefer to keep my assets in my possession
Where I've the private key.
If you are a active trader then you can
Keep a certain amount in any exchange but never the full amount.

May i know how long you are in this market and are you aware of the infinite number of hacks that happened in the past, this is the problem as people are least bothered about how they secure their money even if you have the best options without any hurdle and still people like to take chances and hold onto third person wallets. I rarely keep my coins in any trading platforms until i am trading, if not i wont even move to these wallets.

Actually most of the trader who trading altcoin are moved their coins to the wallet because exchanges site is prone of hackers because most of the hacker wants big money and exchanges site have that because of the traders money. But it's up to you what do you prefer.

I usually keep all my coin on the trading floor. I do not keep them in wallet. I think keeping the crypto on the trading floor will be more secure in the wallet

Well logic would dictate that if you're not actively trading your coins and prefer to just keep it for the long term, then put them in your personal wallet. Coins in a exchange pretty much belongs to the exchange itself. And there have been many instances in the past were can learn from.

I keep mostly all of my crypto on trading platforms, of course you can separate and keep something on myetherwallet or on the wallet which is on your computer. Keeping your coins on trading platforms is good so you can sell them faster  :)

I also hold most of my crypto on the trading platform because exactly as you said, we will be more convenient during trading when in trading, we only need to delay a few minutes, we will have lost or missed huge profits. Many people think the trading platform will be more easily attacked by hackers, it is also reasonable but they forgot that the exchange had a very high security system, especially in large exchanges, security is more optimal than ever, hackers want to steal is very difficult while our wallet is probably the ideal destination for hackers when our security is very low

if you want to trade long term I recommend to save it in the wallet. because the risk of storing on the platform / exchange is very large. but if you trade every day the tip tip you must sleep and when you want to sleep you save your coin to your wallet. safe trading boy. a little mistake will result in a loss

As for me, it is still safer to keep or store all our cryptocurrency tokens in a hard wallet to avoid uncertain losses. We all know how risky and hackable some trading platforms these days are so we have to secure and be careful about our earnings. It is better to secure it in a wallet where no one else could access but you.

Well, it depends on what the trading exchange.If some kind of proven and well-known and it is possible on the exchange why not?But there is always the risk of hacking, the risk is everywhere even on the electron wallet

We should always think the safety for our coin so we should think always for some possible thing that if you could take this in our time as of now yes there is a lot of hackers and people are crave to get money ina easy thing that they dont have to work on on the other hand some of us hardworking to take money in a safe way.

In my own opinion, it varies. You can decide to keep your coins on the exchanges only if you are a day trader but if you want to invest for a while or for the long term, secure them in a wallet as they are more better and also safe there

The problem with keeping your cryto assets in trading platforms is there's a risk of losing you assets due to hacking. However, you will lose the chance to earn if you see an opportunity. I've been in this situation before when I found out that a coin will be listed on another trading platform, so there's a chance that the price of that coin will go up, but I can't buy because I don't have extra funds available.

If you've a hard wallet such as ledger and trezor to keep your coins being safe from those hackers, then Its better to keep It holding on your wallet, but If It is not, then you must transfer coins In some exchanges that you're comfortable to used and make a trade of It.

I don’t think need to do this. You can make your crypto in Dollar and stock it for as much time as you can. In trading platform and wallets there is some risk. Though lots of well-reputed sites have exchanges or very good experience. If you like them then hold your coins there and more security you can use blockchain wallet.

In my case, I'm store bitcoin on Binance and all the other tokens on my ERC-20/XLM/NEO wallets

You can not keep all your money in your wallet and stand still a place without making profits, you also have to get out to buy / sell. When you are profitable, you sell it, make a profit, and put it in your wallet for safety.

I won't advice you keep your coins in exchange Trading platforms. You risk too much if you do so. There are many hacking issues these days, so be smart enough to save your coins in a wallet. That proves to be more safer than exchange Trading platforms. This method is best applicable if you are planning on a long term Holding Strategy. If not, it is also not a bad idea to secure your coins in your wallets and then transfer them to exchange platforms, when you want to trade, just bear it at the back of your mind that, transaction fee comes with it.

If you plan to constantly trade your coins, then it is better to store them on the wallet of the exchange. Of course, for this you need to use several exchanges (on different exchanges there are different prices for coins, so sometimes it is more profitable to buy and sell on different exchanges + exchanges sometimes go for maintenance and you will not have access to your coins).
If you don't plan to trade constantly, then it's best to store your coins on your wallet.

I think it's better we can store it in our wallet because sometimes we can hold a coin because we can't see it if we scan. If our ownership of cryptocurrancy is in our wallet. We can ensure that it's safe. If we want to have our coins on our trading page to do business, we have to let our coins increase.

Now I suggest that you don't trade daily. If you don't know much about trading, the best option for you will be investing in mid-term or long-term trading. Just buy promising coins at a good price, bring them to your wallet and wait until their rate grows to a comfortable mark for you.
If you have a desire to trade, it is certainly more convenient to keep the your coins on the exchange. So you'll have a quick access to the necessary operations with them.

The coin that you will use in trading is okay that you put in the wallet exchanges, but if the coin is not for trading then it is better in your wallet not in your wallet exchanges because if you want to exchange your coin into fiat money then you will pay a big fee to transfer the coin that you will exchange in fiat money.

If you are actively trading then keep the coins in the exchange because it would just be expensive for you to deposit and withdraw from time to time although this would secure your coins but then you just have to choose what you are most comfortable at. You just have to remember that when your coins are in the exchange, consider it not yours because it might be stolen anytime. It is still safer to keep your coins in your own wallet that you hold the private key since you are the only one who can access it.

I think crypto assets should be in wallet, hardware wallet is a good way to store it. But you can divide your  assets for long term and short term. Long term hold tokens or coins in hardware wallet and short term must be keep in trading exchanges to fast trades whenever a need arises. For me I park some on exchanges, tokens use for day trade, I just withdraw the profit.

It is safer to store crypto in your wallet, because the risk is very small to be hacked, if you want to save in the market try to short-term trading, because it is big if you save crypto too long in the trading site

I prefer to store the cryptocurrency that I have in the place of exchange because I can use it for trading and I can benefit from using the up and down movement of the coin prices in the exchange place.

I think it is better to store the crypto in personal security wallets because of its stronger trading platform. in wallet personal private key, file, even the hardware. Whereas, in the trading platform has only 2fa for security would certainly be easier on hacking. recommended wallet: coinomi :)

I think the best way to keep in good trading platform because you have the option to exchange with other coins that are the best option in the different scenario of the market because this option makes your coins the opportunity to increase that is why I think instead of wallets the best option exchanges.

Never keep all of your crypto currency on the exchange. It is better to keep your coins in a cold purse to protect yourself as much as possible. On the exchange, you can store only a small part of your crypto currency reserves.

If we talk about security, then I would not advise you to keep all your coins on the exchange, because you can leave a certain amount there to trade, and the rest is transferred to a protected wallet

There have been many posts relating to this question, and in agreement with most of the people on here, its best to keep it off the platforms. Its way safer in your own private wallet then anywhere else, that I can think of, excluding nanoS.

It is much more better to keep holding for a while, that is the only way in that you are going to make a huge amount of money if the market recovers or if there is another reversal

As a day trader, it might be wise to keep your coins on the exchange. Timing is all important, when trying to maximize profits.
As a hodler, you would want your assets safe in your wallet.
Keeping tokens permanently on trading platforms has its disadvantages, as there are risks of lossing your assets, should there be an issue in the exchange  always be aware and informed.

maybe other people think if tehy save in market,they can trade it whenever they want. can't force them only suggestion, but as long they already put strong security on their account. just let exchanger to manage the rest of it

I trust the wallet to protect all crypto, it would be better if this offline wallet is useful for storing all of our assets and avoid hacking fraud or loss. so when saving on the platform I suggest when I will sell it.

Don't keep your funds in any platform because it may cause of losing your money much better to hard wallet the no one can know your funds and can't easy to hack.

If you do not regularly trade, keeping coins on highly secure wallets is a must. High quality security wallets such as Metamash and hardware wallets should be used to hold investors' money.

That's what I wrote. Why just rewrite my thoughts in your own words?

I prefer to keep all my crypto currencies in my wallet, because I feel worried if I keep all my crypto on the platform will be hacked, I save on the platform if I will trade in the short term

My opinion is that it is good if you will keep such amount of money in trading platform which you  are going to use for trading, I think that you should keep the rest of your money in a safe and secure exchange.

I think that it is better to keep in trading platforms if you are sure that they are safe and reliable. As for me, it is better to use hard wallets if you want to be 100% sure that everything will be fine with your money

I think that you need to prefer wallets as they seem to be more reliable. To my mind, platforms in the internet aren't trustworthy at all, You need to be careful every time using such services

This is to be understood that even who have got money that is not under your daily use. Either it is saved in your house or saved in banks, utilize them for more earning. Don’t let them spoil their charm and value without making use of them. bitcoin trading or investing is quite interesting and useful source that must be adopted for huge incoming of handsome profit ratios.

I have few of my clients on exchange wallet because I love to have it in the first reach so I can trade it fast if I need, but most of my coins are on my hardware wallet that are secured more than anything else.

I use hard storage for most of mine, not much of a trader these days, more so an accumulator. Burned too many times trading, and can sleep at night knowing my money is stored off these exchanges

It all depends on the plans I have for that specific currency.
If I plan to hold it for the long-term, I lock it up in my wallet
If I plan to sell at the right price, I keep it in the exchange and monitor the orders and market trend. It makes it easier to snap up good deals quickly.
Always ensure your safety, use matamask on decentralized exchanges, and 2FA on centralized

Your strategy is fine, but since I am a long term holder I do not have any use for the strategy of holding my coins in an exchange and wait to sell them at the highest price, I do not hold any coin that I do not think it is going to give me incredible profits in the long term, maybe I am too lazy but I do not like the idea of checking the charts all day just to see if it is the right moment to sell.

I think it is more better to keep your cryptos on a wallet if you want to be safe from hackers because there are many hackers now who attacks the trading flatforms and it is really bad. But if you want to quick sell your cryptos because of price fluctuation and sell it really fast when the price grow up, you can keep your crypto on trading platforms

What are the coins you want to trade you can move to exchange rest you can hold them on the exchanges. As long as if you hold them in the wallet and if you don't share your private keys you will be in safe hands.

the normal exchane coins stay at Trade platforms. the Big qty.leave to wallet. and safely for your cryptocoin

I think you should transfer all your coins that are holding onto your wallet. Because wallet will have better security than the trading platform. Binance is a great trading platform and is considered a high transaction platform. but it has been hacked daily by hackers. You should not put your coins on trading floors.

If you want to trade altcoins on a daily basis then it would be much better to keep your coins in the exchanges...it will save your time and save paying transaction fees too many times...but for users like me who dont trade much and hold their coins it is safer to hold them in wallets.

I know saving it in hardware wallet will be much safer, for a long-term investment, of course I keep my coin in a hard wallet,
but I do trade also, of course I will save a few percent of my funds in exchange, to make it simpler when I use it to trade

Actively trading is day trading then should keep our coins in the exchange, because it is easy to see the price and withdraw the coins when we like to do it, without it, it will be hard for us. 

This all depends on what you are doing. If you are a day trader and you are trading, you need to keep your coins on the exchange and if you want to hold your coins for long, you need a wallet where you can store the coins

You're right with what you said but he/she should only keep the amount of coins he/she can afford to loose cause the holder of wallet private keys is automatically the coin owner.

It's a good idea to use some of your money to grow so it doesn't rot in storage. but you also need to manage finance
so you know the right allocation to save and grow. therefore I keep my coin in the wallet for the long term and in exchange to grow

If we are not doing actively trading then better to store our coins in wallet, especially in hard wallet, nothing is best than hard wallet. But we should do it only when we want to store our coins for a long time.

When you hold your coins on exchanges they infact belong to the exchange, not to you.

It depends on how you like to trade. For those who trade every day, it is convenient to trade coins to the trading platform, and for long-term traders, it is safest to save coins to “cold wallets”!

On point, never trust an exchange because the chances of getting hack their site. Better to save in a hardware wallet or as long you have yor own private keys. Always save your cyrpto in a wallet not in exchange a huge risks occured.

Just be careful and do not become complacent, if at some point you want a rest and you are not going to trade for some time then you need to get your money out of it, there have been many cases of people leaving their money in exchanges and they got hacked or the exchange got hacked and in some cases there was a governments raid and they lost all their money because of this.

I would say if the intention is only to HODL then keep it safe in the wallet otherwise if you want to trade often then keep it on the trading platform.

I think that you need to store your coins and tokens on stock exchanges in less time. Exchanges are most often subjected to attacks by hackers, besides, there is not always trust in the administration of the exchange. There are a lot of cases of unauthorized transactions on behalf of the owners of crypto currency even without any signs of hacking. In addition, various directions and requirements of various inspections may appear on the part of the exchange administration, which are sometimes difficult to fulfill. Therefore, it is best to immediately send funds back to the wallet after performing the necessary operation.

I think that from the point of view of the security of its crypto currency, it is, if possible, necessary to store it in its purses. Exchanges and exchangers are most often subjected to attacks by hackers, a lot of different scandals arise because of the actions of the exchange administration and exchangers.

Yes, I always keep the password in my purse, but I always wait for the opportunity from the market, now the market is constantly falling, if we are impatient will be one of the causes leading to failure from it.

You will also need to have a wallet that you could access quickly when you need to have an emergency money. It is not advisable to always keep you funds on the trading site or exchanger becasue you could sell or buy accidentally without knowing that you did.

If you are a daily trader, then you don't really need a "hot wallet" because most of your coins may need to be stored on the trading platform. If you trade very large and often store your wallet, then the "cold wallet" is Your choice, Ethereum's wallet is very good!

There are a lot of big exchanges like Bittrex, polonium, and many other that are good.

It just depends on your situation and also on the kind of mind set that you are having that time.

That doesn`t depend from mindset, like you first said it depends on situation and your plans with your coin. If you plan to hold it for while its better to have wallet, if you plan to trade with coin anytime soon its better to have it on platform and wait that moment, transferring your assets from one place to another more than once can be expensive cause of the transaction fees.
Make a plan and execute it, its very simple, and always try to protect your asset.

I would highly recommend keeping your funds in your own wallet that you hold the private keys to.  Only keep money on the exchange while your actively trading.  I have run into issues with some of the exchanges so you need to know its high risk leaving any coins with them. 

Situations differs. If you are a trader and you day trade on a daily basis, its best to keep your coins on the exchange that you are using and if you are a long term investor, tku need to keep your coins safely in your wallet

So you are suggesting him to keep all his crypto in trading platform/exchange although his main purpose is to hold the coins? It is not safe to do so obviously, storing crypto in a wallet where you have a full control of it is more recommended. No matter how good the exchange is, the risk is still higher compared to if you keep it on your own wallet.
One more question, what is polonium? Is this a name of exchange? Never heard this name before as a good exchange. Do you mean poloniex?

It is right, without using the crypto, we can't taste it and can't earn from it, then better to use it. But now we have come in this stage where every trader should understand that which amount of coins he need it on the time, but hold wise we should use wallet. 

No doubt, it is risky, but these circumstances always come in every type of business, so trading is also risky, sometime profit wise and some time whenever ban trading. 

Keeping your crypto in both trading platforms or wallets are risky. Hackers will still find ways and means how to steal our money could be in a wallet or in a cryptocurrency exchange. I totally agree with you mate that it would be better to keep your crypto in a wallet if you plan to HOLD your coins or if oftentimes you are trading, then keeping it the trading platform is also good for faster transactions if a sudden increase in value is being observed. I usually hear from the news that cryptocurrency exchanges are usually getting hacked than wallets.

Who knows the exchange will not run away with your money, who knows it wouldn't be hacked and all the database will be gone, who knows it would not be bankrupt.We didn't trusted our money with the banks, so why should we trust in storing our hard earned money with exchanges, who are not even legally bound with us if they cheat us. We can't do anything against them except regretting.only use exchange  for trading.

So, to make it short, there is no place to keep your cryptos that doesnt hold any risks.
Now, to avoid ourselves from confusion on we properly store our assets in an exchange or in a wallet, always put this in mind. When you put your cryptos in an exchange, the main purpose is to trade, its not a good idea to store your coins passively or hodl it for a long time. The tendency of lossing it is very high. If you stop trading even for a mean time, never ever forget to transfer all your coins inside your wallet. Exchanges are very vulnerable to any kind of harm that can cause to a fund loss.

I also think that he is talking about poloniex and that is really a bad exchange when many people are constantly complaining about it. Talk about keeping altcoin, with what you say, crypto in a wallet can be safer but in my opinion, if you are a hacker, your prey put crypto in your wallet or on the trading platform, it is the same when you have control of the computer of the prey, things are pointless when hackers can attack, keeping altcoin where you feel most convenient is what I suggest.

Depends how you approach the whole topic. Don't HODL your coins on exchanges, especially the centralised ones. Wallets are created to hold your coins on them safely. If you're a day trader you can keep some of your coins on exchanges but always be careful while making any moves.

It is definetely safer to have your funds on your wallet, but the problem is when you own several different coins. Then you have to install different wallet for each coin. And full node wallet can have several GB. Thats why I prefer to have some funds on exchanges. I know it is not very safe but it is easier for me to store coins that way.

Hardwallet is the best choice if you want to collect crypto nominal above average, even though the transaction fee amount will also be bigger but very safe for now, there is no exchanger market that can be trusted fully because they can be frozen or have the potential to get problems from the government at all times, the best at Crypto is to maintain personal assets in full

To keep in exchanges or wallets depends on your market position. If you are an investor, it's best you withdraw to wallets were you control your private keys but if you are a trader, I'm sorry, you will have to keep your coins on the exchange to facilitate trading and avoid unnecessary charges due to constant withdrawal and deposition of funds. It however poses greater risk as exchanges are prone to hacks.

Even keeping in wallets is not safe, so don't tall about exchanges. I think I would hold coins in hardware wallets.

store more comfortable in crypto wallet because it is more secure, because it is usually more controlled the purse strings to more efficiently and monitored.

The safest wallet is offline wallet. Because most exchanges aren't decentralized and they can freeze your account when they want, even without telling you. Also exchanges never give you your private key. Also, for securing your wallet more, you can try hardware wallet.

It is not always a great idea to keep your coins on exchange especially if the amount is significant, exchanges are susceptible hacks and one could lose them when it occurs

If you want to put your money in wallet or platforms so I’m always suggest must put your money in two or three wallet. Never put your all token in trading platform because when trading platform will be scam no one can understand. So it is better to hold your token in blockchain or coinbase wallet. I’m always suggest to put your token in your personal wallet.

I think you should have saved crypto asset in wallet where you will have access of private Key. keep all crypto in trading platform will not be secure way to store. BTW every person has different set of mind but I would prefer wallet rather than any exchange.
There was many cases in last year where exchanges account got hacked and stolen crypto asset.

It is not safe at all to keep cryptos in trading platforms, as they can get hacked and you would loss all your money, so it would be more safer to keep them in wallets.

Whenever I see a post like this, I feel puzzled asking myself, “How come there are still some people around here who don't seem to understand the obvious difference between keeping coins in trading platforms/online wallets and cold wallets?”

That's a truism that's as old as the hills:
keep all the significant amounts offline (cold wallets, paper wallets), while keeping the amounts traded on exchange in trading platforms.

So many people wrote absolutely sensible things to this topic.
Hopefully, this will help the rest of us keep our crypto safe ;)

To store coins and tokens outside of wallets - in various exchanges, exchangers, platforms it is very risky. Now there are a lot of cases when such exchanges and exchangers are attacked by hackers, besides, there is no certainty that there will be no abuse by the administration of these institutions. If you are trading, you can leave your crypto currency there for a while, but after you do not intend to trade in the near future, your coins and tokens should be immediately moved to a purse. So it will be more reliable.

You must not keep your money on exchange otherwise you will have to worry about it all the time.

It's a choice that depends entirely on you. if you want to trade frequently with coins that you have, that is to say, if you are constantly trading, it makes more sense to keep your money on the trading platform, but only on the trading platforms, you are trusting. on the other hand, if you are not going to trade regularly, of course, I suggest you keep it in your own wallet. Not in online wallets, in a secure hardware wallet that you can access just like Electrum.

Wallet's main purpose is to allow you to store your coins and use them, by receiving and emitting transactions.

Exchange's purpose is to allow you to trade crypto for fiat currency (or possibly other values), and vice versa. Most of them technically also are wallets.

The main disadvantage with exchange wallets is you never know what will happen to your coins if there is a hack or other. So if you have plans to trade the coin keep in exchange wallets or if you want to hold the coins in long term keep in wallets.

But if you are holding coins in the wallets you need to save all private keys, seeds etc. otherwise you loose all your coins. If you lost coins in an exchange then the exchange may be responsible for that.

As a trader my mind is to put most of your funds in the exchangers, because we know that the movement from red to green or green to red cannot be guessed and moves quickly. What I think is to buy coins with 10% of your funds then hold it in the wallet, the rest is put in the exchange I suggest at least you have 2-3 exchanger sites because fluctuations in each exchange are different even though the difference is not much but can be used as an advantage for us, and I also think the same as what you do now as the best choice.

It seems to be safer now that you can store all cryptocurrency assets in your wallet that are specific to the cryptocurrency you have, don't let you keep assets in the exchange place for so long because it can be lost because security in the exchange is very vulnerable to attack by thieves and hacker.

Looking at what goals you pursue, if you want to make a profit at short distances, then of course you can store on the exchanges, but if for a long period, then be sure to keep on your wallets!

I would never keep my crypto-currencies on any trading platforms for long period of time, as there was just too much news about crypto-currencies exchanges getting hacked by hackers resulting in huge numbers of traders losing their crypto-currencies due to the hack, I think the most secure place to store your crypto-currencies would be a hardware wallet which you are in total control of the private key.

It depends on you but if u want to hold your tokens for long term then its better to keep them in your hard wallet for safety purposes..but for a short trade that u are doing just keep it up continue it if u gain profit in it..

Two options are here, when you want to trade fast according to signals that are would be to have money on exchange wallet, but more secure is to have on offline wallet.

Wallets, of course! And I mean cold / hardware wallets, they're the best.

You can hold it your wallet for more safe but if you want to hold it in the exchanges site. Holding a coin go exhanges site have advatanges because once the coin up you cannot wait to confirm the transaction before you sell it and in wallet if the coin increase you will wait the confirmation before use it.

I suggest better to have coin in your wallet to exchanges site wallet incase you need it and avoiding losing it while in exchanges site.

Other people have different strategy how they hold their coin on they safety.

I keep all of my coins in my wallet, and I suggest that you also save into your wallet, because it is very risky to save it in the stock exchange for a long time, the market is only for quick trading

Wallet is meant to store our crypto currencies for long term but the trading platform is just to only deposit and withdraw at the time of trading so now we have answer where we have to store all our crpyots!

if you keep all your cryptocurrency better you can save it in the wallet because if you save it on the trading platform or where the exchange will be very terrible and can make you lose the assets you have.

All depends on how often you are trading or needing to trade because you don't want to get stuck in situations where your capital is all offline in hardware wallets and then wait to send funds to your exchange account(s) and miss opportunities.

Best thing to do is keep a certain amount of capital needed in the exchange to avoid delays if you need to execute something quickly. Everything else should remain offline always unless your only dealing with small amount of course.

If you have a bigger portfolio like more than 1-2 BTC then I would suggest you to buy Trezor or Ledger. Its the safest at this moment and recommended for long term.

I think it's best when your altcoin or bitcoin stores it on your wallet because if you use an exchanger and there you hide your coin there is a possibility to lose it because it does not trade in other coins.

I think you should not keep all the coins in this exchanger to avoid losing all your coins if the exchanger is a scam.
Use hard wallet

I'm not good at trading so I kept all the coins in wallet, because I like long-term investment. I do not feel secure putting them in trading floors because they are easy to hack

Well, it’s only my opinion, but I think that it’s better to keep all crypto on a hardware wallet. Who can argue that it’s risky to keep all your coins on exchange, everybody knows that it might be hacked. But sure, there are several secure exchanges, where you can keep some of your coins.
So, if it’s way more convenient for you to keep some crypto on exchange, then you need to take several aspects into consideration.
So, there are several things, that you need to check before making a decision whether to keep your funds on the exchange or not: read reviews, check if it provides you with a possibility to select two-factor authentication (2FA), and if it has SSL and DSS certificates, etc. I’ve chosen cex.io (https://cex.io/), but you shouldn’t trust my or anyone else’s opinion – do your own research.

it depends to you bro, if you want do some trade, for example once time a week, so you can puy which coin you want to trade in exchange.
but if you just want to hold long term better save it on your wallet.

it's better that you store the cryptocurrency assets that you have stored in a special wallet and have very high security because if you store assets on a trading platform it will have a very high risk of losing assets you have.

You can decide on the one that would favour you the most. If you are a constant trader, you need to keep your coins on an exchange and if you are a long term trader, you need to keep your coins in a wallet.

To keep cryptos in trading platforms implies several risks like for example:
- The platform gets hacked and funds oftenly are not insured.
- The platform can cheat you.
- The platform becomes bankrupt by mismanagement or unlucky circumstances.
- The TOS of some trading platforms don't allow to keep funds there without trading.
Also keeping funds on wallets is not without risk especially for newbies.
Mostly loosing private keys/seeds can cause loss of funds.
The best is to use more than one wallet and only keep money at trading platforms, which are active used for trading. Also use more than one trading platform.

Crypto has high volatilitas and the price can be going up 10 times just in amonth and going down again to bottom price, so i personal prefer to keep all crypto on the exchanges , and to minimize risk i devide all crypto in to 5 different exchanges. This way to make more money and avoid big risk from high fluctuacion.

We have lots of cryptocurrency trading platform these days and it seem everything is going on fine as there are less issue of cryptocurrency exchange going offline and carting away trader's fund. The safe practice with any exchange is to never leave your fund on any!

Time have proven that exchanges are not the best place to store cryptos. There have been series of hacks even in reputable exchanges such as Binance. So anyone considering leaving all his fortune in trading platforms is doing so at his own peril.

I prefer to keep all of my cryptos on a trading platform because if the market isn’t in a good condition, I can sell them immediately without waiting. If you want to save coin in the wallet, save it in coinomi.

Leaving all crypto on a trading platform sounds pretty scary. I heard this is too risky, so it might depend on your attitude, the amount and type of assets, a country, a platform, etc. and probably should be considered on a case-by-case basis. But as a rule of thumb, when it comes to all the crypto you have, the safest way to keep it is in a cold storage they say...
I prefer Ledger Nano S.

Keeping all your crypto in a trading platform without trading is crazy. Only a cold wallet or two, or more depending on the amount of crypto you hodl. Because they say the wallets packed with crypto are easily traceable and, certainly, hackable just because they are obviously worth it.

It's not wise to hold your crypto in trading platform or wallet. when you just need to do trade you can move your fund trading site and after the trade just withdraw your coin at your personal wallet. No key no coin it is very simple. anytime trading site or exchange site can be hacked and if its hacked you may be lost all of your asset.so dont store your crypto at trading platform wallet.

As long as we have a whole lot of coin in a wallet, we should be safe about security and we should keep it safe and set up two layers of security to avoid being hacked by hackers.

That depends. If you are only interested in hodling, there's no sense in keeping your assets online, in which case a hard wallet would be my choice. Otherwise, hard wallets are not the best way of working with your digital assets, IMHO.

I for one prefer keeping my coins in a wallet, like Jaxx, for example, but on several accounts.

just keep all in your wallet and you don't have to worry about being hacked and you lose everything. You can decide on the one that would favour you the most.

Yes, I prefer to store all cryptocurrency in the trading platform because this is a company that provides because I know my investment is in good hands. I can ensure that it is safe and I can easily detect which coins are worth.

Of course it's very risky when you put all your assets in one place, especially on an exchange site that is a third party, there are many risks that come like scams, hacking, etc.
Of course you have financial management in this crypto investment right? use it to divide your assets into several places, not just in exchange site, separate them in online wallets or hardware wallets

If you are a day trader you do not really have a choice, you need to have your money into the exchanging platform so you can take advantage of the rapid movements in the price of cryptocurrencies, but if your trades are slow where you like to take long positions that last for weeks or even months then it is a good idea to keep your money in your wallet since losing a few minutes or hours before the exchange receives your payment is not going to be critical.

If you are a short term trader then you must need to store your cryptocurrencies into an exchange site. But if you are a long-term trader then you can store your coins into your own wallet to be safe from hackers.

Crypto coins that I get from investments, airdrops or bounty programs, I always keep in my wallet, especially MyetherWallet... but for Bitcoin, Ethereum or cryptocurrencies that are in the top 20, I prefer to save in wallet trading platforms, so I can save fees...

First of all you hold any asset if you think that it will growth in the future. Right now there is downtrend on the market. And it is not a good idea to hold anything. I prefer just trade with certain amount of money, earn and fix in USD through marginal trading. That's why I don't hold any cryptocurrency anywhere, but I hold my main fiat money on exchanges, but if I buy any asset for long-term, I will hold it on wallet.

Actually it's more convenient to store in trading wallet because we can see the total amount of coins, and also the change of coins price movements. We can sell the coins when the price is high

It will really depend on the amount of altcoins you have. Some trading platforms (based on the trading platforms I'm in) do not allow to transfer tokens below their minimum requirement (e.g 20 tokens). So you can't really keep all your tokens in the trading platform. It' safer if you store your coins in the wallet but it's more convenient if you have your coins in the trading platform. That's the difference, in my own personal opinion.

Mostly exchanges are secure so if you want to keep your assets on exchanges then you can & no need to worry.
But my suggestion is if you want to use your coins in trading then transfer to any exchange otherwise keep store in your wallets.

I prefer to keep assets in the wallet because at this time there are quite a lot of exchanges that experience hackers and users who will experience losses because their set in exchange sometimes does not get responsibility. so don't keep too many assets in exchange

If you want to store your funds of crypto coins its better to keep it in you wallet to avoid lose of funds. Because some traders spreading news that their funds has lost because they putting it in some exchanges.

Surely, it's not always good to keep your money in the exchange wallet. Because most of the exchanges are centralized, so they can block your money when they want, even without your consent.

Depends, if I want to HOLD the coins for a long time I prefer to save in the wallet, if the coins for trading will not save in my wallet.