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Im quite new to crypto so i wanted to know what exchanges do you use and i'd be grateful for advises on security. I currently keep my crypto on localbitcoins but it recently got hacked to im concerned for my money. I want to move it somewhere safe but still be able to make trades without much fuss. Im still learning to trade but im pretty serious about it. Can you recommend me a good exchange that hasn't been hacked yet?

You are doing it all wrong.
You said you have experience loss already with localbitcoins thru a hack and yet you still want to do it to another exchange.
Why not look for another option to keep your crypto currencies?

I suggest you go look for a cold wallet by now and afterwards we can give you some exchange that are trustworthy. But still I wont prefer to leave it there for a long time.

It is not really about the hack, for anytime it could happen to any exchange. It is about your security first. The very least you could do is value your money for now.

Stick to bigger exchanges if you want to keep your coins there for continuous trading. Most big exchange like binance offer tighter security like smaller or new exchange sites. But the safest and most advisable would be to get yourself at least your own wallet for now. Don't keep your coins in exchanges. If in case things went good and you have a budget for it, secure your funds through a hard wallet.

I always keep my funds fully secured because i can't keep my funds in any exchanges like fork delta, etherdelta.com and other decentralized exchange. But some centralized exchanges binance, kucoin, and houbi also can you keep in those.

I also like that to secure my funds or assets in binance especially, because the exchange there is very good and fast and safe from the word loss

If you're not yet trading,m your funds should be stored on a secured wallet and your private keys secured.
For secured exchanges, go for those with the highest volumes and daily trades, they are more secure, but not totally immune to hacks.

If you afraid exchanger that get hacked, it is better to save assets in wallet. Try ledger nano, because if you save in exchanger, there are some risk that will come with it. If the exchanger hacked like your experience with Localbitcoin, you will lose more.

If you want to keep your money safe, you should try offline wallets. The fact that exchange has not been hacked so far does not mean that it will not be hacked. For storing your BTCs you should stay away from exchanges that take the management of your assets.

To find a good exchange that has not yet been hacked, you can look at the list of the crypto currency exchanges with a high trading volume, for example:
https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/

As a rule, large crypto currency exchanges hire highly qualified employees and invest heavily in security, therefore you most likely will not be hacked if you choose one of the TOP-20 crypto exchange markets.

Obviously if you want to keep your coins "safely" , you don't need to stored it on any exchanges around.

But since you want to do regular trades and don't want a hassle way of depositing and withdrawing it and vice versa, you want an exchange where you can put some "trust" in terms of "security".

Well then, you can put a shot on those reputable exchanges that already established a good reputation. What are those? Honestly I can't suggest you some since I want you to learned it by yourself. Who knows that we might have different experienced using those exchanges.

Just remember one thing, it's not 100% assurance that your funds are safe even using a big exchanges. It's just that you are minimizing the risks of losing your funds when you choose a reputable one.

Goodluck.

Take your money and save it in the bank.
that is probably the safest way, because when you start trading you are sure that your exchange is safe for saving assets / coins.
if you doubt how you trade. this is a fundamental issue of a trader.

You should remember to avoid store your crypto currencies with large amount on exchanges. There are no exchanges with 100% safe. Moreover, you store assets on unfamiliar exchanges, it will have higher risk. But if you ask for the best exchange to keep currencies, in my view it is Binance. However, you should think to store it with other ways, for examples : keeping it on hard wallets.     

Avoid keeping your crypto on exchanges. There are no "safe exchanges" really. If it hasn't been hacked yet, it probably will be in the future.

If you're actively trading, I recommend Coinbase and Binance. Both are very reputable and both keep the vast majority of deposited crypto in cold storage. Out of an abundance of caution, I would avoid storing funds there though. That's what wallets are for.

I recommend downloading Electrum if you need a lightweight, user-friendly wallet for storing funds.
https://electrum.org/#home

Use an offline wallet like Nano Ledger S to keep your crypto assets safe. Although expensive but its worth buying specially if you have lot of coins at your disposal. Do not just rely on on exchanges as there are lot of exchanges that have been infiltrated by the hackers like the latest was Cryptopia exchange therefore even trusted exchanges are not reliable too.

i keep my crypto in nano ledger S,and i think is fully secured because everything we do manually.

For sure lot of people keep stolen you funds if your information about your funds in not secured such as people need information to access your account so don't share it to other people you don't even know.

You recognize the dangers of storing your coins in an exchange and yet you still want to do it, take control of your coins and do not keep them at exchanges, if you are going to be a trader then as soon as you end your day get your coins out of the exchange, that way you will reduce the chances that you lose your coins to a hacker that found a way around the security of the exchange.

if you want to hold your coin for the long term and you dont want to trade just put in myetherwallet.. im sure your coin is safe and private key protected..

I could recommend to store you money in a hard wallet, I'm everyone who say that to you.

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However, since you are asking about exchange,..
Binance is a good exchange, it has been hacked but it does not affect the traders money, it's still intact and they had improve their security already.
You should go with big exchange is safe keeping funds as an alternative because they have their clients as that way they boost their reputation.

I'm sorry but to be honest, all exchange are open for hacks I believed. So there's also that risk to lose your money in an exchange. That's why we practice not to put a lot of money in an exchange and just enough for you to make trades and then withdraw them somewhere safe, in a hard ware wallet.

However, if we look at history, Binance is a good choice, well they have been hack but they are very quick to respond. https://hackernoon.com/alleged-hack-of-binance-linked-to-viacoin-pump-bb9066bf96bf. It was not a direct hack, although hackers used to spoof Binance and then steal credentials to be able to access the account of unsuspecting victims.

If some one is a daily trader and require funds then using multiple secured exchanges is recommended . Also for people who are long term holders and do not require it daily then better to store if offline so that you do not have to worry about the stolen or theft that might happen .

After these hacks I had read multiple things on google and researched a lot. Do not keep your funds in any exchange. There are two reason:
1. your funds are not safe. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5104081.msg49497618#msg49497618)
2. your KYC documents are sold after hack. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5099937.0)

If you want to play a safe game use non-cutodial exchange which do not require KYC example: CoinSwitch (https://coinswitch.co/) also more importantly use safe wallets(Like trezor)  and save your private key safely. Do not share your private key at any cost.

How exactly does this work? When you want to sign a transaction you connect this thing to your pc, then press the button on the device and then what happens?

All centralized crypto exchange has possibility to get hack,  and we dont know which exchange will never get hacked. So if you want to do trading, choose exchange  that has program that give more security for our fund.  Currently only Binance that has SAFU program that offer protection for fund of user incase any hack or similar case.

Yes, this work method is indeed quite good, where our token and coin assets will be safe. You can buy the swallow where the security of your assets will be maintained. I use it myself

I agree on that I believe that using an offline wallet is really amazing. It can really make our funds secure because hacker and scammer at always waiting for a great opportunity to have a victim. I believe that offline wallet is not traceable by the hacker and maybe it is also more secure and safer than storing it online.

No offense but that was a risky move of yours. Exchanges are not intended to use for coin storage, digital wallet or cold storage does. Yeah! There's no doubt that binance is a secured and trustworthy exchange but we can't still conclude that it will not be prone to cyber attacks anymore. Like on the famous line in Who am I — there's no system is safe — so keep playing safe everyone.

What hardware wallet would you recommend then? Trezor, Ledger?

The safest way to save your funds is in an offline wallet, but if you are a merchant, it seems that I would suggest binance. Apart from having good security, binance is also a convenient place to trade because it has a large trading volume and provides many types of altcoins.

This is what am i doing with my coins, I often use various exchanges to avoid getting hacked or lose funds. Even for my bitcoin i have bits stocked on many exchanges in case any on my exchanges fails to secure it then i have my fall back but i guess the disadvantage of using that kind of strategy is that you are paying much more fees than it should be.

Some ways and steps have been done by several people, but if you know that there are still many exchanges that are conceded and hit by hacker attacks that make the exchange place a loss, these thieves try harder than you do with the assets you have.

Safest is to keep funds offline. Funny thing is most of mine are online , cuz I trade a lot. So that depends, if you need quick access to your btc/altcoins, exchanges might be faster and generally safe.

The only way for you to secure your funds is to divided it and spread to different exchanges site incase the exchanges site who are hacked you still have others and that is really helpful for sure it's risky to secure all your funds in one exchanges site because not only the hacker you need to avoid also the possibility the exchanges site close.

If you just want to store your funds then why are you putting them into exchanges? Why don't you try Ledger wallets, or any paper wallets? Even a simple blockchain wallet can keep our bitcoins safe actually but you can use cold storages, hardware wallets and much more if you are planning to store them for a large interval and are much concerned about their safety.

If you have some altcoins or coins that provided in Erc20 use MEW wallet for secure wallet and easy to use. For sure it will secretly it will be on your own because it can't possible access by anyone.

I also keep my cryptocurrency in different places, including exchanges. But these are small amounts. The main part is still stored on the Ledger hardware wallet. I bought it immediately, as soon as I started to get more or less good profit. And I think that it is worth its money and you should not spare funds for such things.

I wouldn't recommend keeping coins on exchange at all, except the amount that you want to trade. Exchanges are not wallets and definetely are not secure enough and very volatile because of being constant target for hackers.
If you want to secure your funds it's much better option to keep them in different wallets where you can control private keys and adjust security features. Of course there is no 100% security anywhere but you have to know that you are responsible for your funds on your own and you have to use all available tools and options that could help you with that.

If you are keeping your crypto, I recommend you to use Mew, Ledger nano, or trezor. Using exchange its too risky, don't you know that mate?
Never repeat what you already did before, its some kind that you yourself is the one who killing your own capital investment.

I think every exchange has a big risk with hacking, so if you want to secure your crypto but still want to be able to trade, then it will be difficult in my opinion because if you choose that way you should still use exchanges and even a famous exchange will also have issue, which means that not all exchanges are clean of a problem.

yes it is very dangerous for you who do not have a very good security system, which can recommend storing it in a big and well-known wallet especially from security itself how you store it very carefully, if you want to keep it in the exchange that I recommend is keep it in guaranteed exchanges and the biggest to prevent everything at high volume such as binance, it is very good to exchange or trade, I do not recommend saving it to a new exchange site and not currently listed, money is very sensitive so be careful in storing it.

The securities of our wallets are coming from own upbringing. Even we used hard and online wallets still subject  for hacking activities.  The only thing we should do is to be very careful in visiting unfamiliar sites and check if is really secured. Sharing computers also to the other person might also a reason for losing our account keys. 

A good Exchange for security reasons is Liquid, a Japanese regulated exchange. It has very slow withdrawals (which is quite annoying...) since they keep 100% of their funds on cold storage, but this thing here for security reasons is excellent.

Here's the link: https://www.liquid.com (http://ttps://www.liquid.com)/

A lot of crypto wallets exist today but some of them have a questionable existence, it is better to stay on the old wallets just like MEW, hard wallets and Electrum wallets. Though it isn't have a 100% fully secured and so we can't assured for fully secured funds as it only matters how the owners handling it. I'm one of the long users for these wallets and I'm not experiencing of losing my funds on it.

There are more existing good exchanges out there just like Binance and others yet it is not recommendable to put your money in any exchanges. If anything bad happens to the exchanges they won't give you a refund of your stolen tokens, though Binance is different to the other exchanges and i can assure you that.

MEW on the hand is good for storing ETH though once you lost your private key then you will lose your ETH forever.

For me using localbitcoin is useful and it secured, I suggest there's was many exchange secured and reputable keeping your fund like coinbase for example.
Or you can search at the google what is the best exchange fit to use in your location or country where do you reside or use NANO hardware wallet that is very sure feature incrypted keys.

saving money at the bank is the safest way, but if the money we have is too much then we should be able to save it not in one location, we can divide it into several savings, to keep if something unexpected happens, for example the bank we choose went bankrupt, if we want to trade then we can quickly move our money from the bank into the crypto trade.

If you want to save safely, offline wallet can be the first choice. When you use a wallet then you can store it safely and use it when you need it. But for a trader with an active transaction, this is quite troublesome because it has to send transactions frequently. The next choice is to save Bitcoin in an exchange that already has a good reputation so that the Bitcoin you have will be safe and secure. Many choices and in my opinion Binance and Bittrex are the main choices for investing Bitcoin that we have.

No centralized exchange can guarantee you a secured fund.  Just make sure not to leave a lot of funds on exchanges especially the centralized ones. It's just too risky. Only use those exchanges when you want to quickly buy or sell your Bitcoin. Again make sure you  don't leave a lot of funds there after trading.
By the way, It is said "you don't own your Bitcoin if you don't have the Private keys."
If you need secure place to store your coin safely, then use electrum wallet https://electrum.org/#home as some above suggested.

I agreed I also now currently used that wallet an Electrum, feel safer than other wallets.
You can actually go ahead now and save your cryptocurrencies in hardware storage if you really wanted it to be 100% safe.
Of course, you have to save the hardware yourself as well and keep it in the safest location you will ever imagine.

But if you are looking for a good exchange, you may also try etherdelta.com. But if you want a centralized exchange, try Binance since it is one of the most trusted centralized exchange. I don't know why you were hacked in the exchange and let your money be stolen by someone. You have to be more careful next time because everyone would love to look for someone like you in this industry and make you a victim.

Since everything is hackable these days, we should be smart enough to handle our earnings and holdings. We should store and keep our earnings well so that we'll not have any regrets in the future. I guess keeping our earnings in a hard wallet is better and more secure.

I totally agree in this especially if we are dealing with the centralized exchange they were really the most common target by hackers.
People can use the cold storage hardware wallet for an instance if you don't feel the safety of your own cryptocurrency.
Just use the legitimate one that has a highest reviews hardware wallet to avoid unsatisfactory outcome.

Localbitcoin platform didn't face any security breach so its your problem because you revealed you password to someone,you can increase the security of LBC account by 2FA and IP authorization and few more tools available.

Don't ever use exchanges wallet for long-term holds, exchanges are only and only for short-term or maximum in some cases can be used for medium-term holds, There is a possibility that an exchange that is working well now won't exist tommorow, and even there is no scam, these exchanges can be compromised, It's best to keep your long-term holds on your personal wallet.

You may want to look into covered shorts

As the saying goes, there is no place like home, so the best place for your coins (whichever you have) is your local wallet, desktop or otherwise. But since you still want to trade and earn profits (which is understandable), the safest approach is to trade using borrowed funds while keeping only part of your stash in an exchange account as a collateral. In this way, if things go wrong like exchange shutting down for whatever reason, you will lose only part of your stash, while still enjoying the ability to trade your full potential if they don't

Maybe people face problem that they want to save their money securely, but want to trade every they want. Maybe what be solution is trade on DEX types. Because it is like only open their wallet and then sell their coins. But give our private key to a site is have big risk too.

Yes there are lot of opportunities to secure your friends more safely in any changes but you need to check your friends at least once in a day because the market is not in your control so making your funds are more higher is very easy but doing it properly is the big difficulty happening here.

so far the good exchange that I use is binance,
the first reason is because binance does have an experienced team, and it is evident from the features and displays that are given different from other exchangers,
besides that we don't need to do KYC to be able to withdraw.
or if you want better, you can look for exchanges that support the cold wallet feature, it can be better.

I believe in Binance and this exchange has never had a security problem during the past year. You can also keep your coin safely in Ledger Nano S because this is the safest wallet with the highest security in the world in this market.

The most COMMON advise is to transfer your funds back to a cold wallet whenever you're done trading. (SAFE)

Why not buy a hardware wallet and transfer funds to it whenever you're done trading? (SAFER)

Just buy and don't trade. Keep them in a hardware wallet. Create a portfolio and check whenever the price spikes then trade/cash-out. (SAFEST)

Binance is a big trading platform but it was previously accused of letting hackers infiltrate investors' accounts to place buy and sell orders.
But I think that is the mistake of investors when using computers. Now there are lots of un-virus links and we just need to press the wrong ones, our computer will be stolen data very quickly.
So to secure your money, you should use a laptop and only use it to work. Do not download any other strange applications. That's how to keep your account safe.

I think it's Okex. Okex is really a great trading platform and has the largest volume of trading platforms operating in the crypto market.
A large exchange must have a good security system. I have been using the Okex trading platform for the past 2 years and I have never been hacked.

Exchanges are not safe, two recent cases:

[1] Cryptopia hacked - https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-new-zealand-cryptopia-exchange-hack-continues

[2] Quadrigacx founder die - https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-exchange-quadrigacx-missing-145-mln-after-death-of-founder. Without giving the keys to the hot wallet.

All wallets are not safe as well, so you need to be careful on how to protect your account here in cryptoverse. Used strong passwords, 2FA's, backup your private keys and not click any suspicious looking sites around. Or if you're really paranoid, get a hardware wallet like Trezor or Nano.

I'm sorry but to tell you the truth, all of those exchanges are prone to hacking. They only need time to crack the code and 'voila', it's hacking time. Don't be lazy and go buy yourself and trezor wallet. Even binance is the top, they could still hacked because just take a look at our banks that still experiences losses from hackers.

Its not easy to transfer from funds to hardware wallet once you have done trading. I have keep some bitcoin only for trading and I keep it on the exchange. The profit which I get from trading, I transfer it to my desktop wallet. I have not buy a hardware wallet yet as I think desktop wallet is enough for me.

That linked is really helpful for us to find a good exchange that we can ensure that our funds are safe. The most advisable exchange that we can use is the Binance due to its high security and low fees.

The easiest way would be to use a hardware wallet.

However if you don't want to spend the money or wait for your hardware wallet to arrive you can use a wallet such as Electrum with cold storage. Basically you will need another computer/laptop which NEVER connects to the internet. You would use that computer to create your secure seed and it would sign your transactions for you.

If you want more info go to the Electrum section of Bitcointalk forum at:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=98.0

Here is a simple guide how cold storage works
http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/coldstorage.html

Electrum is one of the cold storage that we can use in order to protect our bitcoins from hackers. Even got many issues last year, the users are still have trust to use it because of its high security. It is easy to use than the other bitcoin wallet so it is advisable to use.

I use ledger since it's very acessible and it's safe. I don't keep my funds in exchange or any other third party wallets since it can be hacked. I always tend to hold my funds in which I have my private key.

Mishandling of our wallet were causes of losing our keys especially when we used to share computers to log in. Hard wallets is so expensive and isn't available in our country,  so we used online wallet just like mew but I've never experience of losing my keys or even hacked by someone.

To keep your accnt. Secured always avoid phising site, one's you enter or install all personal transactions performed with your computer will be recorded in the attacker's database . In this way, the hacker's retrieves your personal information and can completely empty your accnt. Second, always enable your 2FA authy in your wallet.

I think you can use any wallet/ device/ network you want but the easy way is never share with others, don't trust someone take control your equipment. Second thing is never save your asset into exchanges, many problems about this one. Last thing is always up date your information about new system and fees, in this one can break your activity, trust me.

I also believe that to keep your funds secured, you have to spread out your portfolio projects that you researched and make sure to always have a cold wallet somewhere.

Those famous exchanges that i know in CMC that is the most secured funds will putting your money to trade for exchanges because other exchanges that I've know is not secured and getting scammed in past years.

My advice is that you should not keep all the assets you have on the exchange, do you not see that the exchange place for cryptopia is having a hacker attack and causing them to lose their assets? so my advice is not to keep assets in exchange because the risk is too high.

I always use Binance to do my trade.I also use Bittrex,Coinexchange etc.You can visit this exchange to get better idea.

I have never seen that Binance been hacked . So i can suggest you Binance ,Hopefully we will never face anything like that.

Cryptopia is different from other exchange . others are fully verified to be secure we dont know yet if crypto hacking is inside job  or what if they intented to scam their users ?

For safety reasons we must not store all of our assets and cash in one place   . we must diversify them and scatter them on different kind of wallet or exchange so that we can have a back up if ever the other one will be hack .

I always keep my funds in my personal wallet except any exchange like forkdelta, etherdelta, hitbtc many more. I just keep my funds Binance and Kucoin exchanges because of safe exchange.

Actually all exchanges are very likely to be hacked even though they have high security. My advice after trading, it is better to move the results into bank account and do not keep it too long in exchange, because if it is too long to save it is likely to be hacked very high. I always do that if after trading. I usually move the results that I get to my savings bank account. I still keep it if I want to trade again but it doesn't last for a long time. That is my way of keeping my funds safe.

Exchanges not meant for storing it is only for exchanging your funds so if you are storing there means then it is your mistake.Wallets are the one we need to store our funds and the type of wallet will choose the security level and if you want maximum security then you should buy an hardware wallet.

exchange is only used to make sales and purchases of cryptocurrency and look for benefits that you can get from utilizing coin price movements, whereas if an exchange is used to store cryptocurrency assets you have that is a bad choice because your assets can be lost because the exchange can be affected hack like what happened some time ago.

If you want a secured exchange then don't ever enter and put your capital in some site. Especially if the site is new and you have no specific information about it.  Must obtained information first to assure it's safe . ! And choose thus site that has a 2FA as well to protect your funds from hackers.

It's better to not use the funds for anything than to keep and safe in secure wallets. There are many secure wallets we can use and even in our personal computer to save those funds. But we never have a chance to grow the funds because we decide to not use in anything and the money itself will not turn to bigger. Trading will be another way to increase the balance we have but of course, we need to select the recommend website and have a good reputable, so we don't have afraid for the bad things that might happen.

it's true because 2FA security is very safe for me to protect my assets, because all this time I have used 2FA security, my wallet has never been hacked

Research is the best way that you can use inorder for you to find a exchange that can ensure the safety of your funds. You said that you been experienced a worse scenario where your bitcoins are stolen by hackers,  you should be smart and be intelligent always for you not experience that situation again. There are only few exchanges that have high security like Binance, Bibox and Okex. You should choose careful!

Localbitcoins would be the last place where I would keep my coins knowing the fact that it recently got hacked and the fact that there are so many scammers in that playground.
If you have a big capital and trade with a small amount from your capital then what can do is, keep your capital in a trusted wallet(Mycelium, Exodus etc...).
Then transfer the amount you want to trade with in to an exchange that is more secured than the others(Binance) . This is the safest way not to loose all your capital and still trade on an exchange.

Thats right, if you save in exchange then it's only for trade funds, not saving funds for the long term. You have to know that third
parties can scam anytime, so use a safe wallet like desktop wallet or hardware wallet to save your funds

You can keep your fund in an exchange that accepts 2 factor authentication like- email verification, phone verification, google authentication etc. So that you & only you have the access to your wallet. You can use "Coinbase", "Bittrex" & any other exchane that has a good reputation & two factor authentication facility.

what you mentioned is a wallet exchange, if you save the assets you have in the exchange it will not be able to provide security guarantees, it is better that you can store them in an offline or other wallet that you can store with yourself without connecting to any device such as ledger.

"Hack yet?". So you want to join an exchange that hasn't been hacked yet but has a possibility of being hacked? No exchange available is hack proof. No matter how much they "secured" they are, there are high chance that the exchange might get hacked. So use it on your own risk. And again, using an exchange as a form of wallet is always a bad idea.

we have heard a lot about exchange hack these days. more will be hack in the future to come. the best option you have is to move your crypto into a wallet. whenever you want to trade, move it to an exchange and trade. remember to move your funds out immediately. you complete trading.

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If you have lost your phone or your SIM card has failed, remember that all mobile operators allow their users to recover a lost number.

For prepaid subscribers, when recovering a number, 2-3 phone numbers are usually asked for which the last calls or SMS were sent and / or the amount and the date of the last refill.

For contract subscribers, it is usually enough to come to the office with your passport.

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Storing our funds in exchanges isn't safe for the assets we have, because that was prone for hackers to breach the security of it. Making your funds secured, the best options is to keep it in your personal wallet that has not been exposed to any decentralized exchanges. By the time you wanted it to be sold for a good profit, you're be sure to fully access the funds at 100% safe profit gains

Stay in a dark place where you’re the one where it is and of course you should also make a notes on it so if ever something bad happen to you, someone will receive that money. Exchanges is not a good place for big money in the long run, it is not that secured so look for a hard wallet which is better.

my opinion for saving your funds in a wallet for exchanging will be advisable and the choice of choosing your world will be more security and it will be more trustable if you follow the simple basic things then your money will not be hacked by anyone and it will be prevented by only for having this type of simple steps.

Purpose of exchanger actually is for trading, to trade in short time after that cashout or withdraw our money into wallet. But people who actually make exchanger to be their wallet and save their money in there for a long time.

Don't ever tend to make exchangers as your wallet or storage on your crypto. Just simply choose up wallets that you do have the full access or control of its private keys.
Exchangers can be hacked anytime and its better to be cautious than sorry.

A sample of total shit post.  8)

I use many exchanges but I never safe my asset in there, in out fast no compromise. Secure is relative but the way is always same, never share device/ network and don't use exchanges as place to safe asset. Try one exchanges and learn from them because good or bad is depend your personal opinion.

Binance you can keep it but even that exchanges site is safe  is safe better to keep it to mobile wallet for more safety or more secured. Necause we don't know when the hackers attacks the exchanges site but we still know the binance is secured exchanges site but we can prevent losing incase that hackers attack so keep it to the wallet that you trust that you know your coins is secured and no one can access your account except to you.

I usually use cold wallets. Although not cheap, hardware wallets are definitely the best and safest way to keep our money. As for my buy-sell transactions, I don't have a trust shortage because I use the Binance Exchange because Binance was the only one in the market that can be trusted for the time being. In general, I'm careful not to use online or web wallets because I can't trust these wallets. That's why the hardware wallet is always on the wall.

It always better to use the offline wallet to save the asset and we have many options to use. We have multi coins wallet, bitcoin qt wallet, mycelium, jaxx, electrum and else so I am sure that we can find easily for what wallet we want to use. Don't save the coins at the exchanges for a long time unless you are trading the coins because we don't know what will happen later. But if you feel to save in the exchange is the best option for you then you can go with your choice and don't hesitate because of many suggestions on here.

Agree, hard wallet is always the safest but since we also love to trade and we don't want to transfer our funds from time to time, we have no choice
but to store our coins in a certain exchange. Binance so far is the best in the business now, they are the number trading sites IMO, and they reach that
no. 1 spot in just a short period of time because people trust them, they have already build a good reputation in the crypto world.

doesn't the OP ask for an exchanger? everyone also knows that saving money in a bank is the safest thing, but how can a crypto currency be stored in a bank?
I suggest that the OP choose an exchanger who has trusted security.

Still, we don't have any bank based exchange and it is impossible to hold there for long term. Every exchange is risky which we cannot able to hold them for long term. It is always good to move our coin from exchanges to our own desired wallets for securing our wallets.

No one can guarantee that any exchange is 100% secure. You need to take the risk if you want to trade. When it's about security and trading daily then you need to come up with a balanced solution if your have huge amount of BTC. For small amount, you can not do much because these withdrawal fees will eat most of your profits.

Anyway, I actually tried to find anyone who mentioned about multisig wallet and quite surprised to see that no one mentioned it yet.

For 100% security of your fund I would suggest you to use a MultiSig wallet perhaps 2/2. You can download Electrum from their official site (https://electrum.org/#download), verify it (This is very important) then install. Learn how to create a 2/2 address. User Electrum in two device for two key of the wallet. Your funds will be nearly 100% secure.

Cheers :-)

Well I guess, your making a mistakes in your way dude. Instead of keeping it in the exchange why not try to store it on Electrum if you have

Bitcoin. It is much safer than exchange site platform. or if you really want an exchange try Coinbene, IDAX, kucoin and Binance and okex.

It is complicated to keep your money safe in this online world. I think if you want everything to be safe, use FIAT and store it under your bed. With Cryptocurrency there is no way to be considered the most reliable.

I don't think bank will make our funds safer, because bank is capable to declare bankruptcy which you're not safe to withdraw all the money you have. Only the insurance of the deposit will be yours as part of the agreement. However, storing your fund with crypto cannot be robbed as long as you kept it in your confidential wallet; specially your private keys will be the most important in order to havr full security of it.

Yes I agree with your. Stick and with only a bigger exchanges will definitely help you to make your funds more safer exchanges and choosing your hard wallet is also most important for a person to store his funds in most secured place.

And only keep your funds on exchanges IF you are doing trading. Withdraw whenever possible and store them to a wallet which you personally own where you control the private key or mnemonic phrase. A highly recommended wallet are hardware wallets where you don't need to input private keys or pass phrase. You only need some sort of PIN or password to give authorization to access it. Whenever not in use, always unplug it!

The exchange that you should use have high security for you to ensure the safety of your funds. Research about the exchange and its team behind. Research also the comments and reviews of the traders who used that exchange. In that way you can ensure that the exchange is reliable or not.

The best option is to diversify, one part in bank, another in cash, in crypto, in shares of the stock market and if you can in some business, I think that the golden eggs should be put in many baskets, because you do not know what can happen in the world :)

Exchange for keeping your funds ? Please take time to educate yourself for using the services on their intended purposes alone. If you "misuse" them then you may face disasters at any time. I like to suggest you to use combination of bitcoin core and electrum to have effective cold storage wallet. Electrum to watch and send where bitcoin-core for generating and being the actual cold wallet.

It seems like you're talking about securing your all types of funds but OP is concerning about his crypto savings not just fiats. Still I agree, we must need to diversify the mode of savings too. This principle of effective investments is applicable to everywhere and not just with investment opportunities alone.

Storing crypto with own private key is safe like MEW. Another hand there are more secure to store crypto in hardware wallet like Trezor, Ledger Nano s. I used the exchange site to store my crypto but now I am thinking it's not a good idea to hold.

you should not save too much of the assets that you have in the exchange because it will make you lose the assets you have and the market has the potential to scam as an example of exchanging hacked cryptopia so you have to be more careful.

It is odd but many people never learn that lesson until the exchange in which they are storing their coins gets hacked and they lose all their money, as the name implies an exchange is only meant to be a platform that allows you to exchange your coins for others but after that we should get our coins out of the exchange to the security of our wallets.

It keeps repeating itself, most of those who store their coins inside exchange are hoping to easy up the process and avoiding transaction fees, not knowing that chances of being hacked is always there no matter how they trut the exchange, we should all practice to remove our funds after the exchange already executed to protect our investment.

Learning it from the hard way is more regretful than taking some delays and paying for some fees.

There some exchanges that until now not experienced hacking because they have secured security compared to other and that is bigger exchanges site like Binance one of the most trusted exchanges site now and even me Im confident my money and token and altcoin is very safe but even that Im holding my coin to also mobile wallet and the half will be in the exchanges site.

If you are big investor then best thing for you is hardware wallet ,other than that do not store private key or seed on computer.and if you are small trader then you can store your fund in exchange that has no security breach in the past and provide additional security to your fund.

My favorite exchange is binance, but you shouldn’t be storing coins in exchanges. Exchanges should be use for trading.

I suggest you to get a hardware wallet, it is secure and user friendly for newbie. And you can get one for less than $100. Please get from the official website, you can research from Ledger and Trezor.

Get your funds off an exchange, unless you are actively trading them. But as you are currently holding them on Localbitcoins I assume you are just holding your funds. In that case, there's no point in holding your funds on any exchanges, even if they haven't been hacked. Better safe than sorry. You can use secure hardware wallets (buy a brand new one from the official site, not a used one) or smartphones or computers that have been built for maximum security (BitWings is one company that is developing such devices). Many beginners and even more experienced crypto people forget that even though blockchain is decentralized and secure, most exchanges are not like this. Most well known exchanges are still centralized which means they are not as secure as you would hope to. Just look at the news.

We know how prone to hacking if we are doing mostly in online transactions but it could be easy for us to access our wallets if stored it in our laptops.
But we should think that, securities of our wallets and keys it really matters of how we handled it, either we manage them carefully or letting somebody used it. If we are too careless of this things, there is a huge possibility that we lost them all in the near future.

saving lots of assets is indeed very scary, because the risk is very big, I suggest you start by buying wallet hardware, which I think is safer than exchange, nano legder is so safe

No one can say for sure that either a exchange is 100% secure or not.
But I do not that any exchange can claim their security as 100%. There are always chances for an exchange to be hack.
We do not any other option except to take the risk if we want to continue crypto trading. I hope that in future exchanges will insure their security more and more.

You already got hacked? What money would you move if you already got hacked? If you are serious about trading maybe you can start by speculating the famous exchange there is and if you think the one that didn't get hacked is safe you are also wrong about it. BTW visit the coinmarketcap website and find the best suited exchange for you. Good luck learning.

my first preference for securing the funds that we had in our hand will need a best wallet so it takes a long time to choose the best world will be the most important preference for me to take more security for my funds.

If you wanna keep your cryptocurrency safe so at first you need to make sure that your computer is clear. After that you should set up 2FA for your crypto wallet or maybe you should buy a hardware wallet to make it's more difficult to be hacked. Although price of a hardware wallet is a little bit expensive but it's worth

You're doing definitely wrong. You should never keep your money on a stock exchange or on a coin sale website. What you're doing is like giving your money to someone on the street and going move away. Keep your money safe on the bitcoin USB disk. If you can't do this, you can keep your money on your own computer (this method is a little dangerous for the new ones, because if your computer breaks down, your money will go also. If you going to keep your money in your computer you should keep a copy of your private key and passwords in a secured place).
If you don't want to deal with them, the best method for you is to store them in an online bitcoin wallet. Select the most secure companies when choosing online wallets. Like Blockchain, like xapo ...

No exchange is safe. your best bet is to get a hardware wallet to store your funds. only go to exchanges if you want to buy/sell. But never store on exchanges. If you can't afford a hardware wallet, another option would be to download the offline client of MyEtherWallet and create your wallet offline. that way, your private key would never step online. Then, you can store you tokens on the wallet created offline. If ever you decide to use that private key online, take all your funds from it and send it to a newly created offline wallet.

Just make sure your private key never gets online. if it does, simply change wallet.

My advice if you want to invest in long-term don't put your coin on an exchanger because in some cases Exchangers are often hacked by hackers, it's better to keep your assets in a hardware wallet, because it's safer from hacker attacks

Right, unless we trade daily, saving our coins in the hardware wallet will be good. Another option is to store it in our own wallet, through the application, instead of putting it on the exchange. And if we are daily traders, using only the best platforms from highly reliable exchanges is a must.

You need to keep most of your funds in your wallets and only if necessary to transfer them to the exchange

Yes, transfer it to the exchange only if you are going to trade and after the trade is finished you can withdraw the funds to your big wallet to keep everything safe. But if you use a famous exchange, I don't think it's a problem if you want to keep it there for a few days to reduce fees that might burden you. But still be careful!

It is very important to keep the funds safe. In order to protect the funds, you will first need to install a desktop wallet and place all your funds there. But install a desktop wallet on a computer where there is no Internet connection. Because of the Internet connection, the computer may be infected with malware and the funds may be stolen for it. So it's best not to have the internet. You can use Bittrex, Poloniex, and so to trade. In my knowledge, these have never been a scandal so far. So these are the best for trading. And in my opinion, Bittrex is the best one. I also used Bittrex.

Thank you.

Most decentralized exchanges these days are hackable and we can't get rid of it. We should look for a secured exchange where we could store our coins safely. If you want to be sure of your earnings, you should keep your private keys secured and safe as well.

Just dont divulge anything on internet most likely your keys. As much as possible ,dont log in on anything unusual or dont click any ads which can cause phishing and account hacking. We all know that there are a lot of people wanting to get money from someone's accounts. Dont be a victim.

Yes, wallet hardware has been very secure in this case. Big investors, who hold huge assets, use this way to keep things secure. Besides, a two factor authentication is also very instrumental in this regard. There are people who got their two factor authentication hacked as well but their additional security had been strong enough to keep their assets secure. A small investor could also use the exchange to save the assets.

To carefully store your funds you need to carefully choose exchanges and wallets for storage, decentralized will suit better, since only you will have access to your funds

The security of your fund is so important to any token holder. It is good to use international exchanges to do your business. It is true that exchanges get hacked some times but exchanges like Bittrex , Binance, Kucoin and coinbene are so much loaded in their security systems. I advise you research further on any of them and use.

He is right, you have to think of other options to avoid hacking, you know even a large exchanger has also experienced hacking and this can happen at any time. So you are not advised to save your funds for a long time on an exchanger, then to save your funds in term the best time is the hardware wallet. While if you want to trade because indeed your initial goal is to trade, then you must accept the risk, but I am sure also the exchanger platform prepares the best security, just the suggestion of the bittrex exchanger platform.

Keeping funds in your account is wrong. This applies to any platform, you must remember this. Bittrex is known to block accounts, Binance also does this, and you can also be hacked. Keep coins using a cold wallet is the safest option. As for exchangers, I use services without registration, it is fast and safe. At the moment it is ChangeNOW, perhaps you should check it out.

It's a traders choice is in Binance exchange I also currently used this exchange so far so good. Always choose a reputable exchange than shitty one to avoid exit scam just like what happens on cryptopia exchange. Regarding your storing fund, always used hardware wallet and if you trade on exchange only a small amount that you can afford. Remember, don't put all your eggs in one basket.

In my own opinion their's no good exchange site to keep your funds safe in a long term why? Because the tendency to hack the exchange site are too high, always do a in and out basis in any exchange site to avoid losing your funds its better to keep your fund in a ledger nano.

use a hardware wallet, which can give you better security than an online wallet. and next choose an exchanger that has a good reputation in terms of security. because the most important security is the security of the exchanger where you trade.

I think you should create an Myetherwallet account and create a MEWconnect wallet. It's a new wallet system and compared to the Ledger Nano S hard wallet, it has the same level of security as Ledger.
You will not lose money to buy Hard Wallet Ledger, MEWconnect can still help you protect your money.

It is really ironic that the reason people keep their coins in exchanges is to save money on fees when the fees that you need to pay for a transaction are worth just a few cents but the losses that you can suffer are enormous in comparison, this is like all of those people that do not buy a hardware wallet and keep their cryptocurrency holdings in an infected computer only to lose it all.

I store them not on exchange or any platform which has third trusted party. If you hold Bitcoin you can secure your funds in electrum or if you have multiple coins, you can choose the only open source multiwallet called Hodler. Both this wallet provides you your full control of the private key. This means no one can get your funds from you unless you misplaced the key.

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Store your money in your own local wallet man is just way too unhealthy to keep large amount of money in exchange and since you have lost before my advice is find a better wallet offline and keep your money there

Choose the top most exchanges like Binance, Hitbtc and Bittrex. But anything can happen from hackers even to a site which is much secured with its infrastructures. As an individual, one needs to activate the options provided by the respective exchanges like 2FA and etc. Have VPN installed in place as well. These would certainly secure your assets.

It is not at all safe to keep funds on exchanges, they can get hacked anytime, so the safest option is to keep your funds on Hardware wallet. If you don't want to spend money to buy it then free online can be a very good alternative like Blockchain. info for bitcoin and Myetherwallet for all your altcoins, they are quite safe.

in my practice I know that the majority of cases in the loss of their funds are the wine we are the users. First of all, you cannot use the same device for wallets with cryptocurrency, as well as for surfing various websites on the Internet. You need to use different devices, and this will make it possible not to get any viruses or trojans. In addition, you need to be careful about phishing sites.

Choose an exchange that has a large trading volume and of course has good security, of course. But now it is not the right choice if you choose to save funds in exchange because there have been many exchanges that have been hacked.

Nowadays many peoples are said exchanges was not secured to store our funds. I use Binance exchange it is completely secured with three factor authentication so still some exchanges are good to invest and trade the day to day investment.

true and for security, if I use 2fa myself because by using the security until now my wallet has never been hacked. so security of the wallet is the most important and the main

if to secure the proceeds from the crypto world, then half I will save in the bank and the other half I will make capital for trading and investment in the crypto market

The most reliable way to store your funds in wallets, not on the stock exchange. If you are a trader, dont keep everything on the exchange, but keep only part of your money. This is to ensure that you are not left with anything, if an exchange will get hacked. In addition, it is also useful to use several wallets, this will also reduce the risk of losing the entire capital.

I used to trade in Indodax, it was quite safe I think, there was never heard of hacking in Indodax, it's just that I don't know whether people outside Indonesia can trade there or not
and don't forget to use google authenticator and 2fa sms for email

Letting your funds to sit in exchanges is the worst idea. You should take out your funds in that exchange and do a favor to yourself to buy a hardware wallet which is a physical wallet for cryptocurrencies that is more secure compare to the online exchanges and online wallets. It is worth every penny in exchange of the security that you will get.

Don't save all your assets in cryptos, would be better you use crypto to trade according to the capital you need because considering the exchange there is a risk. but I think the exchange like Bitrex is one of the safest things since I traded in 2014 there was no problem.

if you wish to get profit at trading, why you not ready to get lost too?
i think no trading strategy with zero secure at trading, each exchange have same possible to get hacked, to run away, scam etc.
you must use real decentralization exchnage for secure trading

Never store your cryptos in exchange,just move them if you don't have to intention to trade it near future even for weeks you need to withdraw and deposit.

If you are holding huge amount of funds then move it to hardware wallet or any offline wallet which has private key to access it.

Why do you want to store your crypto in exchanges? If you don't want to install desktop wallets, there is always the option of storing your coins in online wallets. And please use wallets where you can access the private key, such as Blockchain.info. You can use Blockchain.com to store currencies such as Bitcoin, ETH, BCH and Stellar. And some of the alts and tokens can be stored in MEW wallets. If the amount is sufficiently large, then you can go for a hardware wallet, such as Ledger Blue or Trezor Model T.

No one can say exchange will not hack. Sorry for OP that you lost your fund. To be honest no system is safe. Howeve if you like to store small amount then install offline wallet like bitcoin core or electrum. If you want store big amount then it would be better to use hardware wallet like ledger nano. Web wallet a bit risky and it would be use for temporary transactions. You shouldn't trust on exchange or web wallet for long time storage of your coin. It might be hacked anytime.

each wallet has its own security level.and maybe if we want most secure wallet ,using hardware wallet could be the option.no matter if our asset value in small amount,who know someday its value will be huge amount.save our asset in exchanges really dangerous since many hacker attack it.

I use Yobit and Kucoin and both offers 2FA authentication which act as a master to withdraw my funds and even to log in to my account. Yobit even sends a code to email to which you have to click and it will match the exact IP with which you have requested the login. Quite impressive.

I don't think exchanges are the best place to keep your funds secured use wallets and keep your private key safe its more secure than keeping your funds in any online exchange turn on security settings if you are a active trader there are many reputed exchanges but I still recommend using wallet.

Currently there are many large and good exchanges. Currently I am using Binance, Bitfinex and Okex. These are huge exchanges and supporters always support me very quickly and accurately. I have never had any negative reviews about their team.
although transaction fees will be higher than smaller exchanges, it is more secure.

Most people never learn their lesson unless that something directly happens to them, we can warn the users of the forum that using an exchange as your main wallet is a mistake but they will keep doing it and will only learn to not do it once a hacker steals their money but by that time it will be too late and they will lose money that it took them years to accumulate just because they refused to listen to our advice.

Mostly this happens with people. They think exchanges are the safest place for their coins. Though this is truth, but how can you ignore the fact that they are doing businesses as well. They aren’t here for your help or some charity thing. Definitely they have their own marginalized profit ranges and mechanisms to utilize your resources for their own benefits. So better to avoid them when saving coins are concentered.

I really waiting for that new Ledger Nano X because on Nano S there is not to much space for a cryptocurrency wallets, sad but true.

The word keep means it could be for long term, and I don't trust exchanges for that, even the reputable one.
Get yourself a hard wallet so your assets will be safe, you have to spend for that but the risk of losing your money is minimized.

There are some exchangers that offer strict security, such as binance, bittrex, houbi and several other large exchanger. I often use binance, binance is one of my favorite exchanges. There are some things that I often encounter regarding hacked wallets and most of them are wrong owners themselves, because they are careless in holding their privatkey.

I believe the best way for us to keep our funds secured by finding a good or secure wallet that no one could ever hack and steal your funds. It will also be good if you split your funds in different secure wallets for you to keep all of your funds safe.

There isn`t 100% safe thing, safe place, safe investment. You can always think some way to crack some passwords, to steal a paper where it`s written, bank can be robbed, country economy can collapse, your house can burn to the ground, and so on. Splitting your funds is not good, it`s the best option we have, never keep all of your eggs on one place, old saying, million times repeated on this forum.
It`s not too complicated to have more wallets, to be active on more than one exchange. Have wallets for holding, wallet for everyday use, never keep too much on any exchange, it`s the steps you can make to protect yourself, if shit happens on one place you still have others.

It is quite to used hard wallets for the safe keep but it is not available in our area or it cost a lot when we buy it into the other place.
I don't want to spend for that much just for the security, in fact the security of our funds are just depending of how we handle our account and even it is store in any hard wallets.

If you are keeping bitcoins and you want to save it in the exchange, I think you must try Bittrex, Binance, Kucoin, Idax, and Coinbene these are the platform on which I think is safe so far and has a good market too in this industry. Though, all these platforms are requiring KYC to secure the account of their user clients.

I recommend saving assets in the hardware wallet, but the question is whether you are trading daily or trading monthly, if daily you can use large markets such as binance, huobi, okex etc., but if you trade monthly, I recommend keeping the wallet hardware and  when you trade you can directly send to the market and when you profit send again to hardaware wallet, don't save too long in the market, if you are worried about your assets

Keeping your funds to be secured in exchange you just need to enable the 2fa authenticator and having a strong password just don’t be stupid logging in and clicking so many stuffs that can easliy caused you by hacking

Never ever leave your funds in any exchange platforms since it is not 100% secured. Enable 2fa authenticator, and create a mixture of alpha-numeric password. Hackers are attacking exchange since they can get a lot of money if thwy succeed. It is better if you will get your self a hardware wallet to secure your funds.

Still this is not enough and your funds can be under attack easily.
Your key or password can be stolen with a phising link or something similar, and last but not least, exchanges can be hacked and you may lost the coins that you have stored in there. Hardware wallets are the best solution right now in my opinion.

Binance and Kucoin are 2 exchanges with excellent security level. Besides, they also have the function to order stoploss. Supporters are available 24 hours to assist you and you won't worry about your coins. but fee transactions are higher than other exchanges, you can consider this.

Hardware wallets are the best ever but becareful while choosing your wallet there are some sites selling used wallet so if you are storing your cryptos on it the old user might still have the keys so can retrieve on new devices and you will lose everything.

Basically you need to be careful in storing your files and data. Password authentications and safety locations of your hard files and soft copies in USB. Keepsafes should be locked and possibly you should have cctv's to review any uncertainties.

I am using Binance, bittrex as a secured exchange. It is very secured. I am using these exchanges even when it was 2017. By that time, I didn't have any problems regarding those exchanges. And if I may add, Yobit is one of the exchange I use. This forum is telling everybody about this exchange is scam but whenever I got coins from airdrop, this is where I sell my coins and there were no problems. Go on your own risk.

Ledger Nano S still has the best support from MEW and I advise you not to change this wallet. Although using the Nano S is very inconvenient because it has to be constantly updated but if your property is valuable those updates will help you avoid many unnecessary risks. In my opinion, the first thing to participate in this market is to find a safe wallet or find safe exchanges like Binance to keep the money in the best way.

No exchanges were safe to keep your funds so don't suggest any exchange to keep their coins,it is meant for trading when the trading done it should be moved to wallets.

If you can somehow register for an account on one of the Japanese exchanges that have a proper license, you should,,, mainly because all deposits there are guaranteed by deposit insurance. I cannot so I do not know how good it is, but I assume Japan is a good model. Otherwise you have no choice if you trade, you have to trust exchanges.

Keeping funds secure really depends on what you are planing on doing with them. If you plan on keeping funds for a longer hold then you need to get them into a wallet you control. Best would be to a hardware wallet.
If you are actively trading tho, then sometimes it is better to leave the coins in open orders (i know it is risky, but by the time you send them to the exchange the pump might already be gone).

I often use bittrex and lbank to trade. I do not choose large exchange because its transaction fee level is quite high and the steps to implement the transaction are quite complicated. Lbank and Bittrex have all the security essentials for your peace of mind.

Longterm holding is right we needed to use waller that we think that's secure. All of my wallet now is mobile wallet but bwfore I trust to this wallet I research about it and I already use that since I joined here at cryptocurrency. Open orders can have advatanges because you have target value once they reach it they will buy and sell the coins automatically.

First check and choose the best wall information. Then hold and save the coin safely. If hold the long time. Check the wall balance every time. Always active your account wall and connect the mail in the wall. Don't share the any wallet Information. Safe to use.

I totally agree with you, It is not everyone that can afford to buy a hard wallet, and it does not mean that those that are not using hard wallet has been scammed or exposed to security. Like you said, everything really depends on how we handle our accounts.

Some of us are so careless with our account and the security details, recently, someone tried cracking my crypto Gmail password, which he succeeded, but I was saved because of extra security measured I put in place. Like 2 factor authenticator and confirmation by phone before getting in. These features too are all available in these wallets, just that many of us do not pay attention to it, we get burn and we start shouting insecurity.

if you have a large asset, keep it in a safe wallet like a hardware wallet. if you are a trader then you have to be good at sharing your funds, and save a few percent in exchange for just a short term investment, and don't forget to use 2fa for each account that you have

If you want to keep your funds safe then buy a hardware wallet like Trazor or Nano Ledger .
It would be the safest wallet to use and don't leave your crypto on online wallets because they are prone to hacking .

It's hard to say that which exchange is secure or which is not. Yes, it's better way that if your collect your crypto big exchange like Binance, OKEX, Kraken etc. But before you do please notice there security system. And If you choose desktop wallet for your crypto then this the great idea for safe your coin/token.

The ability to hack online wallets is very low because they are raising higher security to create safety for investors. I think using wallet online will not be a problem if it is a Coinbase or Blockchain because these are the top 2 wallet I often use to keep my assets. Of course, Ledger will still have the hard wallet that I need to buy if I have many important assets to keep for the long term so the possibility of hacking will be very unlikely if I know how to secure my property.

In the evolution of technology, security is very complex. It is very important to make safety and security as the topmost priority. It appears that almost every single day there are reports of major hacking . As the number of hacks increase, consumer desires for security increase as well. There are multiple factors of vital safety and security practices that can help protect funds. Secure your wallet, it is best to find a wallet with security measures. Users should always have at least two digital wallets for trading/transactional purposes and used for storing savings. Additionally, make it a habit to use a password manager and strong passwords.

Being secured online is comes first in ourselves. We should first know what is the basic security online, like how we can easily identify some malicious online, for example identifying some phishing site or fraud online. Also, if you are worried about exchanges, there's a lot of exchanges already hacked so it's really hard to select a good one in terms of security. You can check this, to help you be secure online :
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indeed to be able to store assets that you have that are safer you can store them on hardware but when your assets don't have a large amount it doesn't really matter, you store them in a wallet like blockchain.info or on myetherwallet, don't ever store assets in place the exchange is too long because it's too risky.

As an investors you have to had two kinds of investments, one of short term which you can use to actively trade and one is for long term.
For long term, make sure you stored it securely, it's right that you invest on hard wallet to protect your coins, as major coins are surely supported in most hard wallets.

maybe use CMC (coinmarketcap) and from there find good trustworthy places to store your money i think it will be much better and also trade with place that have high to moderate voulmes those are places trusted by most traders and they usually handle large amount of money so usually they wouldnt mess around so much

CoinMarketCap?,
you have to read this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5124830.0
just for  reference https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5125712.0
we have to carefull about fake volume

You should store it on a cold wallet or hardware wallet if you have large volume but if you have small volume atleast below .1 btc amount, you can store it on exchange like binance then you should turn on the 2fa or sms aunthentication or any security practices that can help to protect funds to avoid phishing or hack your account

Keeping funds secured is the number steps to keep in mind when embarking on Cryptocurrency hunting and the rest have you. Now we have lots of ways. And everyone in the Crypto space has its own ideas to give out. On my own path I don't store my funds in an online wallet where I don't have the private key to and secondly I don't store my private keys and other key online. And another aspect of securing funds on an Exchanger or any platform you come across is to deeply make some research before dumping your funds in them.

Don’t put all your money /coins on exchanges, they can get hacked and you will lose your money. There are safe exchanges though, but I will still advise you not to put all your money into their hands. The only money that has to be on exchanges is the one you’re trading with, the rest should be in a very secured wallet, maybe an offline wallet or wallets like Trezor.

The first thing is to look for a nice and secure exchange I will suggest you Binance and Coinbase. And not all the exchanges are so prone to hacking. Binance and Coinbase are way too shielded against the hacking. Making use of a hardware wallet is another good step towards making wallet protected. Two factor authentications add extra addition to the security.

First of all, an intelligent crypto-user will never keep his coins in an exchange, no matter how secure or safe it is. Because in an exchange you don't have the control over the private keys to your coins. In case the exchange is hacked or attacked, you will lose the access to your coins. I would advice you to store your coins in a secure online wallet such as Blockchain.info, where you can control the private keys.

You should buy a ledger wallet/coldwallet to store your bitcoins in for future transactions.Or if you want go to top reputated cryptocurrency exchange out there like binance and many more.Just make sure to turn on 2FA for each account youll be creating

Indeed, today there are a lot of options on how to keep your money safe. The main thing is information literacy about your stay on the Internet. It is enough to listen to the advice on this topic and draw the right conclusions. The only important thing is that you never need to rush and fuss. Before each transaction, it is necessary to recheck everything qualitatively. And then your money will always be with you.

Hope you still finding crypto worth your time. An Exchange which I could recommend to use is binance but unfortunately not all coins are listed here so you will be forced to use decentralized exchanges and others.

First localbitcoins is not meant to be used as a wallet service and for the safety of your coins, use a wallet which gives you access to your private keys, something like a vanity wallet would be good or coinomi wallet is equally good

At the moment BINANCE is at the top, go for them :)

Currently binance is considered the safest to save your balance in a market exchange and don't forget also to set 2FA BUT it's not recommended that you save too long in exchange wallet. The binance CEO once made a warning tweet about this too, when cryptopia was hacked.

Right, the more sophisticated technology of course the method for hacking will be more varied, and that forces you to increase the security of your money in online. innovations will continue to be made to increase security such as the arrival of hardware wallet, 2fa or other thing. I'm sure in the future security will be far more sophisticated too

Never consider any exchange safe to store your funds even if it is more reputed because reputed exchange will be the target of hackers then only they can make huge money.Bisnce is best exchange for trading but not for storing just like any other crypto exchange.

The safest option is, of course, decentralized exchanges, but they are not yet clear for everyone to use, for example, Forkdelta, and I often use Binance, Bittrex, Idex, a fairly clear interface and a good trading volume

Yes, Keep holding them in the exchange has higher risk so it is good to transfer them to your own wallets which will help you to stay from thefts happening to the exchanges. Previously we have seen many scams who are holding the coins on the exchanges so it is always good to transfer your coins to the concerned wallets. Yes, if you have high holding then it is good to store them in hardware wallets.

That is right, You need to have your 2FA activated on the account you have on a certain exchange even if it is not Binance. This is important. In addition, you need to have strong passwords as well. I have seen people who have gotten their accounts hacked despite the 2FA activated. So having extra security is not a bad thing. Exchange does matter here. You are less prone towards hacks and attacks if you are on the best exchange because they have normally the best shielding system.

It is not about the reliability of the exchange, the safety is the main concern in this discussion. Although, it can not replace the hardware wallets in terms of safety, exchange can be used as a hot wallet for daily trading activities. Popular exchanges are not going to give back the stolen funds, I have seen so many broken promises.

Maybe security is the right reason to choose binance, because recently IDAX got the issue of IEO scam.
it's hard to believe in another exchange right now.
I think the same thing that security is an important factor for saving assets and trading.

 Actually keeping our funds secured must be a basic and first priority for every trader, most specially when we hold a lot of tokens. You don't know when is the best time to sell it, that's why you're responsible for its safety because you're future profit will be your liability.

The OP is from January.
Since then a lot of things has changed.
But i am still confused that OP is wondering for safe a wallet?
If yes,  then i can suggest you to try Blockchain wallet.
It has the best ever security possible. Every time you log in,  it requires an email confirmation.
And about the fees thing, it's pretty normal and depends on blocks.

Using your own wallet will always helps you to control the transactions. One more thing we have to remember is as long as if you don't share the private key with others you will be on safe hands. Yes, binance is one of the bext exchange for exchanging your tokens.

Right, even will need more time or maybe money to pay transaction fee, i think if OP save a lot of money, put a little amount to pay fee is better than save his money and he can't control it.

It is desirable to store your tokens on your own wallets of blockchain platforms with private keys, but if you are a trader, then you have to transfer them to exchanges, I recommend buying and selling cryptocurrencies on decentralized platforms with good volumes

With dapp`s, you don`t need to transfer your coins from your wallet to exchange and vice versa all the time, you have your coins in your wallet all the time. The only way to keep your funds safe is your wallet with private keys, everything else is risky, online wallet services can be shut down, exchanges can be hacked. Hardware wallet with private keys is the safest solution, people should learn about how to store coins before they get into cryptocurrencies.

If you got hacked it means you made the wrong move in it. Now in every exchange there is no assurance that you can prevent from hacker, that's a wrong mindset dude, because all exchange in crypto industry business whether decentralize or centralize are both risky once you get enter to their platform, so it is always We do it in our own risk.

If you do not trade often, it is better not to keep your funds on the exchange. It's unsafe. But if you are a trader, then you better choose a safe exchange. I would recommend you use a Binance.

If the question is about the security of funds that is in online or offline wallets, then it depends on if you are a trader. If you are a trader, you would like to keep your coins in the hot wallet over the exchange to be able to trade right away when the deal is in your interest. However, if you are HODLING for long, better go for a cold storage or hardware wallet.

Keeping our funds in any exchanges even it is a reputable one still not advisable cause we know what possibilities that might happen into them, it could be better if we keep it in our own controlled wallet. Anything about securities will always lie into our hands on how the way handle it. Even we use hard wallets still, not a guarantee that it will be safe at 100% knowing the fact that we can still be using the internet to do transactions. Only we should have to be careful and not to fall into phishing sites.

In the digital asset market, if you are an active trader, you have to take risks anyway,as there are no decentralized exchanges with large volumes for trading yet

That's the better way to deal with this business,if you are a heavy trader and always taking chances to place position inside exchange, you need to look for good exchange like binance or bittrex it whatever exchange you find yourself very comfortable to use and store your balance, but if you are not really dealing that much it's much safer to withdraw your coins out from exchange and send it to your hard wallet.

Just because you trade on decentralized exchange, doesn't mean you will not getting scammed. There were a lot of scam case in decentralized exchanges (IDEX, and ETHERDELTA). I would like prefer centralized exchange since they have much bigger volume than decentralized exchanges

You said that you currently keep crypto, right? May I ask you what crypto you are holding it now? Because, there are some altcoins you store it using MEW(myetherwallet), or you can keep it at the top exchange in the market just like Binance, Kucoin, Coinbene, and Okex, and Houbi just make sure you will submit KYC to each platform, so that your account or assets will not freeze by the exchange.

All I can say that if you want to keep and safe funds or crypto, nano ledger is one of the good and the best for this things mate.
Only things you need to buy em in online in amazon, but if you don't want to buy em you can use Mew known as myetherwallet for crypto
or cold wallet if you want to save bitcoin.

Hardware wallets and cold storage are enough if you want a high security  when storing your cryptos .  you did mention mew ? Mew is only an online wallet and online wallets dont stand a chance compare to hardware wallet and cold storage when it comes to security plus mew is also risky because mew is already been hacked before and it also prone to phishing attacks  .

Yes, nano ledger is another way to secure your coins because we are seeing many negative hacks about using low secured wallets. If you cannot able to buy, better store in MEW because we find more secure through this online web wallet.

indeed, you should not use Mew that has been hacked, of course hackers already have access to enter. I don't understand the device, now what I'm doing is providing additional security

It is very bad idea to transfer the coins to already hacked account. So try to create the new account always in order to secure your funds in a different way because we shouldn't keep all our eggs at one place, there might be huge chances to hack the accounts.

A newbie to cryptocurrencies should do this as a habit:

-Never trust an exchange to store your crypto.
-Use a crytpo wallet that uses private key to access and recover it.
-Always enable the 2 factor authenthication of your wallets and exchanges accounts.
-Make multiple backups of private key of your crypto wallet.
-Never give to anyone your private key.

You have so many options available to store your coins in. There are a number of companies who are in the business and they have introduced different kind of USB sticks that enable you to secure your funds. The devices have different capacity for storing the coins and are available at low price in the market. But you should do that only if you are not trading your coins.

Keeping your coins in exchanges is the worst thing to do. You never know when these exchanges go down. It has occurred quite frequently, starting with Mt Gox in 2014, to the recent hacks of Bitfinex and Cryptopia. Why do you want to keep your coins in exchanges, when free online wallets such as Blockchain.com are available? If you don't mind spending $100, then you can go for a hardware wallet as well.

If you can get a hardware wallet then go for it, storing your assets inside the exchange will always worry you for potential of losing your investment, always think before you go to any decisions in regards of securing your money inside this industry, remember that it's your money that you are securing.

Not so safe, 2FA is only a good security to prevent your wallet of getting hack, however if the site alone is hack, your assets are still in danger.
just like the recent report when Binance was hack, lots of user accounts are compromise but they got it covered with SAFU funds, what if no funds available next time?

I think you must keep your assets on hardware wallet or software wallet (on Windows / Linux / Android) , because exchanges are not safe anymore but not all exchanges.. just few of them. I said like this because I read article on few months ago , there was many exchanges got hacked like Coinbene , Cryptopia (and now closed) and also Binance , we know Binance is bigger exchange now than other but I read few month ago like 1-2 month ago Binance got hacked and user funds already replaced by Binance.

No to exchange if you like funds secured, the best choice is a hard wallet, you need to invest for this to protect your investment.
When you put in exchange, it could be hack or the exchange itself will be hack, and your money is gone. When you put it on your deskstop wallet, it's also risky as malware or phishing is what you enemy here.

All of the above is perfect and safe recommended ways to make our funds secure for trading needs. For my own preference I choose using metamask and save the seed phrase that I backed up in order to have an access by the time I wanted to transact all my holdings. It's simple and safe, you won't get rid of possible cyber attacks.

There is no need to exchange and store into hard wallets really is a guarantee for our property but perhaps we are worrying too much and this invisible pressure will create a lot of difficulties for us, especially when we are an investor or a trader, having no money in exchange will be a big problem, flexible capital is a necessary condition for us to use opportunities and optimization in this market, hard wallet will be a limitation. Although storing money in exchange can face many risks but that risk is only big for small and fraudulent exchanges while large exchanges will provide us with very high security.

Paper wallets. Generated offline.

I would recommend for anyone to have a seperate computer for your surfing activities. The first one is going to be only used for accessing your wallets and making transactions for bitcoins and altcoins. Then the second one is for anything you want to check out un the internet and you will not worry so much if you accidentally clicked on a malware that will ask for money so you can save your file or will steal all your information because it is not there.

that's good ways to prevent malware attacking our personal computer.sometimes we was not unconscious there are many virus or malware that could penetrate our computer system when we surfing in internet.just clicking any link and finally our balance gone.

Its not safe to keep your money in exchanges for a long time. Cold wallets are much safer. I will recommend trust wallet, Mycelium wallet and Blockchain wallet if you have Bitcoin. Most exchanges have been hacked before so the cold wallets are safer.

All exchanges are vulnerable to act so you need a wallet for your tokens. you definitely needs to get a wallet as soon as possible because attacks on exchanges are not expected. you might loose big when next they strike. there are nice wallets for every token you have. never use exchange for your saving.

What? I don`t understand nor comprehend what you trying to say. It is just a little bit confusing because there is contradiction with your statement. But what ever your point of view, I think it s better to store coins at the safe crypto wallet. It is better if you have a ledger. Binance is the top exchange in the whole world, but we cannot say it never suffered from hacks. In fact, it was intercepted yet the technician return the site again. In any form of exchange, it is hard to store coins because they are prone in hackings.

Correct, there's no assurance of security on your funds if you choose exchanges to handle it. More prone scenario now is hacking of accounts which resulted to lost of investors money. Those recommended wallets is more safe, and if you're holding more coins always use wallet with encrypted seed phrase like metamask.

Many people are typically used ledger and metamask im order to protect their coins. Storing cryptocurrency at exchange may be lose since many exchange are already intercepted by hackers. Unfortunately, all of the assets of investors and traders have gone. That is why we should not store in exchange because wallet is more secured.

If you are going to trade every day, it is better to choose the exchange Binance. It is safe and quite popular. But if you rarely trade, it is best to keep your funds in your wallet. Keep them on the stock exchange in this case is not safe.

Paper. Wallets.

Also a hot laptop, and a cold laptop.

The cold one never sees the internet.

Best store in personal wallet

To be sure with the crypts you always use for Google Authenticator exchange accesses for each access and always make copies of the private keys that are provided by the exchange when you create the Google Authenticator key

There are many ways to keep your funds secure. Of course 2FA is one way to do that. You should have a strong password that is not your name of your contact number of a mix of both. Having your funds on the best exchange can be guarantee of safety as well. In addition, you could also keep your fund in cold wallets that is not connected to any online source.

If you want to keep your fund safe and like it to put in the exchange, I suggest you to store it at the
exchange in which are always listed on top in the market. And for you to know where to find those good platform
it is better for you to check coinmarketcap site. And one of the good platform exchange is Kucoin.

Personally i used to trade on Monfex and can state that it's a very safe and reliable platform.Check it out guys

Indeed true ad correct, this CMC was already proven and tested too, and most of the majority communities here in the forum
trusted on this platform too. and you can see all the latest and updates in terms of the top coins and exchange happen in our daily lives
too. Or you can also try Mew, Ledger nano and other.

I also trade there and can state that it's very reliable and safe platform. I am really satisfied with because my data stays secured.

Yeah that's true. Google authenticator is one my favorite way to make my funds secured because even they know the password of ours but they can't open our funds if don't have code of 2fa. So we only need to secured the key of google authenticator to recover if the device that we putted a Google authenticator even it will lost it can still recover by the key.

Alternately using the Authy android application is my individual preference,   Google authenticator can go to the trash chain if you reset your phone remotely in case of a lost device. Securing the 2fa application keys can save a life, without backup keys it is hard to recover the access to the exchanges for spending funds. Instead of using Google authenticator you can choose the same secure method offered apps with second backup chance via this list:  LastPass, Yubico, Microsoft Authenticator,