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Well your wallet is where you keep your coin safe and it always important to protect it
 One of the best way is to protect your private key never give it out to any one even if it's your mentor that is very important
 This is for new guys like me

Just keep your coins in your wallet, add it to your browser's bookmarks, and go to the purse only if necessary, and there will not be problems.

Also, protect your passwords too. As for private keys, you may save these keys into two usb and store them on two different secured locations.  Remember to make the file encrypted with strong password.  If anyone found the usd, the encryption will save your data from being open and stolen.

Absolutely, for the security of your wallet and the coins you need to keep your private key and password safe, never use the same password on other online websites and also stay safe from phishing sites.

This is easiest
All you have to do is never compromise yourself
Never give out your keys
Avoid signing of message via dubious links

The security of your private key is the only defense of your earnings. It is equally accurate that you do not share it with anyone, or your earning can also be zero. Use it only with your wellet only at the time of the transaction.

To ensure your private keys are safe I suggest on you is to keep your private on a safe place, do some duplicate on it, avoid phishing sites so that your account would not be scammed. Only you should know your secrets on the keys of different wallet

"to protect your private key never give it out to any one"
What? Really? And if in fact, you just need to go to your wallet as often as possible, using a private key and you need to be careful and attentive when clicking on the links

of course but some of the issue about private key is hacking, so it's very important that you use anti virus and anti malware and avoid clicking links that you are not familiar with, install metacert so you will a green go if the online wallet you are visiting are safe and secured.

Guys your private key is important and you must keep it with extra care it must be in safe place or even don't use it to logging in with any decentralized exchange instead just used Metamask if it need to. Mostly the leaks comes with this simple logging in process or for sure don't put all your Digital Asset in a single wallet for better use back up. in case of unfortunate incident happen it wont lose all.

Using the method you said is really bad cause it will still expose your to danger and there hacking or installation of logger keys on your system. The best thing you can do is key your private safe either by printing it out, save it in safety deposit box or email and always use chrome incognito mode whenever you want signing your wallet.

To prevent your wallet from being hacked, you should store your keys and passwords in a secure location and preferably offline. It would also be very desirable if you do not come across phishing sites. And as another option is to keep your savings on multiple wallets equally.
Or, you can purchase a hardware wallet.

Mine is more like a wallet that I use that do not needs any private key because it is bitcoin wallet. Still my wallet still contains password which very important and if you used it bye bye for that wallet.

Now speakng of private key, a wallet use that uses private key and prints you/gives you a peace of paper which contains a barcode like and the private key., which if you lose it say bye bye.

By protecting you private key I do not use my cellphone as a note/ a copy paste thing, I write it in a piece of paper which is I need it I just manually type it. And thatvis safety for me.

I also frequently use the hardware wallet to store my cryptocurrency because I do not put much trust in the Exchange because at present there is a lot of lost information on Exchange without cause. Know how to protect yourself before risk can occur.

besides putting it in a safe place, the important thing is to make backup files especially if it's done routinely, because we also often update the contents of our addresses. hardware wallets usage is also recommended especially if storing in large amount of bitcoin.

that is certain, we must be careful in conducting transactions in the market. however there is a small gap, hackers will definitely be able to retrieve our security key to retrieve our ETH.

It is good that you have a separate main account that is its main purpose is to store all of your earned assets, and best is not to make a possible air of its wallet address online, keep it low, and also hide in a cold storage all the information regarding on your main wallet.

Though it is discussed more than a hundred times, but still thank you for your kind words. The private key is the everything! Private key lost or compromise will bring only sorrow. The wallet security is increasing and wallet hacker is being smart too. That's why it will suggest that you must use hardware wallet! hardware wallets are safer than others wallet.

I had a bunch of Waves tokens stolen. I might have logged into a fake website. I'm not really sure how they got my private key though.

Hi there, i am also a newbie in this forum but i engaged in crypto over the years, private key should be placed in a very safe place that nobody knows except you., my strategy is that i put all the very important details in an email that i never used in any transactions online., in this way i feel safe all the details, but of course this is not applicable to anyone, or you can save all the important files into a USB and you can keep it.

Nowadays, there are lots of users that has been hacked in their MEW wallet because of the phishing site, and then they input their private key, you should bookmark the websites into your browser so that, it would be easy for you to access the access everytime you need to use it, lets all be cautious in everything we do and click, because its a matter of carelessness.

If you are a long term holder of a few coins, which has a core wallets, better store it in your individual PC's rather than using the web wallets.,its because its only you, that can access you wallet in your PC, not unless, there are lots of users in your PC.

Have a great day!!

Have a great day to you sir! I was a newbie too maybe two years ago and sadly I was one of the many who had been victimized by phishing. The phisher got me via an email supposedly from the Slack site and I was then naive to think that it was all real so I log-in my MEW using the link that phisher provided...it was only weeks later when I opened back my MEW that I realized that all of the tokens/coins I bought and got from bounty hunting were all gone to the hands of the phishing attackers. I was then shocked but just like the many here there was nothing I could do but cry a little...then of course I learned the many big lessons that a newbie should realized: that here in cryptocurrency nothing can be safer and you could never be more careful as scammers and phishers are way ahead more advanced than us and the safety nets we are providing.

it's true, bro, the private key is only for ourselves, never give it to anyone, because that is your heart.
we do not easily trust the people around us, because not necessarily they really can keep our secrets

It truely our responsibility to take good care of our private key , because once it will be known by others or hackers from this phising sites then your wallet will be no more , the myetherwallet always reminds us the proper and what to so do to make your wallet private key be safety ,so it is your own personnal move to maje your private key the safest way to store and keep it.

Most of the time that is not the case though, criminals in the internet over targeting people and trying to steal their important data and private key is also one of them.
You can see that most of people who loses their coin is not handing away their privkey but got phished, people just need to be really aware about the importance of their private key

If you are just using an android phone or a mobile phone, keeping your private key on your phone doesn't guarantee it's safety. It is wise to copy it literally, i mean jot it down on a piece of paper and secure it's safety from a hidden place where only you could know where it is.

yeah, of course you are right about that.
it's hard to trust everyone even though it's our own mentor, we just keep storing the private key as our own secret.

only we are allowed to know it, and the most important thing is that we also cannot go into a site that is not safe there is a possibility that they can copy our private key. i only give advice.

advice that I can give with the experience I have done, never trust any link, especially if it leads to the opening of the wallet. and always make sure to bookmark the website address that you think is very important and privacy, because it prevents you from theft link

It is very common to keep your privatekey safe, because if you lost it somewhere else or anyone get know about it, all your coins will turn into nothing. No one wants to lost any single piece of his precious coin, so stay safe and keep going in crypto world.

It is your responsibility to protect your private key because that is your money ahead of the distribution and your investment coins. It can only be shared to your private key to your spouse for the security purposes and the development of your coins for many possibilities of updates when it regards to the trends.

Save your private key in flashdisk that not used when you not really urgent to use it. Save it into 2 - 3 flashdisk so you can back up whenever lost 1 of them. If you use private key, keep aware on site that you input.

It is certain, we must have our safety private key so that there will be no theft by hackers again.

When you are a newbie and it is new for you to create a new wallet, it is good for you to know the safety of your wallet, from checking how legit the wallet link is upto how its really works, aside from that it is very normal to us to keep it safe and do alot of back up of it, also by keeping the very important private key to secure all you future coins on it. Just remeber all things that related in crypto has need to be backed up for more security purposes.

Keeping safe private keys and passwords of wallets are vital, else you will be hacked. You can use paper wallets, cold wallets or else bookmark the genuine site of the wallet and access the wallet by using the bookmark. Best is to use hardware wallets if you can, but there is a limitation of type of coins one could store.

Also keep backups of your keys/wallets in a very safe place.  If you ever need to recover your keys this will make it so much easier and better.  You basically need a disaster recovery plan.

It is just like password so why you need to give it to someone else?  There are too much kind of wallet but I think if you have a huge amount of token, just divide it into different wallet if you scared of losing it.  Just save your private key because there are no back up when you forget that.

yes, that's right . Your private key is a your home key so if you lose your home key , the thief will enter your house and take your money away.
You should check your site carefully before put your private key in . Losing your private key losing your money .

We usually get hacked once we got visited unknown sites or person asking our private keys. Having a bookmark will be a huge help to prevent from losing our wallet keys.  So we should be cautious and always have a check before going anything. It is most important also not to engage transactions asking for our wallet keys cause it might be a scam.

I suggest if you have more money to buy trezor or nano-s wallets because this really helps us to use them and also guarantees the security that is in our assets.

Password should be large enough, have special characters to ensure the safety! But it is important that you remember the password. If not! all are useless!

Of course, you should NEVER give your private key away for any reasons.

To keep your private key safe, I wouldn't even recommend you take a photo of it, and store it in your phone. Neither would I recommend you to keep a copy in Evernote, Outlook or Gmail.

The best way is still a pen and paper. Write down your private key and keep it LOCKED up. If you want to take further precaution, you could purposely omit 1 or 2 letters out, and keep it remembered in your mind. (Which is what I'm doing). This is to ensure that even in the scenario someone manages to get the key and unlock the safe, your funds would still be safe.

I think everyone knows it very well, so it's not the knowledge you share.
I just want to suggest, if you have lots of tokens, you should use hardware because it's safer than any wallet.

There is a lot of things that possible to happen to your wallet if you are not carefully safeguard your pc, hackers are advance thinkers, try to avoid installing unfamiliar software or crack tools that contains malware or spyware that can steal your keys and don't forget to install antivirus and anti spyware to your pc at first.

Indeed and never be fall on the sugar coated words of the others because this is one of the main reason why others gave their key on the other person because they are deceive by the fake promises of the other like they gonna transfer some token in you account etc. that is why they give their key on it. So maybe the best way to rid this kind of act is to be smart so that you will have no regret in the end.

You have to keep your wallet address and your private key separately, just in case someone find it and try to access it for their own. You can ask your family member to keep it, like your mother or brother and sister. I can't guarantee it's the safest place, but at least it's safer than the computer.

I always use personal information as well as privacy of all the holding altcoin! Losing a private key will lose everything! Caution is always successful

I think the best solution is to have a dedicated PC or a notebook for keeping private keys and to use that PC just for making transactions. Also I can intimate you that it would be better no to use Microsoft Windows because this OS is quite vulnerable for viruses. If you are familiar with Linux it would be better to use namely Linux because Linux is more suitable and safer for keeping private data and making transactions.

Saving a private key to the place that you only knows like files and documents you can hide it. But what if you die the coins or the money on that account is useless so I think they need atleast 1 person who are your family member that you can really trust that you know what is cryptocurrency and know how to exchange the coin incase of emergency.

I don't think that's gonna help you in an emergency. Yes and at all as you can help the other man? Unless you only lose your password or key, but your friend has it.

The easiest way is to keep your computer clean and not load strange applications. It can take control of your computer and take over private keys if you store it there. Most hackers use this method to steal user information

In order for hackers not to crack your wallets you need to be careful when surfing the Internet. There are a dozen of ways

The safety of your private key is very important. We have seen a lot of persons lose some funds not cos they got scammed or anything, but cos they lost their private keys and lost access to their accounts. This is why it is advise that while you might want to keep it secured from others, also make sure that you keep it somewhere that is easily accessible to you.

Its an absolute truth that someone must safe private key very and must not be given to someone else no matter how. I think the safety way to keep coin is by using hardware wallet. Once you have your hardware wallet, you have absolute control over your fund.

In order to safely store my cryptoactives, I would advise using hardware wallets such as Trezor, Ledger ... I personally use the Ledger Nano S wallet, it supports more than 30 cryptocurrencies. When you use a hardware wallet, your private key, which grants access to your coins, is never displayed and is protected on a chip blocked by a PIN.

Really important thing to secure private key and also important to make backup of the private key also. Don't share with anyone is just normal thing. Even it's also good we store our private keys in the encrypted file in our system.

Hardware wallets is the best option . I had always thought they were silly toys. Boy was I wrong. They are the Holy Grail of Bitcoin storage and use.There are three main hardware wallets worth looking at: Trezor, Keepkey, and Ledger Nano S. They all do the same basic thing, but in different ways. They create the cryptographic private key on the device itself. This takes all the concern about hacking and trojans away.

Regarding privatekey, as far as I know hacker will not trying to crack your private key like it's an encrypted data but instead they will lure you to give them information through some kind of phishing website, so many people already got caught into this trap and it's a must for people to always recheck the website they were in.

Fully agree with your statement. Now, the attackers realized that the deception with the introduction of Privatekey was no longer working and transferred all their forces to the creation of phishing sites that receive your information, which further leads to the theft of funds from wallets.

Guys, VERY CAREFULLY see links to sites where you go.

The private key needs to be hidden well. I store it on several USB sticks in different places. Still I write down on paper and I hide to the house

Keep the private key very safe and private to anyone.
This will be the key on your wallet.
the private key is the most dangerous thing regarding in safety of your wallet.
make sure to have it on your own. never lose it also.

I would recommend you to have used the MEW wallet. These wallets have a very strong platform and You can easy to save the coins/tokens for the long term.

For making Myetherwallet is so easy to make and safe for your etherem and for lovely tokens and theirs a private key too. Just keep all your information for your self only.

Some more advise for security of your wallet. Everybody can add more


*Never save you private key in your computer.
*Write it in a piece of paper, save it in a safe USB (put a password for it)
*Use more then one place to save your private key.
*Never take a picture of your private key.

Save private key in safe place...backup private key in 2 USB with password and put on safe box ...back up again in hard disk eksternal with password ..is the only way for you to save your coin for long term.. if short term just save it in wallet or exchange for trading ..

Ofcourse, every crypto investor or people who are into crypto must be aware on his wallet. And how he can make safe about his wallet. We must know how to make safe about our wallets. In online wallet having some private keys or address, we must not give this to anyone unless you are trusting that person but be sure to have some backup list of your wallets and different private keys in order for you to not forget about it.

Private Keys, Address and wallet info's must be put in a safe place or kept it away from other people that are suspicious and threat to it. We must know how to easily and right manage our safety keys and different infos of our wallet in able to avoid getting scam and end up losing all of your funds. We must be aware of the things might happen if we let our wallet info's known by others. Be wise in keeping it.

The security of your private key still has very serious consequences, because if you lose it, you can lose absolutely everything that you had in general, I mean a deposit. So be very careful when you keep it.

These are the following ways to safe of your private key are as.

1. Hardware Wallet.
2. Never keep private keys online.
3. store your private keys and record it over a Cryptosteel.
4. Paper wallet.
5. CryptoArt.

Private key is the most important to secure your funds and to access your wallet if it's loss, your assets will be gone, because you can't access your wallet without key.

Why would you ever think to give anyone your Private key? 100% NO your public key is a different matter as this is your route to receiving funds. If you have a secure location like a safe or lock box then that is the best place to keep the print out of your Private Key or a USB I never keep electronic versions on my computer.

I keep my keys on two drives of information and what I consider especially important, I keep them in writing (in a notebook) with passwords. As the guys wrote to me, without the need not to go into the wallet and do not visit other sites.

yes. also do not keep your private keys online and install anti keylogger software to be safe from keyloggers. thats also most common ways of getting hacked. another thing is check website URL when you visit any crypto wallet online. specially for myetherwallet

Why we called it private key? It's a simple, because it's just for ourselves, and don't let nyone to know it or share in public. Be responsible, if you want to protect your assets, keep your private keys in safety place.

yes that's true, even though he is your mentor, never tell your private key. do not believe anyone
take advantage of 2FA for additional security to protect your wallet

Can you give me an example of a wallet that uses 2FA?  As far as I know, it's only on exchangers and it's not recommended to keep assets there.

 I am personally until now safe even though my mentor also holds my private key, because he's the one who taught me how to make a wallet, and I really believe him.

one thing is  certain in this space and that is you are your own bank. Although it is meant to make you smarter but it is the most scary thing truth be told. Safety of our private keys are in our own hands.

Yup you don't need to tell anyone about your private key and in my opinion private key isn't safe for us to store our coins. Maybe you should try to store your coins in nano ledger, it will be more safety than private key.

Just keep it safe on your laptop or write it down on a piece of paper and forget about it. You should always have an access to your private key, if something goes wrong. Be careful and never share your private address with somebody. It is automatic a scam, if somebody asks you a private address.

well i dont note any of my private keys in any computer or mobile device. as soon as i get them i note them to my notebook by handwriting. and after that i control one time if i noted it correctly or not. because they are very long and there is also possibility to note it wrongly.

And becareful of phishing ,its everywhere on the web now and even in your emails ,especially spam mails ,keep your passphrase and private keys to yourself only then nothing bad will happen

It's best not to give it out to anyone and make sure you store it safely e.g. in a safe if you need to if there's a valuable amount of assets in your wallet or better still use a hardware wallet if that's the case as it'll keep your funds secured as safely as possible

I firmly decided that I will soon begin to learn my private key from mew)to enter from memory)) I think this is a good asset protection

It is the basis of the ownership of the wallet. the key is given to others is a stupid thing to do. If that were to be held by others then surely owned assets in the wallet will be compromised with quite easily. Save your own personal key wallet belonging to be personal assets.

Private key most important thing. So, I saved my wallet private to key offline. Offline is best place for saving and secure for private key. Our wallet is most important to us. SO you need to put an text file or Microsoft word file for saving private key. Its good for safe your private key.

Private key is the source to recover your wallet should your machine crash and the original DAT files be wiped and without any backups. Keep it on a cold storage USB or simply on a piece of paper secured under lock and key somewhere.

If you want to be hacked or to be scammed just give your private key to others, it's just that simple. You should always consider the safety of your accounts to avoid hackers and scammers. Never go to unsecured sites and always check if your browser is secured. Check the links your entering because I've seen some modus where they copy the same web page.

I agree if one of the best ways to maintain security in a wallet is never to give a personal key to the person. Because it is very susceptible to occur in money, be careful not to keep the private key.

One of the most important thing 9n the Cryptocurrency is the safety of your seeds and private keys of your wallets. Once your lose your control over the private, you will definitely lose all the coins you have camped in your wallets.

The safety of our key is very important and never entrust it to anyone except to your love one or family members because if something happen to you your holdings will never go to waste.

Wallet are made for coins to be kept safe and also to ensure you do not by mistake or by any means give out your private key you can print ot out and keep somewhere safe but away from online stuffs cause the moment your private key goes out then your hard work is gone

That is true, every newbie needs to know that the best way to make sure that there is never a hack or a threat to their coins is to make sure that they are keeping their private key safe. Never telling anyone about it, making sure that you are saving it in a place that is not connected online where hackers can get to the private key.

Everyone understands that if you give a private step to someone else then everything you have can be lost, even if it's your best friend, because you have to believe it is yourself. And my advice is to back up for every single private key you have.

it is very true that the private key must be completely kept secret and recorded in excel or word and saved as best as possible, because if anyone knows whether it's a friend, mentor or even a brother. and suddenly your money is lost. who did you blame. because everyone can take and open your wallet

Absolutely, giving out your private key is the worst thing that you can ever do as you have given that person unlimitied access to your wallet. The best way for me to store it is to write it down, somewhere that no one can get to it. So in the case of your computer getting hacked you do not have to worry about the hackers getting their hands on the keys

Storing your private key is the most important thing in crypto. And probably the most difficult problem to solve. I can only recommend you to not store it on the internet (cloud, email etc.)

Private key is very important in the use of Bitcoin and altcoin, lost or hacked, leading to the loss of all Bitcoin and altcoin! Care should be taken before using the applications and storage options

Private key is the most valuable thing an investor has. If your wallet finds out someone else has lost your password, you lose everything you have. So you have to pay much attention when using private key :)

It is okay you said that guys like you. I would have said that even those who are nit in the crypto space, mere seeing the word private, they would have known it is personal and that it should not be revealed to anyone else.

Perfect.

You don't have to give your private key even to your mentor. If your wallet has funds then don't just simply give it to anyone and trust them with your money that's not how you keep your private keys safe. You have trust to him because he taught you? no that's not enough, your money is your money and you have to keep it.

Most of people say beware of phishing but phishing is a large area to be discussed and it includes lots of other security things that a person should now.
First of all we should have a clean PC with no keylogger or any other software that can steal the clipboard (the place where copy-paste is stored)
Secondly use wallets as much as offline and use trusted websites if you choose online wallets or so.

To protect the private key more securely, you should write the sequence of characters to a sheet of paper and store it away. If you save them on a PC, they can be stolen if a hacker the PC. So choose the safest ways to protect it from all dangers.

Mate actually you need to buy hardware wallet if you want to really safetly. With your hardware wallet no body cant steal your coins or private keys. also even you will not now about your private key :P

Your Private key is your main card that if you revealed it to anyone you will lose your game at any moment. according to some people who got hacked recently most of the are victims of email that when you click it and they ask you your private key. sometimes people just giving it out of ignorance and that's why they end up being hacked all the time.

Private key is very important aspects in our wallets, hoarding altcoins/bitcoin are really big deal but be sure to keep it safely. If you can't write it down on a piece of paper atleast print a copy of your private key.

Actually this suggestion is not only for new people, but also for all of us who have a wallet! It would be better if there are people you trust, for example your parents or your good friends who you trust to know the password. It will help if you forget or are having problems when you want to enter the wallet you have. I think that doesn't matter.

Keeping your private key in safety is a priority for every person.
Private key called private because it should be stored privately and nobody should know about it besides you

It seems to me that the best storage of their passwords and keys is the good old way on plain paper. You can print or rewrite it manually. But do not lose and no one steals information from you via the Internet.

Yes if you want to secure your coins no one will know your private key, but I suggest better if you have family who you really trust give her/him your private key incase what happen to you or die they will use it because what happen to you and even your family do not private key it is useless.

Hi there!

To secure your keys, try to store them in multiple places.
Print them out and safe them on more than 2 places at least!
In case of fire for example.

Dont ever share your keys with anyone!

Greetings!! 8)

To keep private key safe, everyone should be careful! You shouldn't take a picture of your private key, you need to write down on an offline paper or diary. If you keep your private key online, then anytime it can hack by the powerful hackers! Otherwise, you may memorize your private key and that is not the too difficult task! And, The best way is to buy a hardware wallet, hardware wallet can ensure your wallet safety.

Don't download any unnecessary software that you just see on the web. Most of them contains malware that will install those keyloggers or any unusual app on your PC to let the developers gain access to your PC remotely.

Don't click those popping ads because that's one of the source of those malware. I'm talking about those annoying ads that just pop out of nowhere, don't ever click them.

LOL. There are so many topics about this created before so I don't think you need to create one more topic to remind anyone about it :). Beside, coldstorage wallet is available to keep all altcoin and token safe so I don't think any hacker can stole your cryptocurrency if you're using a coldstorage wallet.

That's good thing to do securing you private keys must be confidential. You should have a back-up files for your entire private keys saved on excel file spreadsheet. This won't endanger your funds to being lost, because no one could have access to it but you. If you planned that any of your family member be trusted, them do it because your family won't let you go during days of circumstances.

Remember to use the privatekey method to store your wallet is not a recommended way. So many people are still believing to use that way but they are all wrong about that. in fact that these guys must learn how to store privatekey through use another way just like use the json file and it can be encrypted with the password

Yea of course protecting  your private key is a necessity. The thing is, it is also good to have it with you, making it mobile, you can save it in your smartphone just in case of emergency and for safety I went as far as coding my Private Key.

E.g (Adding more digits & letter and also removed some);

77e7577Y5373241d6ccddedb6a95fH5Fa9c2391443fe352a81a028944fdc48eeecd

Of course, the person that is giving their private key to other users is stupid enough. Make sure to treat your account carefully and if possible, never expose it online.

All the official application for mobile phone could be found in App Store or Google Play. When somebody tries to convince to download file, it is a trap.

I think we should keep it out of our system and store in external drives like pen drives or any form of external devices, so in chance of hacking or any other malware attach, our private keys always remained intact.  This is I think best solution for our safety of private keys for our coins.

nowadays it is very dangerous to display our privatekey, many are deceived when following the airdrop which sometimes asks for private keys for the reason for giving tokens, but actually those who are like that are hackers to get the privacy of your wallet, so be careful

The best way (in my opinion) is the "old school" way to store it. Take a piece of paper write it down and keep it at least 2 different and secured location!

Yes of course don't leave you private key at your desktop or in your computer that easy to locate your key for you make it sure that you never stole you key  or just write it and keep it on your secret pocket and didn't get your coin. The best thing you use wallet was the hardware wallet because you and only you who are knowing that key and it also a offline wallet that never been hack you account.

You can also encrypt your private key or passphrase using your own develop encryption for better security and put your private key or passphrase in a secure place. Even if someone will find it, you are still safe from thief or hacker. Just be sure to tell no one how to encrypt your private key or passphase.

The best way to protect your wallet is to buy Trezor or Ledger Nano, but unfortunately I realized it too late after I had been hacked, remember when the HOLA app stole many secret passwords from many...

In general, it is better that no one would call that you have any key at all. This is simply not their business. I do not announce it. I carefully check all the papers on my desk, so as not to make a note anywhere. It is very important. Since all your work and savings can fly into the tube.

Safety of your privatekey is squarly  in your hands! Yiu must guard it with outmost care or you may find out that your wallet is emptied of it's fund! One way of keeping your private key is never to keep it online!

It is important that we'll have our private keys safe because the security of our earnings rely in it. There should only be at least one person who knows our orivate keys aside from us to make sure that it is far from being hacked. We should just entrust it to a trusted person.

If we are talkign about security, you shoudl also remember the need to check information about the ICO before the investing, because there are too much fakes.

This is very vital, using PC's with no keylogger or software that enables stealing the clipboard where copy-paste function is stored on the PC is one vital safety precaution that a lot of people tend to ignore. Is there a way to find out and even purge the PC of this malware please?

The main and Golden rule of saving your coins on the wallet, it is never to tell anyone your password . And try to keep the coins on the wallet that you do not specify anywhere in the companies and projects of generosity. It's called a cold wallet.

It is fair.  If you don’t want any unauthorized movements from your wallet, then you don’t need to trust your key to anyone!

New guys like you may read a lot of tutorials that is written especially for them. As for me, creation of such topics does not have sence, because it will be lost too fast.

privatekey and keystone are the two most vital items that we must maintain their security, because that is access to enter the wallet where our access is

This is the most important thing, to keep all your private keys safe. It happened to a lot of our community members, that they keys were stolen or they just forgot their phrases to restore the wallet. Just be more careful with such important docs as your private key.

You should even always be careful what you want to download in this day and age, and as long as you are not sure of the source of such applications, it is always better you go for what every other person is going for.

Generally, the safety of something is dependent on your approach to the security of that thing, and as long as you are not able to get what you have secured enough, then that is going to be a very huge problem most of the time. Just ascertain most of the time, where you are storing or entering your private key, because once it falls in the wrong hands, you are done.

there are so many new traders or new bounty hunters who do not have such knowledge and do not know the difference between genuine and fake website links, sometimes they are fooled by pressing the link button provided, so many who are victims are new people who do not have much experience to secure their private key.

Yes, the safest way to store a private key is to write it down on paper or print it out and put it in a safe. Then, without a great need not to go to that wallet. Also check the computer or device from which you go to the Internet for viruses. And finally, turn on 2fa.

as much as possible you keep hidden from anyone, because if your wallet key is
owned by someone else, metamask cannot block it, we will definitely lose all
our assets, never trust anyone about your wallet's private key.

If you are new in the cryptocurrencies, please be careful about the phishing mail, they like to say your wallet have the potential hacked by someone, you need to login and change your password, if you entry any password in this page, you will lost your wallet forever.

So many ways that your account or wallet can be stolen , you always need to stay away from email or site by someone you don't know even the one you know and keep your private key both in soft and hard way to secure it and never let anyone know where it is stored or kept for safety reason .

Ye, and I was attacked when using hola. It stole my Key and moved all the ETH and the tokens I had hold there, It is best not to use any software because it is very dangerous and can steal user information anytime

  I think the key is always the most important thing to protect your wallet, you can not give to anyone. Although the security of the wallet is so high, you still have the potential to lose money because the hackers should always pay attention to your wallet and protect it as your personal information. sorry

You are absolutely right that the private key of your wallet should only be with you and should not be given to anyone, but that’s not all to protect your wallet. There are other ways to hack your wallet. One of the most common ways is the phishin site, in other words, you can send an interesting message with a link that leads to a fake site and if you do not understand this, you can also get into the hands of a hacker. Also, by sending you files, you can get remote access to your PC and also find out all the important information if it is stored on your PC. In any case, you need to be very careful and closely monitor the information that will be sent to you, and sent her will definitely.

I believe that people lose their coins out of your wallet to blame but himself. Scammers are and will always be, and you have to be very vigilant with your data. I do not know how you can fool your head to you personally gave your password to the wallet

I totally agree with you, your private key is one of the most valuable properties in the cryptocurrency world of business, so you must protect it with all amount of seriousness,do not disclose it to any other persons.

Yes it's the most secure way to store the private keys, to write on a sheet of paper and to hide in the safe made of steel. Some older people who are not so good in computing create even paper wallets, it's easier for them.  

I completely agree with you. We can not of course recognize the fraudster in front of us or not, but the key to the wallet is the information that can not be shown to anyone, even the closest people .

You even have to keep a good personal key and, you and others. Even better so that your wallet is safe, keep your private key in a place that has no impression with the internet.

I will write down my private key on paper and use my hardware wallet to save my token property.

The safest option is hardware wallet dude. YOu can buy ledger or trezor and with that way you can feel safe about your private keys. With these hardware wallets even you dont know your private keys  .. That is really good thing.

The safety of your private key is very important , there are few reminders from the wallet provider which is myetherwallet ,so just follow those reminders and avoid too much exposure of your private key , so that it will not be accidentally detected by the hackers, do avoid those mentions phising sites that mighr dangerous to your wallet, keep your private key in the safest place , and be cautious and safety always.

yes this is the most important thing to keep the assets that we have in the wallet, so that all is good then you have to save the private key and also I suggest you also maintain the password properly

you are right,,   :) :)
right now we have to be very careful with our wallets and private keys. it's hard to trust someone, and one more thing i also give good advice to secure all of our important data, that is, don't visit any links that enter via email or from other social media. it could be a link that will make you lose your assets.

The safety of private keys lies in the care of the wallet holder. Hackers cannot enter the wallet and steal the private keys unless the holder send it out through a phishing site or store the private key in a susceptible email or storage.

Yes, we must be more careful when opening the site. For safer storage, my friend recommends storing private keys offline, such as flash disk and others. So, until now I still believe that file storage with offline methods will be safer than hackers.

We also consider on visiting scam sites(accidentally) which could be similar to the legit one. The lost of account keys problem is still existing unless we take actions on it individually. No other person could help us, it is our own security measures we usually practice at all times. That is why, we should be vigilant and read carefully or bookmarks legit sites to avoid from visiting phishing sites.

Personally I don't keep my private keys in my computer, I have them stored in a flash drive. For me it is much safer than being in my computer to avoid getting hacked. I visit different sites and I don't know wether they are safe or not and by storing them in a separate storage I can rest assure that my private keys are safe.

Private keys play a central role in verifying these messages, identifying senders and recipients and securing networks. Anyone who knows your private key can steal your funds.Any valid signature bearing will be accepted by the Bitcoin network. At the same time, anyone who owns an individual key can create a valid transaction. These two things being done together mean that someone only knows your private key can steal you. So never give anyone a private key, and remember to install a private key with a strong and unpredictable password.

Be sure to store your wallet credentials away from online or from the exposure of internet connections to ensure that there will be no harm coming from your account. Always make sure also not to expose even your ethereum address online to be able to keep confidentiality on your wallet.

Also always check the validity of the sites you access, that are asking about your private key. make sure that is the real sites, just like myetherwallet, cause there are fake websites that are used for phishing,  it absolutely will take your fund you keep in the wallet if you enter your private key into a phishing website.

I recommend you to try out some wallets which have a very good feature like accessing your account even if you are offline, also accessing your accounts through many various ways not just through username and password. My Ether Wallet is a very good wallet which enables you to use JSON file in order to log in to your account which I find the most secure.

of course we have to guard our private keys so that no one can steal coins from our wallets, but it is undeniable that hackers are now getting smarter to steal other people's private wallet keys, one example is by phishing usually by manipulating wallet site by creating a site that resembles the wallet site, so it should be more careful and do not just enter our wallet's private key into a less trusted site.

Possibly, a lot of people do not understand the importance of the word private, which makes it not to be for the public eyes and in short, its safety is totally dependent on you and how you store those private keys.

This is the main reason I always say that rather than putting your private keys in different places, it is always better to at least get a hardware wallet for cold storage as the private key is stored on the device. In that case at least, you have your full control. Also, asides that, you really need to be watchful where you are entering your private keys in most times.

Of course, protecting your savings is a very important point. And I only have a few suggestions. Do not keep all your money in one wallet, do not use the same passwords and do not go there very often, only if necessary. But all these are simple tips, and if you are very worried, you can pay for good protection.

storing Private keys is very important to keep our funds stored, I have lost my ETH in 2017, it's not because my private key is known by my friend, but because I have included my private key one of the phishing websites, so all my funds are lost, Hopefully my experience can you take the lesson.

this happened because of carelessness, and I found many similar cases. I recommend securing your important files on several devices including Google Drive or HDD so that your files are safe.
this must be done regularly.

In the crypto world you are responsible for everything. No one will promise you 100% security, and if they are - it's scammers. Don't trust them.

This is really a problem, I am of the opinion that it is impossible to store all of your assets in one wallet, it is better to have several addresses.

When comparing this to the normal time it will be very very helpful to be safer and good way to make more safer business otherwise it will also be a very good way to do some of the businesses like this that's why I hoping it will be very useful thing for us.

I am keeping my coins in a wallet so for sure there is not a risk holding them there as long as only I know where my passwords are and my private key is really private

It is best to select a separate device for working with cryptocurrency wallets, which will be used only for this. It is very easy to do by buying the cheapest smartphone and installing a wallet and two-factor authentication on it.

Your private key is the key to your bank so guiding jealously  and  it is not a misplaced priority. The private key is so arranged that once your private key is compromised then the hacker or the thieve has taken over your wallet and can come in any time and goes out anytime. Infact you are no longer the owner of that account. The need to protect your private key is not overemphasized because that is your bank where you keep your fortune. Never give out your private key for any online  transaction. There are scammers sending  message on the forum about a project that will  soon pay, informing their victims a  to click a link to finish their registration. Do not click any link.                                                                                 

There is no dought, wallet key is very important to keep your vital information. if  you loss  then somebody stole your digital currency. so always safe your
private key and protect your digital money.

also better to keep it out of computer, better to save in flash drive , and when you enter the wallet choose any another way then private key

Private key to your wallet is not a matter of discussion, it is practically a no go area! If somebody is initiating discussion into private key, you should know that person is a scam from get go!

I keep my private keys on a flash drive, and I gave the flash drive to my lawyer. I think even if they want to find me, I can't give them my money.)

If you're using a wallet based in private key (Myetherwallet, Metamask etc) the safest is to archive with password the file containing your private key and, if course, not to holding it on online platforms (e-mail, google drive etc).

Personally, I'm a big fan of cold wallets. I bought a Ledger Nano S, it has no private key, funds cannot be stolen from here and this is definitely the safest solution existing today. (It costs ~100$, but it worths every single penny  :) )

Yes, this is indeed very important to do for you to store your personal belongings, do not let the secrets you know by others, you must be good at keeping your assets

Same here, always encrypt the file that contains your private keys stored in USB's.
If you can get a hardware wallet like Ledger or Trezor, even better.

the private key is the entrances of the wallet. When this can be accessed by others then surely what is in the wallet will be lost completely. do not store it in the site online because it will be very prone to hackers who will indeed roam free enough. but certainly, also don't get too tightly keep because even if missing then it will culminate in not usually opened the wallet as well.

  ;D Well, about my key no one knows. Does not have access to my key. This is a risk reduction. Even friends do not know that I am fond of cryptocurrency. Safety at the highest.

  I also use USB with encryption, they give maximum protection.

The easiest way to protect private keys is to save it to USB flash and set a password.Still be sure to ensure that you do not end up on a phishing site.Your attention, your safety.

Better to keep your key encrypted, there were wallets who gives back ups in different form for us to be away from any malicious software trying to get the private key. I have a wallet called HODLER wallet that gives secure backup, this back is stored in a encrypted archive so no could have accES. I have it on my email and even though they hacked my email they can't still get what's inside the file since it requires another password. The password are in different form like QR code. We could not trust anybody with our funds, tgat is why it is essential to keep the password safe and have backup for it.

I would not say this is about how old the person, or how good is with computers. Personally i'm not the biggest expert with security on computers, even i'm working with it every day. I heard this idea from several developers who i know personally and i know that they are really good at what they are doing!
So it's more about the "offline security".

Ensure you keep your private key and never give it out to anybody for whatsoever reason. Most importantly avoid phishing site. Got hacked few months ago,  inputted my private key and before I knew it all my ETH in my wallet was gone.

i'm hiding on my server =) it may sound funny, but it's safer this way. I'm hosting too many erc20 coins

Of course the security of our wallets depends on us, here you have to be careful and keep your secret key out of reach of strangers.

Private key is the most important information about your wallet, together with the seed phrase. I would say, write both of them down to your notebook. You would have your info offline and avoid visiting the fishing websites and telling someone your private key.

If we have some wallet we need to be safe it first, Because it is important for us. All of our coins are in there.
And if our private key it's not on safe situation maybe all of our coins it will gone.

I don't understand how some people can pass the security of their crypto currencies on the second. It's crazy. Can be they and honor their wives on other people leave?

I invest a lot of altcoin and most of all my altcoin are stored there, and I also thought this way, But I decided not to do that. I created a folder and installed a password for it, and protected my computer from malware. And so I'm almost completely safe

I think that I will tell the truth that few people say, on the Internet or even more, in the digital space there are a lot of security holes that, of course, only hackers who understand how to use them correctly can of course use.

Psrivate key is important, I keep my private key in Excel and make sure that the computer is in good condition, I use Windows 10 and activate the security system so that the data I keep is always safe.

The private key is usually leaked out by ourselves. Or click on the phishing website was stolen. As long as you keep it safe, you won't let it out. Please find a safe way to keep your private key. Because divulging your property will be a great loss.

it's not the best way, but it's a must not to share private keys with anyone if you don't want to lose your altcoin. especially for your pc's health problems that must be maintained. adding security has become a must for the level of protection

I am writing my private keys to a paper. I think that is the safest way. Because you know in that digital age everything is possible. Hackers can steal from everywhere so i am storing my priv keys in my notepad. I am writing with my own hand.

When you use hardware wallets , such as ledger nano , no need to worry that you'll ruin your private key. Your private key providing access to your coins, never displayed. Ledger all wallets have "chip / smart card", which includes the secure element. This chip is used for high security applications such as protection of biometric data on passports or credit card information

Be sure to use 2FA, store private keys on USB drives, always save yourself tabs in the browser with the official wallet sites, use protective shells like MetaMask.

Keeping your private key really matters in cryptocurrency. To safely keep your private key, avoid visiting unknown sites and also use hardware wallet such as ledger to keep your private key safe.

There are many good applications for saving your passwords and keys or you can put it in document or archive and encrypt it)

Private key is a prime factors in online virtuality or cryptocurrency because one if lossing anyone private key in mew wallet he might lost all.my friend lossing his private key hence he lost of all his altcoins, some ETH.

To ensure the privacy of your private key, I think you should buy external storage devices such as USB, saving essential private information on USB is very safe because if you do not use you will withdraw them from the PC so can avoid hackers.

One sure way to store your private key is telegram, and make sure you protect your telegram with 2FA to avoid unauthorized access to it, I have been using it for years and never had any issues with it

In order to protect your savings, it is enough to carry out simple precautions about which much has already been written here. You need to be very careful about this and not make elementary mistakes. Use special applications for safe operation.

Recently we often hear that someone mew has been hacked. As per my view, its happening because of phishing site. So we need to be careful and attentive when clicking on the links. To protect your private key from hacking i think we should write it on a offline paper and keep it safely. i think offline is  best way to keep private key secure.

Safety is overrated. Seriously, unless you just give away your keys to someone on purpose, there is a very distant chance of anyone hacking your wallets. Seriously, unless you own many thousands you are not a target.

I think for crypto enthusiasts their private key should be on a par with the heart or soul. I mean, seriously. It can not be lost in any case.

yes that's true, you never give a private key and password to anyone for any reason. keep them well, don't let your assets disappear because of your negligence.

Yes, I agree with this, never give a private key to anyone. Because the private key is to open the wallet to store our assets. If this happens from now on, make a new wallet and immediately move all assets.

it's depands on your activity I think.if you alert from several pushing site to control your private key then it will be good. another think is,don't be share your private key with another person.

I think in some cases I have known the problem for private keys is the user who has it because the accuracy of the user is very important when opening access to the website. and don't open the wallet too often if you don't really need it because it could be because your private key is spread due to an error when entering

Newbies are to be guided on keeping safe their privates key, after opening an account, they should backup the paraphrase, mnemonic or private key altogether safe with password.
Once this are linked out! The token are as good as gone.

I thought that the rule for not sharing your private key with anyone is something that everyone should have understood so long ago. The problem of theft of keys from users computers after their devices are infected with a virus is much more relevant. It is very important to ensure that your computer is not infected with malicious code, because all valuable information stored on it can be stolen.

The best way is not to store the key in electronic form, but to print the private key when creating the wallet and store this sheet in a safe place.  You can also download jason file, but the password to it, too, don't keep in electronic form. And, of course, to have 10-15 MEW , although it is certainly not very convenient , but more secure.

In fact, you said absolutely rightly that it is better to print information only on a paper basis and store it in a safe place, because electronic media and digital formats have certain risks. and paper is best kept away from fire, and nothing more.

Never used private keys to access any of your wallet. I never used my private key to access my MEW because it's not safe. Always open your wallet with Json file or with password and also make sure to used Google Authenticator in some of your wallets. Paste your private key in excel sheet and stored it in some flash drive for only one purpose for storing sensitive data.

Number 1 major rule in cryptocurrency community.
NEVER SHARE YOUR PRIVATE KEYS TO ANYONE.
Never share it to your friends or coworkers.
Never ever share it online, it will be your risk if you will do that.

The private key is something that we must take good care of, keep it where we feel is safe enough and never tell anyone our personal key, thus we will avoid theft that might be done by irresponsible people. My advice is to use the Nano Ledger to store crypto assets that you have, because that seems safe enough.

You should write down your private keys on the paper and make sure that you wouldn`t lose it and nobody will read it or encrypt them with strong password and backup this file in multiple cloud storages in the case of data loss on your hard drive.

I store my wallet in several documents and also hardware or software to keep security safe and also avoid phishing websites.

I also very much agree with the Private key is a prime factors in online cryptocurrency or virtuality therefore should be able to keep the fingers that are not responsible for, and do not let anyone else know then we could lose the entire hard results During this

Few years ago there was a trend to make a paper wallet (offline wallet) and store here your Bitcoins, but I think that this caused that so many Bitcoins are now lost because people lost or threw paper wallet into trash.
These days are hardware wallet very popular.

It is indeed a great many ways to secure the privacy of this key depends by the owner also heck, in the Save in USB and pc also delicious just advice the gan anyway preferably at either gan in order to keep the guard when his usb virus

Safety of your private key should be your priority and every other safety measure should be duly observed!  If there is a mistake in the handling or uses of your private key,  it could lead to total loss!

In any case, many times already many users of cryptocurrency offered the easiest way to solve this problem. This is a paper-based printout of all of their secret keys, so they can be saved without problems and with proper secrecy.

yeah just keep your private key dont give to anybody, ignore all message that give you a reward with give your private key.
when you want login always look a site, because so many site phising for MEW.metamask etc, check the connection secure or not.
for the last make backup for your private key.

I think that safety is the most important thing when trading. Crypto market is unsafe today because more and more people want to earn money, not everyone wants to earn using fair methods

My secret key is on a separate flash drive, and I only use it when I need to make a transaction. I have never shown it to anyone and I am not going to do it! Safety is paramount.

I doubt that people close to you can use you to get money, more likely that you will stumble upon any phishing site and give the key and password to scammers.

There are currently so many ways to make money easily, therefore we must be careful. I suggest that you do not download or do activities that endanger your computer because piracy can occur through sites or files that you download.

Lol, why would you give your wallet to anybody? It is your money and you should keep it in a safe way. Better if write it down in a piece of paper and hide somewhere safe in your home. Don't store all your private key in a soft files.

The private key is best stored on a separate flash drive. And never store on a computer that has constant access to the Internet.

make a second protection on your private key, and always be careful visiting websites, always use bookmarks if you visit the site to avoid phishing

Be sure to safe keep your private key on a safebox. As long as you keep it offline and all of your access key, rest assured that your funds is safe. And also do not be fooled by the impostor admin in the telegram that asks for your private key.

You should also always remember about need to use the latest version of poweful antivirus, because it other case you are easy target for fishers.

There are two ways how to protect your private key from hackers.
Never go online with your private key - so, create some paper wallet.
Or buy hardware wallet, this wallet will safe your private key outside the computer - hackers cant access it!

Go to the wallet, only through the browser bookmarks. The most popular, kind of hacking, through fake links.

I prefer with the hardware wallet, and I think it's the best wallet that we can use. Besides that, we don't have to afraid from the attacker, as long as we can keep the hardware wallet safe and no one knows where the hardware wallet, then we are very safe. We can use the safety box in our banks too to keep that the hardware wallet and only we that will keep the keys of the safety box.

Exactly, don't trust anybody with your private key, no matter how close they may be to you, crypto is money and people can't be trusted when money is involve in anything, it is your personal use and it should always be private.

Some of my keys ill save them on different driver so that if ill forgot or lost my key iv'e have some extra.
It is important to save our private and do not let it be lost because it is important for us to be protected our coins.

I suggest you split your funds in several wallets. Also keep your long term tokens in 1 wallet and participate in bounties and airdrops with another.
Sometimes you can make a mistake and disclose your private key etc

I actually use an open source multiwallet where I store all my funds in one app. The wallet allows me to generate private key for each coin but stored all in one software. It woyld be safer since its more organize, and the best thing About it is that, I can have tge private key in a encrypted file having in different time like qr code. The wallet is called Hodler wallet, this is the only open source multiwallet available. It is best to consider that yiu hokd the private key NAD not being entrusted in third party like exchanges or closed source wallet.

There are two modes of private key storage;

- Hot storage; which is online
- Cold storage; which is offline

Having your wallet details installed in online wallets like Metamask is ok, but for those who's wallets is of much value; i'd advice that they imbibe cold storage of their coin as you never know when a cyber hacker that has been spending months in an attempt to hack into the site will succeed.  ;D

Already, some people has given good ideas on how to personally keep your private keys to yourself and not share them with anyone. I think i'll go with that idea. ;D

Safe your private key in an offline file and have a printed copy of it.

Private keys are the most important thing for any crypto investor because, once they are lost, the cryptos in the wallet can never be gotten back, so in my opinion the best way to store private keys is in a cold storage, offline and safe from damage.
I prefer duct tags which cannot be burnt in a fire or damage in a case of flood.

Yes I do really keep in my mind always the safety of my private key every time I create my personal ETH wallet because the moment I will lost it I am really sure that it would be near impossible to retrieve it so usually I save my private key in my USB being archived first and with password so no one could really open it except me.

only our personal key security knows that don't let other people know it, as much as possible we have to protect our wallet keys,

Private key is really the most important thing in crypro. We really needbti store it i  a verry safe place because all our asset will be lost of private key is lost. I believe that we all know about this things. We maybe didn't want to loss so we need to take good care of our assets by protecting or maybe storing our private key in a very safe place.

Private key is important thing to access our wallet. Better keep it in safe place and never share it to anyone. Many cases peoples wallet accessed and their coin gone because they can not secure their private key. If we want to secure more our wallet, buying hard wallet is good option

You can also try some different ways of logging in into your wallet. In myetherwallet, there is a feature where you can login offline, and also through the use of JSON file, just upload the file and enter a password, through this, you can log in without the need of your private key.

My kind of wallet I am using allows me to log in using QR code which is more easier. That is just one way of logging and I find it easier. One thing I like about how this qr code is that it is packed in a encrypted archived folder so no one coyld have access to it even malware. Find HODLER wallet and see for your self their secure backup called HSB, this feature gives importance on how to properly keep tge private key.

In addition to storing it in a safe place, we must also be aware of hacking through sites or anything that can be accessed through our devices because there are many hacking cases that occur through these things.
then if you save your private key on your device, then you also have to spread it on external storage so that if your device is damaged there is no loss of your private key.

Safety of your private key should be your first consideration and priority everytime you are on the internet or you engage in cryptocurrency activities.  The moment you make mistake of unnecessary exposure of your private key,  then your funds is gone.  Your device is your number one means by which your private key could be stolen,  take care of it and make sure is free of viruses!

Im doing that also to put some of our private keys on my computer but ill think it was not safe, So must better to put some password or transfer in any device so that it be safe always.

Its true that we should not share our private key to others people. Beside securing our private key, we should aware with suspicious link that sent to our email. When we visiting a website, we shoud always check web certificate and its much better if we not using public wifi

This is understandable, but if such a case happens when a hacker hacks the server and gets access to your wallet? the case has already been and no one is immune from this, so besides the copy of the keys, you also need to follow the news about what happens to the wallet itself.

I think that the safest place today is a paper notebook, because it is he who can help today. Because everything else may simply not help. I think so and this is just my opinion. Maybe there are other options?

yes of course our wallets must be properly guarded and not do stupid things by giving private keys to others, whatever it is, never send private keys to anyone if your pocket doesn't want to be empty. carefully save assets because all controls are in your own hands

To reduce the risk of a key falling into the wrong hands, I keep my keys on removable media!

Any online wallet is prone to hacks so if you want the safest, get yourself a hardwallet. Though when it comes to private keys, you also have to be careful in handling your hardwallet keys. It'll be harder to retrieve your coins in a hard wallet if you lost your keys there.

You have point on this mate but another thing if you want to keep your wallet really safe you should not trust in copy pasting. If you do, make sure not to copy the whole numbers, atleast copy your private key incompletely and type the missing one after pasting. Through this you can keep your wallet safe from hackers.

There are too much of hacker or scammers here in crypto industry where they create some fake forms, fake referral links, or even fake exchange's sites, just to get the private keys of the users or people who signed in their wallet/s on those fake sites. It is better to check first the URL , if it is secure before proceeding in.

Also be careful to the hackers. Hackers are everywhere roght now. They know that many people earning big money in digital currency, and if they know that they can enter to the site of different companies they'll do it just to sneak any amount that they can get. To have extra theif they will target the investors of the company which they will give false site, but the appearance is just the same of the safe site. Just getting all the information needed to transfer all your money. Be careful guys

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good advice. I think those people who use Private Key will help you feel more relaxed when you will try to open your wallet

Safety in crypto space cannot be over emphasized. It is very important to secure your assets, nobody needs to tell you. Please for private keys, never backup using social media or email, use an offline backup. Use web3 browser extensions like metamask to access web wallets, do not input private key directly, to avoid phishing.

There is no perfect way to store your cryptocurrencies. Hackers are getting sophisticated in unlocking private keys and I think every security method is susceptible to at least one attack method. Never disclosing your private keys to anyone, offline and online is always the first measure to secure your crypto. Then you can add additional protection so if one is breached there is another to counter any threats.

I always say that if you store or operate with more than 100$ in crypto it's better buy a hardware wallet. It costs around 100$ so in my opinion every crypto trader/investor/hodler should invest 100$ in the safety first.

Yes indeed. Now it’s harder and harder to distinguish a true website from a fake one. The name may have a dot or a letter that is similar in spelling and that's it - you are trapped. Your passwords and private keys may be available to hackers at once moment. You also need to be careful with e-mails and links in them.

Yes it is paramount to protect your private key but also use additional measure by activating 2fa. Save in more than 1secure location

that is true and very important, keeping the private key of our wallet from being known by others. And message me, be more careful in browsing the internet, and open links that we don't know, because there are many fraudsters that end up endangering our privacy, including the private key of our wallet.

I printed it out and put it in the closet then locked it. Hope there is no damage. Protecting keys from hackers is really a difficult thing

Yes you are right. This is the most important. Hide him and no one not to blow. It is also better to have another computer for cryptocurrency support. Which will be most protected from fraudsters.

indeed, all privacy such as private keys should be stored in a safe place and don't let other people know what your close friends are. You must be careful because your assets store well if you need passwords that are not easily known by others.

If we have the coins and need to safe from hacking so we do not have to go in fishing websites and do not click on any email without Verification. If you have keep backup of our private keys.

When you are storing all of your funds to the paper wallet and then you should be free from that problem. Those people are storing their altcoin in the online wallet that able to get this problem. As long as you never try to connect to something suspicious and i guess you will be fine. that's the only key.

Private Key protection is the very difficult challenge for beginner. Because they don't know about hardware wallet. They depend on myetherwallet and private key store in online as a output majority of the victim by hacker for make some mistaken. You never keep safe in online i believe it.

One more recommendation is to make sure that your private key is saved locally. I prefer using keepass

I recommend using encryptors, they can protect your private keys well, the main thing is not to keep them on devices with open access to the Internet.

You should back up the Json file. I didn't even care about the private key. If possible, buy yourself a Nano S Ledger to better protect your property.

Yes. Your private key is very more important when you are talking about your wallet although not everyone use private key some use phrase to all is more important, another thing is never use the same email address for airdrop and your personal email for those who keep informations on email and always with different passwords.

I agree with you, the main thing that beginners should understand, your private key to the wallet you should keep in a safe place and do not tell anyone. If you are asked to provide a private key, then it's scammers. For greater security, I advise you to also buy a hardware wallet.

There is a new project that would be taking care of this problem, it is the project's signature that I am presently wearing, they aim to create a cold vault where you can store all your private keys and even be able to recover the. In the event of a loss.

Keeping private key is very important but is not the only way to keep your wallet save. You should also keep your password and you should be mindful of Link u click when ever your are sent link in your mail.

I do not think that the storage of the key causes someone problems, you can just save the private key on a flash drive and store there, without connecting the flash drive to the Internet , I think it is worth installing a phishing plugin that will protect you from this as usually hacked phishing

The best way is not to get oneself compromised.
Never save your private key on your mobile phone just as mobile could easily be compromised. Another thing is thatn if the private keys is been saved on the mobile device, one might mistakenly enter a phishing site which will automatically stole all the private and seeds saved on the device.

Safety is paramount! It would be a pity to lose accumulated coins! Therefore, I don’t especially hold anything and drain as quickly as possible!

I don't think one needs to be told how to deal with his or her private key, no matter how careless you are you need to be more careful about your private in order not lose all you have earned or bought. Never believe in any airdrop who requires for private key or claiming to earn you big money which is what attracted people more.

Private keys are like passwords to your bank accounts. It make sense not to reveal private keys to anyone. There are lots of scams around to scam users from their private keys. Some examples are airdrop, claiming fork coin and etc.

Why would you give your data to anyone? Your wallet is only yours. I would store all my personal data on a separate removable drive.

I advise people not to regularly use private key to access their wallet. Instead use applications that support crypto storage today. You only need to log in once and can use it until you want to logout from that wallet

The best way to keep your private key safe is to right it down in some note, offline. Or just try to learn by heart.

Safety of private keys it is your own decision. You have to take care about that. Just learn a bit more about preventive measures and level up security of your computer. Also always use Metamask!

I don't trust to the different electronic keystores like ledger, because there are a lot of cases when this wallets was sold with a special programme like keylogger which stole the key. I prefer to write my private keys on the paper.

The most important way to protect the wallet is to not share the privet key. I recently wanted a privet key with the excuse of distributing a lot of scam project awards. Nobody should get that. airdrop or bounty project privet key does not want. Those who want Privet key are malicious fraudsters. Don't give anyone a privet key.

Well issues on wallet and private key are really vital since that is where we keep our treasures you play careless and you loses everything. Also never trust anyone when it comes to the crypto world and keep your private key safe.

Keeping your private safe is the best way to protect your wallet,  under no circumstances should you disclose your private key to another  you can also go the extra mile by saving your private key offline

the best way to  safety your private key and even your json file is stored it on your hardware device, like usb..

in this case I think the best way is for those of you who have to secure the file in a safe place from the things that make it worse and when you want to access your wallet then you must be careful

More like crypto 101. Your Passphrase, mnemonics and private keys are all yours and on no account should you also give it to anyone not even closed friends. Learn this and be safe from a future hack

I now have hardware wallet ledger nano s for more than 1 year, i never had problem with it. I think is more safe and secure to have a hardware wallet, because even on linux i see some kind of viruses.

Just use hard ware wallet to keep all of your crypto safe.
But if you couldn't afford it then make sure that you would secure it in any flash drive a new one would do to know that it is free from virus or any threat.

private key really shouldn't be anyone else who knows it so we really have to take care of our private key very carefully but still that does not guarantee that our wallet will not be hacked because if the computer is hacked then our data can be retrieved so that in addition to securing the key Personally we also have to pay attention in choosing a wallet.

and in my opinion the hardware wallet is the safest.

Private key is like the the life to your funds. If you lose it, then all your funds will be gone. There is no remedy. The best way I protect my Private key is by writing it out in different save locations , incase I lose my device. I use it as a backup, in case my device gets tampered with.

The private key is best stored on paper in the format of the QR code, in which case it can be easily read and accessed your wallet.
I have long printed all my private keys in several copies on paper and keep in a safe.

I am very aware of that, therefore I don't give it to anyone, I always try to maintain privacy because even though I only have cheap coins but I will save it because maybe one day the coin will be able to have a high price therefore I am not want to lose it

Well in the crypto world there are lots of hackers or people who lurk our wallets if we are not careful and keep our wallet keys safely, sometimes a lot of phishing is circulating so don't click on the link that enters our email, for example from airdrop and so on

But of course, you can give it to anyone in your family that you can trust, because these coins are considered investment someone has to take over it in case something unexpected happen, you can do a will for it and entrusted it to all your inheritors there are so many instances that coins are lost because there are no inheritors..

If you are going to use a hardware wallet, keep the private key in a place that nobody knows. It will be even safer to use another computer for coins. Or, using Ledger and trezor type hardware wallets will provide the best security.

It is certainly safe , but if a person performs a bounty then I do not think that it will be profitable to buy a wallet , and even people with a Deposit of up to$1000

just a tips if you using ether wallet , better use third party like metamask
that add on on browser really amazing , you dont need to input your private key to any exchange anymore.
that make your wallet more safe from fake website

Always save and secure the private key wallet that we use to store cryptocurrency assets. because if someone else is lost or stolen then we will lose all assets owned. This private key is like our life that we must guard completely so we don't lose it.

No matter what type of the wallets, better store the key offline and protect with password. I think it can be stored online, but must be encrypted first with strong combination.

in my opinion, to use the private key you should also have other alternatives such as the mnemonic phrase and use it to move

Of course, no one's gonna buy a hardware wallet to keep a few kopecks on. I'd like to buy such a hardware wallet too, but for now it doesn't make sense.

Of course, because the private key is very important and I think everyone will save it in their own way which they think is safe to do and I don't think anyone wants to share their private key with others, even though it's his own best friend and maybe some of them tell his friend for certain reasons.

First rule in cryptocurrency:  never give out your private keys, Passphrase or mnemonics to anyone. This is sang like a nursery rhyme every day in cryptocurency yet people still fall victim of such scam

The most reliable advice is to keep all the coins on a flash drive or other autonomous PC which is not connected to the internet. Don't trust them to anyone, even close friends, and never send  own keys them in the Telegram or e-mail, even to your account.

thats right,,
but, not only for new guys my friend,, old guys must keep their private key in the safest place too
because private key is very important for us  ;)

The wallet that you use is indeed the best wallet at the moment because for me the hardware wallet is the safest wallet.
but still we must be careful when using it because if it is lost it is not impossible that your wallet will be hacked.

The cost of a hardware wallet is less than $ 90. If you plan to deal with cryptocurrency, then I think it is not big money for the security of your cryptoassets and safekeeping of nerves.

Hardware wallet most secure i got recommendation in many users. I  have been using hardware wallet from several months but i scared about my computer protection i mean if unfortunately i will be face pc hacking incident when hacker able to hack my wallet. I think Paper wallet is better than hardware wallet.

i agree to this statement, but if there are lots of users to your pc in your area, then it could not be safe, one thing i did so far is to safe keep your data in a private email not used in any transaction.

Giving the private key to someone is not a wise decision! It is totally unpredictable when your wallet can get hacked! So, Using hardware wallet could be the best decision and to secure your private key or hardware wallet's phrase code, you should write them down in a offline paper, never capture a picture of those codes and you shouldn't share any of those codes in online. Then you will be safe enough!

You are not thinking if you will give out your private keys to anyone without permission.

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Private keys are like the pin code of our bank accounts in terms of cryptocurrency.

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Don't give it to anyone unless you gave permission.

Do not safe private keys in browsers bookmark ,its very risky if you do because even phones are infected with spyware's backloggers this day ,don't be surprised if all your coins went missing ,the wise

If you are not using an hardware wallet please don't save your private key in any computer/dropbox etc... it's very risky. The only safe way to store it is to print it and put in a safe place.

Where do most of you keep your 12 or 24 word phrase key then?  Do you break it up in multiple locations?  Or all in the same place but break it up?  Do you put it in 2 different locations in case?

We have make our private key is safety because its more important thing by investing in ICO project or participating in bounty or airdrop, without have safety private key our balance could be gone and lost.

It's hard to entrust your data from any online service not even an email, much better to save it from your data storage and keep it away from anyone unless those who you full trust, private key are the one which hackers are trying to steal from you, it's your protection for your assets so make sure to keep it very safe.

the question is how do you secure your private key?
if I personally do not tell my private key to someone else except the one I trust and also I save it on a computer that is not used by anyone other than me and also the computer is only specific to crypto needs so it is less likely to be hacked.

Of course there is no one who want to give their private key to other peoples.
But the problem is, you will need to use the private key when you want to use the wallet for send coin.
This is the flaw of your safety, thats why many peoples recommend using other method than private key to use the wallet.

Yes, you must be careful of the fraud committed in the Crypto world. Our digital assets are very important so we have to keep them in a safe wallet. You have to take good care of the private key of the wallet and not be easy to trust others.

most cases may lose their wallet key fault of their own. and for a case like this could have been avoided with vigilance. but for cases with hackers who can find keys and breaking into our wallet that probably we cannot avoid.

Yes, of course this is very important to do, lindungai assets that you have, and do not entrust other people to save them, this will avoid crime if you save it yourself, because your current assets are your assets in the future

The private key is the key to our safe, so if we know someone, of course we lose the property we have. even though we can check where the coin goes, but we don't know who did it