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I've read people asking and posting how to protect their wallet but apart from educating yourself on how to protect your wallet, private keys and passwords, It's also very important that you protect yourself from exposing your portfolio you don't go around telling friends and random people, coins that you are keeping.
And also It's important to have other businesses or jobs and not rely on all your needs to Cryptocurrency, people will notice this and they will think you are making a fortune from Cryptocurrency and they might target you.

So are you protecting yourself and how do you protect yourself and your family?

Yes, we really need to protect ourselves. But it's not just in the real world but also on social media, let's not show off our trading profits, bounties and anywhere else. Let's not post this just to have likes on facebook and to be famous.
Because it can also cause you to be target by people who are interested in your money.

We must be silent earners, so that our lives will not be in danger.

I have a lot of altcoins and coins that are spread among a bunch of exchanges and several wallets, offline as well as online. I believe by doing this you can reduce the risks of losing money, because you are not holding everything on one wallet.

I don't really know why other people would like to show their portfolios to their friends, families, and others maybe because they are boastful that they wanted to get recognized that they are rich, but exposing your portfolio is dangerous because you might get hacked and steal all of your funds. Most people will do everything for money, that is why you should be wise in making decisions and don't carelessly exposed your portfolio, share your passwords, and your other information to protect your wallet and to avoid hackers.

To be honest I think you should only let your friends or whom you really trust to know about how you earn in crypto,
The more people who knows it the more it would be complicated just like one of my friends who are only earning through crypto but the people around them doesn't know a thing about crypto so they are suspecting that he is doing some illegal things online in order to sustain his living expenses.

So what can we say to these people who are posting their earnings from Cryptocurrency on Facebook, with all their locations and relatives exposed on social media, it's like inviting bad people from stalking them, I have a lot of friends on Facebook that post every cent they earned from trading and bounty campaign and they also post their family activity on social media, these people do not know the risk associated with this.

As what the saying goes, people can't ruin what they don't know. This is just so fit with this topic, privacy is of all things we need to consider and prioritize just like how blockchain is securing us and our transactions. We need to be cautious with who we trust be it inside the crypto space, like avoiding scams and malwares that could steal your data or outside the space where you interact with other people, be picky with whom you'll share what you're up to for you might be doing the right thing but is trusting and telling it all to the wrong person.

yes i agree with you, before trying to protect our asset, trying to protect yourself and family, and for me i'm prefer to live like i didn't know about the cryptocurrency so like you said people are don't care about you, moreover our asset.

of course protect our digital asset is important, but we can use feature from wallet/service we use to protect them is enough

Its always a wise idea no to stick with one wallet, have up to three or four wallets to avoid losing all funds, and you don't have to go around telling people you have many coins or tokens, this can turn you into a target for criminals or bad people

Identity is the most sought-after treasure that hackers and nefarious people chase, and oftentimes the big corporations and names are the ones responsible for leaking such, that's why we should always be wary on where we send our personal information and whatnot. Also, your point about telling people personally that you own cryptocurrencies is a plus knowing that extorting physically is far more effective, easier and faster than doing it online, and the numbers don't lie.

Protecting your wallet is a must, so does protecting yourself.

You are right and this is exactly what i have been telling my friends and i think that investment privacy is a very important thing especially in todays world where markets and economies are not doing well, we have heard many events of kidnapping of crypto investors for ransom so we need to be careful and not expose our assets publically.

People has a big ego they do not have anything then suddenly because of Cryptocurrency they are making huge money with less effort, and they want to show up to their friends online and offline, this is part of our personality and character that's hard to tame, until they find themselves in a difficult situation, people will learn in a hard way, that you don't go around showing off how much money are you making.

Most of the people are just like that, they wanted to share every information with other people on how much they are holding and how much they are earning which is not quite right. Earnings are part of privacy which we should keep to ourselves, it is not some sort of information to be spread out and tell your friends about it.

Let them wonder in what we're earning and doing, if they ask just tell them some details like how it works, how you can earn, the pros and cons but not to the point you show them portfolio, wallet holdings and etc that can give them reason to envy or do bad intentions to you, your family or hack your account. Its like think before you speak. Keeping private as they need to be as private personal lives should be not in social media, in Internet or someone we barely know.

It is true, aside from protecting your wallet, you should also learn how to protect your own welfare. Beware of who you are sharing your portfolio or earnings, sometimes this puts you in risk, not just you but also your family. A few years ago during the bull market, I had been earning decent money in cryptocurrency and had quit my job to focus on it, but when the bear market started, all the savings I had was used for my daily expenses since I was jobless and earning in crypto was difficult that time. The lesson I learned is that, even if crypto is profitable, you should secure your earning by having a full-time job. This way you can ensure that you will not have a hard time whenever the market is not profitable.

Those who work from home can't escape the fact that people will gossip about them even families and friends, many might even call them fraudsters, laziness etc but this is better than letting them know you are into crypto, i'm safe because where i am from people don't even understand what crypto is

When it comes to online security, make sure all the services you are using are not abusing your privacy information. No Facebook and Google's that often suppress information and will use your information to sell to advertisers for more targeted ads.

Get a VPN (I recommend Private Internet Access), use DuckDuckGo. Use a safer browser that doesn't track your information. Use an offline password storage device to keep your information safer. It's fairly easy to still be connected but safe online and these are some steps you can take.

As for your assets, just follow the basic rules of investment and always plan for the worst, and keep cutting down your payments to only the essentials and make sure to always have a healthy amount of savings and investments to protect yourself for the future.

Definitely. I hate it when people talk about their portfolios on public forums, because it exposes them to a much greater chance of getting hacked and scammers being able to specifically target them.

Besides, why give up your privacy when you have the option to keep it intact? I don't understand.

Share this information anonymously if you must. If some unscrupulous dude sees that you've got a hefty portfolio, and sees that you are of a low rank, you could easily be the target of a well orchestrated scam attempt.

I have so many tokens in my wallet and i earned them free, from airdrops and bounties but they are worthless, in combined they are not up to 200$ but still i don't keep them in a single wallet address, i split them up for safety but this kind of money won't bring any danger, even if i managed to become a target it won't worth it

as I've seen most of the people usually keep shut about their portfolio most of them that exposes their portfolio are using anonym persona in the internet or is an influencer that's trying to build a trading community within their own circles. I do agree with your thinking that we could keep shut on our portfolio so that person we can distance ourselves from people with ill intention, it's what I'm always doing ever since I was first introduced into cryptocurrency and the portfolio is only kept by myself. It's not like we could flex to other people about our portfolio anyway because they will have no idea.

Protect private key, account data for log in is very important but you have protect your website and your browser when access to bitcoin website, you have use correct website link when you log in to myetherwallet website, if you keep protect your private key but never use correct link your asset gone, bookmark in your browser with very important website for give safety to your account.

Silent earning is good but really those who become a target because of their coins aren't much, most common crypto problems comes from greed, wanting to double your bitcoin by all means possible will make you lose them, trading with no knowledge of trading, looking for money doubling schemes like bitcoin doublers etc, hacks are not that big this days like scams

Assets security only can be done bybour self.careless when we accessing portofolio and asset with make us easy to hacked.hacker has various way and technique to attack our wallet. Even best exchanges that have high level security could attacked and they loss customers balance. Dont depend to another people when protecting our assets, its be our own responsibility.

We must protect ourselves from it. Do not show off to the public about our income from trading and project promotion.
Maybe a small part if we show off would consider it as motivation because Crypto earns a lot of money. But the jealous person will always bother us and we must remain vigilant and protect ourselves.

It is true as you said, in storing our assets to be safe from those around us we should not be too open with the results we get from the world of cryptocurrency, especially our assets are quite large so it must be a target of people who are tempted by the results we get, but for hackers it is difficult to overcome them because they have special expertise in hacking our wallets.

Felt guilty about this. I do tell it about my friend but they are as well knowledgeable about cryptocurrency and on the other side making fortune out of it trading stuff though. We're just educaing one side or the other apart from this I do tell my family but they seemed uninterested knowing more than I could tell. I feel safe though but I am just can't hold my self back when something going in my mind specially with people whom I know doing stuff about crypto.

now a lot of airdrop emails provide links for you to visit, but it is very dangerous and you should never visit it,
your steps are good by storing your private key will be safe, but that step must also be followed carefully by visiting the wallet or exchange site,
because there are so many fake website

We are in cryptocurrency where privacy is more than a word or a concept but a way of life. Telling or bragging others about our cute cryptocurrency adventures and stories can indeed make us as possible target and we don't know when and where we can be able to meet someone who is adept in hacking or someone who knows and you can be referred as a possible victim. The world is full of people who are crazy enough to do unthinkable things. No one should think that he is so careful, as letting our guard an iota can led us to possible disasters. While there are online friends who are aware that I am into cryptocurrency, I made it a policy never to tell anyone how much coin I own and where is my online wallet located.

It is very true that in order to protect your funds, you need not only to securely store your private keys and seed phrases, but also not to disclose to outsiders what cryptocurrencies you bought and in what quantity. There may be a lot of envious people around you who can do you some meanness. It is better not to share information with outsiders that you have some savings and you are investing.

Some exchange didn't provide KYC so there's no way government can track them as well hardware wallets are keep anonymous. The only way they can track us if we transfer it in ou accounts that provide KYC. While its fine for government to know it , but better not to put all in a government registerd comapany all at the same time, maybe some span of years before accessing or cashing it out in our country if its too much money to avoid confusion from banks or area will you try to cash out your earnings in crypto, But if bitcoin or crypto is already popular in your country then it's ok to answer lot of question since we know were not doing illegal.

This is an important discussion in my opinion, not everyone is aware that the security of the assets we have is important.
Most people underestimate the issue of security in the wallet where we store the cryptocurrency we have. There are many
ways that we can protect the assets we have, one of which makes more than one wallet address. This is useful so that we
are not targeted by hackers, because one address is easy to trace. Following protect yourself, meaning You have protected
your assets. By way of a low profile, do not tell others that we have assets in cryptocurrency. Because human nature has
jealousy, it's usually the path to crime of theft.

yes i agree with you we must protect ourselves and our families from bad people. I have never posted my portfolio or income from cyrptocurrency on social media. and I also always keep my password and digital wallet key in a safe place and only my partner knows. and I also still have a professional job I do not rely on cryptocurrency as my main income.

This is food for thought for all, most especially for those who are fully dependent on crypto, without any other source of livelihood.
There have been several incidences of people being attacked in past. In fact, some lost their lives in the process.

We really should not share it in public, it should stay private to ourselves.
Posting and sharing anything regarding our cryptocurrency assets is not prohibited, but we should consider our own safety when it comes to our own assets.
We all know that an individual can become blind when it comes to money, they can do anything for money.
If it's unavoidable to share information with other people, just make sure that certain person is trusted and should be someone close to you.

Its simple, those who make good money from crypto will never go around saying it out loud or even sharing the experience on the internet, i believe that those who haven't earn anything from crypto but got lucky once are the ones doing the talking

I agree. Fewer people know that you work with cryptocurrencies, the better for you
And even if someone found out, always use an alibi that you were interested in before, but then burned out.
It is dangerous to create appearance that you have a lot of money.

Very true. And this is even more paramount on the internet. I have seen some threads here where people are asked about how their portfolio looks like, how many % of their portfolio is BTC and so on. And some actually respond. It is not advisable that anyone reveal such. Protection of your assets begins with you, and not where you keep them.

Telling random friends about you own coins is gonna be dangerous since people around the world already know how valuable BTC is. The moment they know, they can already take your phone and ask to withdraw your coins at gun point. Worse kidnapp your kids to be ransomed by you coins.

But most importantly, you also need to protect yourself from family as well. You don't know who among your close family relatives are wolves wearing sheep's clothing.

In every aspect of life, when it comes to money we must prioritize our privacy. Whether your assets was from cryptocurrency or on your own salary. Cryptocurrency assets are not created to let anyone know about it, it is a valuable asset which we also consider as an investment. Cryptocurrency is something that stays hidden. The fewer people who knows it, the better.

People should know more about computer security if they are holding huge amount of crypto

why be afraid to be known by the government? if the transaction is on a trusted exchange I don't think it will be a problem. and until now I think our transaction data has also been recorded by the exchange. everyone can track us, and we don't have to hide from the government.

It is very essential that we protect ourself from any possible risks that we may encounter on the way as we invest so that we can invest successfully in crypto. There are a lot of ways to protect our investment and also our family here in crypto. We should not be too shallow upon sharing our information here in crypto to anyone because it may harm us in a large scale. Make sure always that the person you are showing you portfolio with is a trustworthy one so that you won't have regret at the end.

I usually keep my self away from exposing my thing here in crypto. I hang out a lot with my friends asking where did I get my money from because we are all a students besides I do not have any outside jobs they knew, and I am not from a wealthy family that is why they are confused. As soon as they ask I usually answer that it came from my savings last few days or whatsoever. The only people who knew my thing here in crypto was my family itself other than that, there is no one else.

It's better to keep yourself and your crypto thing private. Otherwise, you will be noticeable and be in danger. Aside from being responsible in your portfolio and in your private keys and passwords, it will be more safe for you and your family to live privately away from the limelight of social media. In this way, you will be more confident and secured in earning more of your crypto thing.

of course I personally will always protect myself and not rely on random people investing. and do not forget to always renew every asset that has no further price development to be exchanged and replaced with better coins for investment.

Before focusing on cryptocurrency, I was an employee who worked every 8 hours a day, for five days a week. Initially, being a trader and bounty hunter was my side job until I decided to focus more on cryptocurrency because the percentage of income and energy and the time I used felt more effective.
With the income from cryptocurrency, as much as possible I can make my family happy by meeting their needs, I also try hard to raise capital to open an independent business. The plan is in the culinary field. Although it is very promising, cryptocurrency is full of unpredictability, so I need passive income in the real world if the cryptocurrency market is less profitable.
The point here is we have to prepare various plans to deal with the worst situations :)

Honestly this is so true, I had a friend who kept talking about his huge gains from trading in my group, and will never talk about his loss, just to show off his assets. His wallet was hacked, he said someone in the group shared him a keyboard app which he downloaded, and unfortunately maybe his private keys got compromised via clipboard. Let's learn to keep things that are meant to be personal that way, not telling the whole world how much crypto assets you posses to avoid issues.

In crypto, it is the same as money. So basically your portfolio means it is valuable stuff. So my analogy is "Never been trust with someone else even your own shadow". Even that person is too close at you there's a possibility that he will attract your assets. Better to keep silents and keep your coins in a safe place wallet. Just treat your assets protecting just like protecting your self.

it might be true to say the internet is a place to steal with little risk. maybe the thief switched his profession stealing work on the internet is very easy and minimal risk.  ???

so hackers are targeting us. portfolio is very important and must be maintained. One way that I do to secure personal data is to never upload on the internet, unless needed. for wallet problems, I used to keep it in a hardware wallet and I think it's safer.

Our friends on social networks already know almost everything about us. We constantly share information about where we relax and spend free time, publish photos from work and with friends, we even write the birthdays of our children! This is not entirely prudent, as we put ourselves and our family at risk. The same goes for our cryptocurrency earnings. I think we never mustn't forget about caution.

I don't tell my friends about my holding coins, but sometimes I tell them my earnings, they ask to treat them, that's it. I think people don't share their portfolio, but when you do bounties, your all information already showing in public, so, anyone can know your details except if you have a different wallet as a portfolio! I think the hardware wallet can good take care of you, nothing to worry if you own a hardware wallet and follow the instructions carefully. To me, I don't like to mix up my crypto life with my real life.

I keep the majority of my funds in cold wallets that are located in several locations so I don't lose everything if my house were to burn down or something of the sort, and nobody should know the PIN codes to my hardware wallets (Ledger, Trezor at the moment). I also generally try not to tell people that I own a large amount of my money in cryptocurrencies, not even to my closest friends. Most people only know that I've got money, though they're not sure where it's from; the only people that know that I own a significant amount of crypto is just my immediate family. I'd prefer that it stays like this.

I agree with the part where you said that one has to have other business or job aside cryptocurrency. This is so true. People should understand that cryptocurrency is an investment not a business except for people who day trade, and I must say, its not very easy nor stable.
About not telling people that you are holding Bitcoin, that kind of true though.
One has to be careful of certain friends but I don't think it will mean much telling an out stander who don't even know you.

I agree with you on this because by making known to others the worth of your portfolio you can be hacked by some bad friends who might be close to you. I remember some funds of mine got stolen sometime ago and i had this feeling someone close to me had access to my pc and made away with my funds.
In addition, it's also good to get a day job alongside crypto activities as this industry is still young and who knows can crush in sometime to come. The volatile crypto market also makes cashing out of crypto industry also hurts especially when the market dips like what is happening currently.

Well, this seems right. You don't know who is the good and bad around you even though that person expecting you as a friend. Never open topics about your portfolio should keep safe in a private place. Don't trust anyone except your self. Indeed, there are also some cases that even relatives will traitor to when it comes to stuff that has a value. Money is very hard to get now, those who have bad insight will think about that kind of crime. So, be careful at any time.

Protecting on self is not just about private keys, keeping your investment secret to your friends is another measure which everyone should imbibe. Most times friends can have access to our computers knowing our portfolio worth can fuel their quest to unravel our keys. Stay woke folks.

You can't just live as if you have gone extinct because of you want to keep a top secret, no matter what no man is an island you still will find away of letting people know what you do if not you would still look very suspicious.
Just simply protect you coins

As long as you have secured your wallet properly and have taken proper steps to ensure that nothing can go wrong, then it doesn't matter if you go around telling friends and random people about your coins. After all, it actually feels good to boast about your portfolio and it might also help get peoples interest into crypto currencies.
You don't need a job for hiding your crypto profits from people. You need a job to have a secure and stable source of income. You sound so paranoid.

That's correct. Telling everyone how much you earn on cryptocurrency is very stupid. I don't tell many relatives about it, let alone strangers. I don't want to put myself and my family at risk.

The answer is simple. Make crypto just your alternative income then don't tell to anyone if you are joining in this world. Sometimes,  not actively publish our assets (crypto, wealth, etc) can be a real happiness. Just be a simple person. That's how to secure our self and our family

Thank you for this and you are right you should protect your self for you and your family.
Also if you lost your self you are losing your crypto also. Business or having a job is one good thing to have in life to earn and also hide the fact that you are earning alot from cryptocurrency. Ill keep safe everything and everyone more than before...

I don't boast what's on my portfolio and stop posting on social media related to bitcoin/cryptocurrencies after hearing the news about those robbery. Personal robbery because the robbers know the actual guy and keeps on publishing on how successful he was with crypto.

I have other businesses and ventures that why I'm okay whether the market plunges because I have a long term holding. I'm protecting myself by remaining lowkey and being not boastful about it. I'm sharing some ideas and knowledge to the willing people but in a humble way.

i protect myself by following things :

1. i use trusted exchange to trade, yeah most of my asset is on exchange because i trade cryptocurrency.
i know and understand if placing coin in exchange is same as give it to exchange, but what may i do? centralized exchange isnt good as decentralized right now

2. i never expose my total asset to public, i think that looks like stupid thing that shouldnt do

3. i use antivirus and do safe internet browsing, just trust good source

thank you for your suggestions and opinions that you convey are very good and useful for us all and from what you say, I conclude that all security regarding asset security or related to crypto currencies is our own responsibility because there are no legal institutions that protect assets we are in crypto currency

To protect our assets, we really need to do that.  we don't need to expose what we have publicly.  Do not tell too many stories about what we do with the World of Cryptocurrency, it is very necessary for us to maintain our identity.  So that we are protected from people who are not responsible.  Because no one will help us to protect ourselves, our families and our assets unless we ourselves do it.

That's  true some people is more  confident to show their portfolio to others to show them the proof that have a good earnings but didn't notice that this kind of attitude will bring to them in harmful way. Much better to keep your portfolio private and don't show to any one especially in social media because you don't know some of them frauders. Be more vigilant and be more private to anything about your crypto earnings, wallet and etc...

Its a must to protect ourselves against people who might put us in danger, never trust easily even if its someone you know.

Its fine to spread awareness about crypto and teach others how to earn but dont expose your own earnings especially your private keys.

Yes, because it is very important to protect our asset so it won't gone or lost.
The first thing to protect our coins is by using a reliable wallet to store our coins.
It is very recommended to use hard wallet so our coins won't be lose easily.

yes there are so many ways people to commit crimes including social engineering even our closest friends might try to seize our assets by all means, therefore we must take good care of our assets in order to avoid bad things.

You are wrong, still you are connected to the internet, connected to the world and this is the point where everything could be abused. Even you have hardware wallet, there is a chance that hacker will change the copied address to his one. Be careful and do not trust anything.  :)

I am seriously considering buying a safe for my hardware wallet, mostly as a decent protection from the fire if anything goes haywire, but I am aware that the proper bank safe would be the best option. So this is in a way an upgrade from only owning a hardware wallet and keeping it hidden somewhere.

I say I am unemployed to protect myself so the best way to protect myself is that nobody knows what I do. Only one of my friends knows about it, but he is the person I can trust if I die. Based on my life experience I can say that the more people know something, the more problems you have in life. Even in systems like crypto, we need to follow this rule more stringently.

I also have a lot of friends who does this on social media, it's ok if they do not show their face only their income but showing your face holding your proof of income is not good, people will envy you and find you boastful and they might even target you, we don't know if their area has bad elements or bad people and they might target them.

The reference point here is security, which is very essential. The reason it is quite difficult to guarantee 100% security, is because it is online and we are online. So users need to be conscious of the fact that anything can happen and should always be at alert.

This is definitely true. We are the ones who are responsible for our assets. We should know how to keep it safe and secure and we shouldn't put it at risk by exposing everything online and even with our friends. It's fine to share an idea about the coins that we're holding only with our trusted friends but we should keep our private keys and wallets safe at the same time. We have to be mindful and careful all the time and keep things in private.

We tend to forget self protection every effort of safety has been made solely on wallet not lives. We should keep ourselves and family inclusive anonymous in this sphere, people can hurt others down due to their possessions in cryptocurrency. Life safety is key to our efforts here.

Yes, I think most investors always protect themselves and protect their investment assets. the way that I use to protect the cryptoqurrency assets that I have by swapping portfolios, I mean to renew coins that do not have development or replace them with better coins.

I think you're wrong. Now a lot of people doing blogging and show their crypto income and they are doing well. Public people now make very good money in this market. Tone Vays. everyone knows that he is a fan of bitcoin and I'm sure he has a lot of bitcoin, but no one hunts him

yes you are right OP we don't need to post our portfolio or assets on social media. because if we post our assets on social media will trigger people who have envy towards us to commit crimes on us. and to protect our wallets from hackers we should have several digital wallets or store them in a hardware wallet I think it will be safer.

Honestly I really don't tell other people about my detailed portfolio and how much I earn in crypto, makes me uncomfortable to start a topic about it unless for educational purpose. So far in 3 years I think I'm doing well, I learned to be very careful in everthing I do specially that I'm doing my financial routine daily. 

I have never really told the people I know about the source of my income, especially on social medias.
Aside from how we kept our wallet and the likes, cryptocurrencies aint my main job. It's like a side job, I do have a day to day job for a living.
You know, we couldnt really count on how markets doing. Even my family, what they know is that I make a litle extra money from internet, that's all.
I tried to keep it as little info as I could.

Protecting data or coins on the internet may be arguably difficult as well as simple. You could say it's simple because as long as we always check the security tab in our browser and don't visit suspicious websites, I think our data will be safe. You could say it's difficult if we are not able to control our curiosity in clicking or visiting a website

if you put just the names of the coins in your portfolio then no one can do anything to you. what's the difference what coins do you have in your portfolio? just don’t post on the net the amount of these coins

It will not hurt to invest on anti-malware software to protect your PC well. Also, be wise in choosing anti-malware software because there have been reports about fraudulent softwares that supposedly protect you but instead, are the ones that will try to hack your computer. Secure your passwords well and avoid making same passwords. Offline wallets are also good if your prefer a long term of keeping the coin.

It's okay to tell your friends if your friends are still into cryptocurrency. I mean, you can trust your friends because both of you are into the same thing. In that way you can help each other but not to the point you have to give each others personal account. You still have to secure your accounts and password and all important and confidential details to protect your funds.

I do not think that in cryptocurrency you can trust anyone. if your friends will steal your crypto you can never prove it. they will simply create a new wallet and withdraw your money to it

You have a very good point. In the first place security is on your hand. If you will make all your transactions and privated information personal you don't have any problem. If possible you must keep all your password or private keys on your self and away from others even to your bestfriend or even in your family members to avoid opportunity to other people or scammer to know and to have a chance to steal your coin or account.

First and foremost there are people who are already make the cryptocurrency as their job so you don't need to mention on having a job or other business for them to earn because they are making already crypto to rely on. We must really protect our wallets and assets especially our private keys and our passwords because there are a lot of people who are trying to steak and get your wallets, so you must not expose your folio even to your friends and other people who you really dont know.

What if something unexpected happened like illness and so on?  It's important that someone can be trusted to provide information about assets such as passwords, wallet info and more.

very precise that you submit because until now there is no institution or legal force that can protect our crypto currency assets because we ourselves can maintain the security of our assets avoid surfing with sites that we don't know about and store all privacy codes and we can find out basically the security of assets that we have is our responsibility

It is very bad if really friends seem so bad.  But life always provides surprises, both good and bad.  To avoid the temptation for loved ones and disappointment in people for yourself, it is better to keep your assets away from your friends.

Most of cryptocurrency transactions are anonymous for a reason. It is to keep the trader's identity safe from seeking hackers and pishing hunters. If you are not participating in a crypto advertisement and you could keep your identity and main accounts secrer, there is no need for you to flex your profile. There are already a lot of bad people in this industry and since we have no one real regulation for them, taking care of your own self is vital to survive.

Logically right, especially if your friend/friends knew about crypto, how can you prove something to the person who knows how to hide and how things works? There's no chance to you to recover your assets / coins if they already transfer everything from another wallet without your knowledge. Trusting your crypto most of the time is a hard decision to make most if when you already have a huge value of assets.

The moment you give out your KYC to any company ever you are literally giving up your own security. People do not realize this but when you register to a Chinese exchange that has your KYC they are actually very free with it, they both share it with their government ( a must and a law) and they actually sell it to highest bidder as well.

Someone, I know actually got all of my information as a joke, I wasn't afraid him getting it because he knows me anyway but the fact stands that they didn't know this about us and shared all my info with him, my ID, my pictures, my balance, my trades, my withdrawals, name it and he got it. That is why protecting yourself is a lot more important than protecting your assets, I would rather lose all my balance there to a hack then get all my real info.

Now all we have to protect is ourselves not for the hacker and the scammers. We protect ourselves in real life, And what you counsel is right. I have watched a lot of news on television, in newspaper and on social media and almost everything I see on television is criminal whose motive is theft.

First, I don’t see any reason why people will even be going about sharing their password to the public out there, it is meant to be a private key and password as the name implies and I think that people are wiser than that, but the key thing that we need to learn to protect ourselves away from are hackers who would use every dark method to get into our account to steal our coins, and I think these are the people that is the most dangerous person to us.

I have been protecting my own wallet by making use of hard wallet, with hard wallet, it will be impossible for hacker to really hack into it since I am not always online and my keys are kept in a private room where no one would even be able to get into.

It is our duty to keep ourselves safe from all sort of frauds but still people fail to. Easy to say, difficult to do. You can only stay safe if you have some good knowledge. We all know that there are scams in digital market, still people invest in new coins and do not go for bitcoin or altcoin and end up losing all money. The reason behind is their little understanding and greed to get more with less.

Honestly been a silent earner is safe but i actually praise those who tell people how much they make from bounties, its kinda movitation to me not to quick as well as others too

yes I agree with you op I just make cryptocurrency as my additional work. because the crypto market is very flutuative unreliable so I have a real job as a teacher. and I have never told anyone about the coins that I hold or the benefits I get from working with crypto will cause social jealousy. and I also keep some of my coins in a different wallet so it doesn't get hacked easily. and I also installed f2a in my wallet so that it would be safer.

There are many arrogant people that I keep saying, they keep saying that they know everything and they have a lot.of coins. But I think they are only lying and they do not know how they will protect their assets. Protecting it is not easy and that's why we need to habe right knowledge that ww can get from studying, researching and listening to other people who are smarter than us.

Yes it is true that protecting ourselves and the assets we have is not only limited to storing private keys and passwords. We also shouldn't spit our portfolios and share them with others, because that can just cause jealousy and other people can do unexpected things later. Providing advice and opinions about some coins that we think is good is not wrong but to share the portfolio and also the coins that we have I think it is risky and it's good not to show it to others.

as you say. the key to self-security is to remain low profile. not showing something fancy to yourself, so as not to make others ask about what I produce. The first time I got to know Bitcoin was very proud, and often showed off on social media. but over time, I think this will only make me a target of crime. so after that I no longer show off. and I continue to educate my family so that it is low profile even though it has a lot of assets (in crypto or in reality) this is one of self and family protection

Well, yeah, like we're not gonna show off how much profit you earned from crpytocurrency.

This is a good advice indeed, one can easily become a target to criminals if people know your worth, crypto things have to be secret in the first place, in my country people get kidnapped and kidnappers are asking for bitcoin to release victim, imagine that

right, giving our portfolio of assets to others will cause jealousy so that it can damage their psychology. they can become greedy if they are psychologically unstable because they see our portfolio better. of course such boundaries must be maintained so as not to backfire for them

You don't go around telling people how much you've make from crypto that is insane, at the same time its better to give out positive vibes unto those who haven't find their way around in crypto space

With the current condition of the crypto market, in my opinion it is difficult to live only from crypto. I make crypto a side job because I invest crypto for a certain amount of time that can be done in my spare time

I think the lots of option to do to protect yourself like keep private key on paper rather on phone, try to find best play to store your assets, only talk about what you invest to people who can trust... Anyway, i think each people should have their own way, no one can be same as anyone.  8)

You have shared an important information for all of us. There are many newbies who do not have any idea about what to do with their wallet address or private key. In some cases I have noticed that they have given private key address instead of wallet address while joining bounty campaign. So newbies should be educated about these things.

specifically for crypto, I keep it to myself and protect myself without anyone knowing, even my family doesn't know. because what I believe is that someday there will be a point where I will sell all of them and divert funds or assets from crypto to real business. that is my short and long term plan. so there is a balance between crypto and the real world, not 100% focused on crypto alone.

Yes it is really a must to protect yourself from anyone you really don't trust or know. I guess it will be very safe if we stay anonymous to those who really don't have personal connection. It is good to encourage everyone and teach them how we gain profit from Cryptocurrency but we should be very vigilant from people who wanted to deceive people.

I am always urging successful traders to share their tips and strategies with newbies so that they can learn from their experiences. We need to help them in order to increase users of crypto currencies because the more users we have, the more investment we have in the market which is ultimately great for all of us. Being the veterans of this market, old traders have a moral responsibility of guiding them.

Being private can make our life simpler, even me, I don't speculate to everyone how much I am earning, how much is my profit for my today's trading unless to my wife, I am sharing it to her. I don't need to tell people how blessed I am then sending screenshot of how you earned in social media. Also, I am making sure, me and my wife knows the credentials of each other.

Who do you mean? Is it in the crypto industry or in your home environment? if in the crypto room of course scamers always target people who have large amounts of assets, whereas if in the surrounding environment I don't care about that. I mean if people hate you, because you don't have a permanent job in the real world but can make thousands of dollars, it's better to ignore their words. You must be more enthusiastic and prove that you are a millionaire without leaving home.

Yes, it is true. myself I don't tell my friends or relatives about crypto only my family knows because people will come closer if I have money so I better not tell them only friends that I trust and also to protect assets I always be careful when accessing my wallet or provide additional security like google authenticator

maybe because of the hype that is too happy to tell success with high profits so that a lot of history of privacy assets that ultimately affect other people's thoughts negatively and excessively. In the end everything came back in one understanding that this was actually dangerous despite the initial intentions being very good, the average person like this was because he had new experiences, but in his development he turned specifically into a person who was really quiet in addressing communication about assets transparently.

I sincerely do agree with your position. The truth is that we're responsible for exposing ourselves to hoodlums. It would be difficult to get robbed without any concrete plans and information from persons who know you very well and in some situations, you may even know them. We need to be careful about how we discuss our cryptocurrency assets with others.

I totally agree. You must be the only one to know your assets and the access to your wallets to better keep your cryptocurrencies safe and sound and also to keep all the informations about it private. It is a nice experience to be working on cryptocurrency but it will still be the best if you will only the one to know your progress to avoid envy because it will just start commotion and competition that may lead to serious related crimes. You must be able to control the information that will come out from your mouth because it is the first base of protecting your assets. Having another job apart from earning cryptocurrency is also a great thing to do to avoid reliance on it and also to keep yourself earning apart from what you can attain from crypto. In this way you can double your earning from two different sources of income and at the same time, you can always have a back up source when the one have failed to generate what you need in a specific time that you need it.

The first and most important thing is to know how to play safe when it comes to your investments. So protecting your wallets and assets is the most important thing to do 

Yeah, people who show off do create themselves into a target. Many scammers look for such people. Rather be clever and earn in silence. There is no need to let others know what you are doing and this is why I like crypto so much. No one needs to know what you doing or who is paying you. It is much much more private the fiat will ever be and that makes me feel much safer. If you rich better pretend you broke ^^

Yes we are the one who is responsible for everthing that happen to us, maybe when first time we can blame others for what happen , but when it happen again and again the problem is in ours. We should secure pur belongings crypto is money, there are a lot of greedy everyone, we should take care and be careful to whom would we are talking with.

Wise scammers know the best ways how to trick the people to their scam projects. That's why many investors fail to resist the scam projects and frauds, the education doesn't always help, unfortunately. The fight between the good side which wants to teach the several aspects of crypto investing and the bad side which turns out scam will be in the online platforms, we need to chive the minimum results, in my opinion.

Yup you're right about that, but some people don't know this, rather they like to show off that they own cryptocurrencies without minding the risks that are involved in doing such a thing. I always keep it a secret, I didn't go around telling my colleagues and friends that I own cryptocurrency, it's something between me and my family and they don't tell outsiders as well.

If I see people discussing cryptocurrency I do join their discussion, but not in a way that makes them feel I'm into it and I own a lot of money in it. I just tell them what they need to know and then shut up. I have had someone question me on how much I have invested in cryptocurrency but I keep telling them none. Investing in cryptocurrency should be a matter of choice, I am not going to motivate anyone myself if they want to do it, they should go ahead, it's their business.

I would agree with the OP. It is very important not to reveal the details regarding your cryptocurrency holdings. This includes the amount of crypto that you hold in your wallets, the details of the wallet that you are using and the exchanges that you use to trade your coins. Recently there was an incident in the Netherlands, where a cryptocurrency trader was abducted and then tortured to reveal the private keys to his cryptocurrency wallets.

in a decentralized system of digital money you need to get used to other methods of protection, there is no one but yourself who is better secure your bitcoin or ether wallet by hiding your private key in a safe place.

We can't easily trust anyone these days even those people we consider as friend because once being greedy strikes them then they will take advantage of those information you gave them to get the benefits they wanted from you. Of course they will see it as an opportunity to get closer to you to get enough details to deceive you and that is the reason why we have to be attentive and cautious every time, so we can secure our funds not only our funds but ourselves as well because we don't know people's true intention particularly these days that everything is possible when it comes to money. We have to think before we speak so we'll not end up feeling remorse because sometimes we are also the reason why we are suffering.

This is very true because if we show off to friends and on social media because we have a lot of assets, I think that is a stupid thing. And to keep away from my family, don't do it because family is the best trust for me

In the online world protecting ourselved is really important to us because if we protect it it will include that our assets here in our wallet will be safe from the hacker. Safety will come first by our own. Hacker will be everywhere and anytime they attach us so better to secure all information you have by ignoring unknown people and don't click any link that's not legit maybe once they click is the end for us.

To grow your assets you should first protect it. Successful traders and investors protect their assets and funds first before they multiply it. Proper risk management can help us to protect our assets and funds. Diversify your funds where you will not put all of your eggs in one basket. Put your funds in few investment and it can help you to protect and manage to grow your funds.

it's hard to know someone's intentions, looks good outside but they sometimes take advantage of our kindness. that's the thing that often happens nowadays. I think the closest person is our family, so the assets we have can be used for family welfare, rather than giving to close friends for example

If it is a large amount of cryptocurrency you're holding then its essential to have a hardware wallet to manage it yourself, or the other option is you could setup an account with an exchange that has a custody service that keeps their funds insured against hacks such as Coinbase and store if safely that way

Great question! For me, I have stopped talking about Cryptocurrency on my primary Social Account because it can make some people pay attention to my salary and my job. Btw, in my country, Cryptocurrency is still not legal, but there is also has no rule for crypto. The only rule related to crypto is "No one can use crypto for trading goods.".

Finally, use Bitcointalk, Telegram, for talking with my friends about cryptocurrency, hold crypto in the hardware wallet are the ways I'm using to protect my family.

Its fine to talk about your coins and earnings if that person is part of your family but when it comes to other people showing your assets are not really wise because they might think you're earning huge and envy you.

Im keeping my assets in a hardware wallet, and making sure my account in exchange is high security enabled. I dont expose my coins to someone I didnt know to keep my privacy.

Better chance of keeping your assets and your own self to be safe while inside this industry. We don't kno hat inside the minds of those people we call our friends mostly if we talked about money many people are greedy to the point that it's also possible this people can harmed us just to takeaway our assets.

Keeping your assets/money in a much safer and secured places should be  a must while doing your business.

You are absolutely right. We shouldn't tell anyone about our portfolio or any personal thing related to money! I learned it well, for one of my friend's mistake now I have a red tag! It's because I logged in on his smartphone and he did a huge mistake. So, any good friend can harm your money or hardware wallet, private keys badly! After finishing my studies, I will go for a job and crypto will be my part-time partner, and I will never share a single info about money or crypto with my friends!

If you hesitate while thinking about your privacy efficiency you would better take additional actions without waiting for the practical approval of these thoughts ;)
Do everything very carefully, don't think that you are the one who will not face these problems :)

maybe someone's level of privacy will be different in each person, there are those who have the very nature of privacy and there are open so depending on the people themselves. the best is maintaining privacy and the most important thing is that data storage must be very privacy

Yeah, we should protect our investment from scamming and hacking as technology has become so fast now so we should make sure no one makes us scam and takes out profit by hacking our coins. There are people who will say sweet words and will deceive you so better stay away and not to trust anyone easily just stay aware and make research.

that's true the data storage must use a very high encryption to keep the privacy as it will contain a lot of sensitive datas.
But just try to make sure if we are always using reliable service to keep us away from the scammers and phishing sites. So many scammers these days make us must take a high protection to our asset.

Right, the safest protection is to hide our private keys in a proper place, because there is no one we can trust in this world besides ourselves, so be careful about keeping your private keys in your wallet.

Just don't  believe anyone on the internet even it's the closest one because you don't know what would they think from someone you don't know physically and what's inside their mind so just be careful with everyone on the internet. It would be better to work solo on the internet and earn something decent rather than work out as a team
 

Actually, my private keys, passwords and even passphrase are somehow in a safe place I think. And regarding with the people who knows what I am doings is just my family and my friends. Those friends of mine are also part of the community, in fact they are the one who encourage me to enter this field so I have nothing to hide from them. It better indeed to have other source of income because first of all you can't rely on crypto all the time. I think much better if you will not publicize your attachment from crypto just to be safe.

Protect yourself and your family by making your business and the profits that you got from among your privacy, do not publish screenshots of the profits or the money that is inside your wallets on your personal accounts on the social media sites because you are easy to target by hackers and scammers, do not publish personal information about you, like your personal information, email, photo, passport, etc make this information private and not public, Do not trust email messages or someone who wants to help you increase your profits by registering on his website and investing in it.

It depends on them on how they manage theirselves on holding and showing their privacy. I think they can also showing some money to encourage people from the crypto. Before take or earn a lot of money they should know on how to protect on it of course because a money was very important nowadays.

Protecting ourself is one of important part in cryptocurrency. Bcz it is decentralized, if we lost our private key, no one can help us to recover our wallet
 That's if we use wallet to save our token/coin. But it would be different if we use centralized exchange, changing password is still possible. But CEX is more risky, so use password as good as you can

Yes indeed. It's better to be quiet or not talk much about what you get in cryptocurrency because sometimes when we make a big profit from cryptocurrency we start to become arrogant and show off what we have gotten and that is something that can lure people to do something bad thing. So it is better not to spit out what we have or what we do in cryptocurrency, it is better to play smart and let others judge us to get a loss but in fact they are misjudging us.

actually giving people passwords, private keys, and other important things on the internet is what makes a lot of people exposed to theft.  besides that many phishing sites that need attention to avoid theft and fraud.  however, don't give more trust to people on the internet, and store your private keys in a safe place.  that's the way I use to protect my assets.

Some people want to look rich with the income they get, they think showing off a portfolio on a social media account will make them great, but if we look at it from a different angle, they have paved the way for others who are interested in the money they have.
We must be quiet and always be humble, so those persons who want to do evil can't measure how many assets we have.

It is easy to protect my family - they dont use cryptocurrencies  :D.

And about my protection, at first you need to have virus-free computer and wallets that are encrypted with passwords, do not copy paste your private keys.  ;)

This is something that I learned long time ago, it is easy to think that everyone out there is honest and that you can share whatever information you want with them but that is not really accurate, if you tell people that you are holding some cryptocurrencies if they know anything about this market they may think that you have a lot more money than what you are really holding and that can be a very dangerous position in which to find yourself in, this is especially true in my country in which criminals can get away with anything.

I always be attempts to protect myself and my family as much as i can especially for my cypto assets i think this is important because crypto assets became one of my wealth and it can be used for the future and i think one of the ways to protects my assets besides keep it secure in my PC is i was never share informations to other people about how much crypto do i have because for me if someone know my crypto value then it can tempting people to hack my wallets

I used to spend a lot of money to invest in cryptocurrencies, and the market gradually went down and I lost a lot. I think investing in cryptocurrencies should be treated separately from normal work and life. Don't invest in cryptocurrencies with tight living funds. This is the best protection for family members.

Yes posting our crypto earnings to be famous and have many like are not good as they think because they attracting criminal to rob thier money. So don't post our earning to protect our hard earned money and not risk our family life on this.

In order to project your coins/assets you must double your precautionary measures specially using your informations like email, passwords and other important information that may link to your assets privacy. Make sure to note down, make back ups of important privatekeys, passwords, etc and put it where no one will be be able to find it except from you.

This is a real issue to consider.
You can lose money is different ways if you are being careless. Keep backups of everything and let the closest to yours know about where and how much you hold but don't boast about it in public or online. Don't keep everything you have on one place, not only losing, you may also suffer if you can't use it for whatever reasons when you absolutely need it.

hey friend, this is a crypto asset. from the wallet that you use to store assets, anyone can see. to secure your assets you must double security. I don't like to keep my money in exchange except for assets that I use to trade every day. for investment assets I use a personal wallet that I can only access.

You must be very passionate and spend a lot of your time working on electronic money. I think you should focus more on protecting yourself and your assets, because investing is not necessarily the best way that protection can be best for you.

There are many dangers that always lurk you and your money. Always be vigilant and spend a lot of effort and time to make sure you and your money are safe. Please private key and password, do not reveal your identity when investing. ;)

with use as preference of medium on connecting into the field of internet world of the webpage and application, investors to define with one as least to gives with maximum security to avoid of risks as being hacked. i was a hacker when was younger and now still working with the plan on hacking as a hobby on extensive entrance with the desktop of internet.

I am paying close attention to finding ways to protect myself and my family. I was afraid that bad guys or bad things would come to me and my family. so I advise you to be careful too.

actually for this problem depends on the holder as well, when he shows the funds he has but he can maintain the security of the wallet then it is not a big problem as well, maybe the assumption that people will target our funds must be there. but if security is certain, then I think the problem of losing assets is very small.

I think the best way to protect if want hold crypto coins is to get a hardware wallet for coins that have support in, but for other coins who not have wallet integrated on hardware wallet the best way is to download and save wallet and keys on a pc that not stay online 24 hours and is only used for wallets and not other things and also when login to exchanges always check if the url is the correct one and not get on some pishing website.

It is important that businesses or other jobs and not depend on all your needs for Cryptocurrency. Always pay attention to your money and your own safety.

this is the same as exchanges/wallets and other big guys got hacked because they are known to have huge funds but smaller guys that are not popular are less prone to hacking  . you are correct with what you said op  .

as much we want safety we must start it doing on our own little ways   .  this why im not braging on the people that i know mostly online but i only brag inside the house with my parents because they are also aware of my crypto business

I protect everything, both cryoptoqurrency that I have and also my family. and anyone else will do the same. but speaking of cryptoqurrency assets, I personally have kept my wallet password very safe and no one will know unless I discuss it with my family.

Protecting your assets and your identity is the most thing everybody should do because once your assets get hacked you have nothing anymore and once you have other thing doing you could pick yourself back. So having something doing and protecting ones wallet shouldn't be underrated. Should be a priority and serious one.

One way you can protect yourself and your family is never to mention the worth of your portfolio online,because you never can tell who is at your target. Even when you earn in bounties or trading try keeping the profit on a low. Also avoid clicking on phishing sites too to stay safe.

It seems to me that the presence of certain coins in the wallet does not affect the vulnerability.But what you don’t need to talk about your activities is a fact. But on the other hand, it’s hard not to tell your friends about your activities. We are not recluses and scammers to be afraid of something.It seems to me the main thing is to keep your private key in a safe place.

I'm just telling freelance work to just a few people including family because I know if I tell about this job they will find out and keep asking how to get money from work like you. And that is one way to protect myself.

conditions like yours are indeed necessary, because we don't know whether they intend evil or not. if the people closest then I think we can still tell our original work while people who are only limited to just know it then just tell us our work as freelancers. plus it's quite difficult to explain to some people in full our work, of course they think it makes no sense

I protect the assets that I have by using Google Authenticator, besides that with a complicated password. then I don't visit the website randomly and paste my private key.

I am not giving away my information as long as I can. Also, I always check the wallet if it is secured and has some feature where in you can input a double authenticator there. Having a double authenticator is very important for you to be notified when someone has logged in to your account. If it is not you, you can just lock your account. Simple as that.

Or to make it in a better and safer way, you just buy a hardware wallet where you can store your cryptocurrencies as long as you want without worrying any about the information thing and any attacks to stole your money. Investing in security is the first thing to do especially when you are dealing with finances because that is your greatest defense.

It is important to always check the address of the website you are visiting so as not to get to the phishing site. google authenticator also can be hacked if you use it on the same phone that is always connected to the internet. this is very good protection, but there are already been many cases of breaking into this protection

If you want to make a long-term investment, it makes sense for you to purchase a hardware wallet. It is not logical to deal with large investments in Exchange. You are struggling under very difficult conditions and you make money.

Protect yourself when exposing your portfolio? then you must be vigilant before clicking on the link, because now there are many pishing links that can make you or anyone stuck in it, in the real world of course you do not need to tell anyone about your wallet key except only the family that you trust.

While many think that the best way to protect your coins is by employing all kind of security systems protecting your coins one of the best methods that you can use is to simply deceive everyone and never reveal that you are holding any amount of cryptocurrencies, even better if you can never reveal that you know anything about this market or that you visit this forum in a frequent basis, that way no one is going to target you to begin with since they will not know that you are holding any crypto.

Blockchain transactions themselves are quite anonymous, subject to at least the basic set of anonymous work on the Internet. If you store BTC in a cold wallet on an encrypted disk, then we are safe from hacking, if we do not tell everyone we meet that we have a lot of BTC then this is another plus for anonymity and confidentiality.

Very little fool people are surrounding in this cryptocurrency whom visit phishing site and lost money. Although scammer don't target any random people until realized whale investor. Scammer just open scam website or exchange where fool people get caught easily.

One of the best thing in crypto and to take note of is to always protect ones assets and ones identity. Hackers are rampant now and the best thing is to always protect whatever one has. Insecurity is a problem and i will also like to urge everyone not to expose themselves in social media

Yeah, you're absolutely right, we should protect ourself and our assets. I am trying not to share any information about my investments even with my friends. And I also keep the coins/tokens which i hold for investment in more than one wallet, even though my portfolio is not big.

protecting my crypto assets (even any real assets), is my own responsibility. actually it's simple, by keeping a good eye on my personal wallet key (I always use a special computer to access this) and not sharing personal data with others, I think that's enough. and to protect ourselves from any crime, never expose anything related to our crypto assets to the public, especially through social media, this is tantamount to bringing us closer to those who mean evil to us.

As an account owner you must be careful because you are the ones who is responsible when it comes to the safety of your account. As an old member here I have encountered a lot of times when my account was hacked. I am so devastated on that time because my account was hacked and all of my money was gone. And from that time since that incident was happened I always ensure the safety of my account.

share asset information with your friends in my opinion is not a problem, as long as you do not expose it as a whole I mean not in detail how much total and value of assets that you have. so your assets will still be protected (I think so).
and that's good, I also keep my assets in more than 1 wallet, this is the best way.

jealousy has a greater impact than the possibility of crime, I began to realize this since two years ago because I finally changed some of my asset management views for the worse because communication with them only applies to short-term goals without preparing for more serious deterrence. I want to forget it and start thinking about more positive things in protective measures through personal attitude first.

Which stupid investor would say that? I mean, tell people about your main assets to random people. I don't think anyone would do that, unless you tell one of your family, it's OK, at least like writing your will, to your family. but not with people you don't know.

I would rather not even tell to my family how much cryptocurrency I have, because anything can happen in life and you never know how even your family members can behave. there have already been many cases when family members stole from their loved ones and this can also happen to you. that is why it is best that only you know about your money

Ome of the most beautiful things I admire about cryptocurrency is the fact that you can be running it and nobody will know you are doing anything, yet, you will be earning alot. So, I see no reason why anyone should now take it upon themselves to start announcing things that are supposed to be private. Everyone should take caution as one can even fall into the hands of hackers.  It is better to be safe than sorry.

Thanks so much for this post, it's worth thinking about

In some cases that happened, but the closest relative you have is your family and what will happened to your assets when no one knows about it after you die, or in any case you accidentally died. You still need someone to leave your assets, else, it would just die with you. Better that someone will use it after you passed away so it will be beneficial to them.

Exposing yourself and your assets just you are creating more devil eyes to focus on you.Just act normally and focus on where you want to be.Never tell the wallet keys to your friends or discus at public place.

Keep learning and growing,Help them to learn from you but avoid to share the details of your assets.I also agree that there should be a side work or business that no one can judge you are involving in illegal activities.Learn to how safe yourself and your crypto assets is also skill of a professional trader or investor.

The best thing what you can do is to store your cryptocurrencies completely offline and let know where you put your private keys to your close family. Secondly you have to think about natural disasters, so cryptosteel or bunkeroid is the solution. Then do not forget where you hide it.  :D

In order to protect ourself, we must be security conscious. We must learn to keep our private key safe and not store it where scammers can have access to it. We should not disclose our portfolio to anyone except for close family members.

store crypto currency in an offline wallet if you lose your device then end it !, in my opinion it's better to be online, or maybe half is in an online wallet, many trusted online wallets, Myetherwallet is one of them

You won't become a target if someone knows you have crypto. Don't be too paranoid about it unless you have a lot of money invested. People also see you drive expensive car or live in a big house.

Many things you do show you as a wealthy person but that isn't stopping people from inviting friends over and throwing a parties where everyone can see what they have in the house. Maybe somebody finds your drone attractive, maybe it's your camera or your new laptop. You can't live like a recluse afraid that somebody will see your wealth.

Sharing something with our partners in doing something in cryptocurrency is a good and appropriate thing to do so that they can immediately give advice based on their observations. But for accounts or other personal information relating to assets that we have in cryptocurrency, we should save it ourselves and not spit it out or show it to our partners about the assets we have and also our other personal information in cryptocurrency to him because sometimes people can who we believe take the opportunity when they see that what we have is something very good.

I think the only people that know about coins I keep are people I never met in real life before. These are my friends I met during my early beginning in crypto. My close family and friends do not have any idea of crypto

That's certainly true. We are the ones in charge of our properties. We should be able to keep it safe and secure, and by exposing everything online and even with our friends, we should not put it at risk. Sharing an idea about the coins that we only carry with our trusted friends is great, but at the same time we should keep our private keys and wallets secure. All the time, we have to be vigilant and cautious to keep things private.

protecting ourselves and protecting the key assets where we store them is very important, and we must be able to really store and protect those keys properly, indeed besides we work on crypto trading or invest in them, we should have other businesses in the real world so that we are not in the spotlight of many people about our income in crypto, but there are other businesses that can also be able to generate profits for us.

How are we going to protect ourselves? It is simply by playing smart, knowledge is what we need in order to protect our funds and manage to grow it. We cannot increase it if we are dumb person, we should have financial intelligence in order for us to identify the scam projects in the market. Identifying the risks and potential rewards are also matter because it is a skill in order to know if the project is worth it or not.

By learning knowledge in crypto and invest only on what we can afford to lose only through this way we can protect ourselves in investing in crypto. Also securing our assets is a must and before investing assessing the project must be done to protect our funds. Since many scam project identifying them indeed is very important.

This is making good sense. In as much as we are excited about our achievements on crypto currency we don't only Learn trading, financial development and social interactions here. We learn morals, upgrade our brain ,both psychological and emotional balance. When the publicize bitcoin by our success around it, it promote bitcoin though,but not at the detriment of our own life and financial health. Don't make too much noise of yourself and let your success speak to avoid attacks.

I don't like showing my portfolio to strange people or even my friends. If i gain too much attention, i might be targeted by the governments or crimes. Morever, the crypto wallet can easily stolen if the private keys is leaked and police won't help me protect it because crypto is not legal in my country.

right, to protect myself from any crime attacks then at least i don't easily trust anyone who is new to me and not post anything too much or anything excessive on sensitive social media, so at least we will be safe. with us behaving more closed then at least it will also have an impact on the assets we have and maintain every security properly

thats alright however you cant say that you are now already safe because there are still a chance that you can be hack online  even if you are a kind of silent person  because no one escapes a hackers if a hackers unfortunately target your account  especially if you dont secure your account too much like if you dont put 2fa's and strong password texts  .  

The truth is those who plan evil things on us are people around us, people that know us very well, if you go around letting people know how much you worth in fiat or crypto you will easily become a target, the least person you expected to carry out bad intent on you will be the one who will hunt you

Having a regular job/business is really important because without that people will start thinking that you are making millions with crypto and it is "Free money" so they start expecting gifts from you. Even if your trading is going well, and you are making enough money, do a job or create a small business where you can do your regular trading, its not that hard. Also buy a wallet if you think you have a lump sum amount of money in crypto, trezor or a ledger is not that costly. Keep the coins there which you are not going to trade or spend in short term.

The best thing to do to protect yourself and all of your assets is to simply guard it off. Don't let anyone knows anykind of personal business you have. Learn to keep it as a top secret if you have this kind of multi or huge kind of accounts. Simply as that.

True, although basically the crypto world requires a large community, but we do not have to tell things that are personal to our close friends, because that is easy to attack us is our closest friend, not someone else.

A good way to do this is by encrypting your wallet, you also encrypt your private key so only you can sign your transactions and use them. This makes it very difficult for someone else to read the information without your private key. But worse comes to worst that even if you not telling anyone about coins you held or expose your portfolio, there still chance a leak from 3rd party side like exchange, windows vulnerable or web exploit,...

at this time it is very vulnerable to hacking the wallet that we have from people we don't want, so that what we have stored there is taken at will. what the colleague said above is one good solution, too, by creating a private key. this is also one of the useful protection but actually the most important thing is, never open any links that you don't believe. the link is usually rewarded with prizes, because usually that's where our wallet can be drained. make it a habit to also open up whatever you often use from bookmarks, not from google, because many websites resemble the original.

To protect yourself and also your assets, learn to be more wiser upon making decisions on how to protect all of your investment. Never allow someine to know your privacy, simply keep everything to yourself alone. Never show and share it to anybody because when it happens its make sense that it wont be safe for you and you might loss everything. In addition, do not entertain every project without making a reviews just deal with a project that can protect your investment and make it grows more in the future.

It is true. that happened to my neighbour in 2017. The incident began when he often exhibited whatever he got. when he uploaded his new car on Facebook and wrote a caption that the car was obtained from the advantages of trading in bitcoin. The next day, he was robbed by an unknown person and also forced to move bitcoin private key data into the flash disk. Laptops and other valuables had been brought by a group of robbers. Really pity.

This is why I tell people to not boast too much about their earnings in crypto especially outside the forum. You never know who are the people behind those profile that stalks your profile right now.
This is also why I stopped staying in Facebook at full-time like 8 hours a day.

Yes, that's something to warn those who are making a lot of money in a short time. There are lots of gato people out there and when they know you make a lot of money, they will look at you and find the wrong points in your business and condemn them. This is the biggest experience I have ever known and I have learned from it. when we are rich, we should be humble and help more people instead of bragging and causing trouble for our future.

In what way do we have to protect it ?, To protect ourselves from hacker attacks, which is to save the exchange sites that we often trade, and store your private key on the spreadsheets that you have created to keep you from forgetting, that is one of them, there is still one many ways and it depends on ourselves

It depends from how you understand the risk. Traders needs to realized that hackers are everywhere they waiting for the time when holders
got distracted or forget about protecting their wallets or so some mistake for sure they will penetrate right away and hacked your wallet and
empty everything, your awareness will keep you guided, be safe always.

storing all private keys in 1 spreadsheet account is indeed good but you also need to know that you have to be able to secure your google account and make sure you do not access other websites or install add-ons by using the existing email spreadsheet data because when you are phishing then You will lose all assets when hacked.

what if you keep the private key assets in printed form and afterwards are covered with protectors so they don't get damaged when exposed to water and are stored in your safe or cupboard.

Well the best way to fight or avoid people who likes to hack an account for money is to not store too much private account information in the internet because internet is a open/public network where you can be hacked anytime so prevention is a priority, let us not make things easy for hackers, what you have said is a very brialliant idea, put your information on a multiple papers and keep them and make sure to use high quality ink and paper so that it won't fade for some time.

There is only way to protect yourself from hackers as that is not to trust anyone but keep investing and holding but never panic as hackers are so clever. We should protect our money for not investing it in unknown projects as mostly are introduced by hacker as they will be able get our money by hacking account better use safe wallet and not to share the private key with anyone.

all storage facilities we use also have the risk of being hacked. but I try not to save investment assets in exchange but my wallet. I only keep assets for trading in exchange. it is also not for a long time, when I get a profit then I will withdraw money from the exchange. as much as possible not to make mistakes on yourself in storing assets in a personal wallet.

Using as a medium's choice for connecting to the internet world of the website and application, investors describe as hacked with as little as one to give maximum protection to avoid risks. When I was younger, I was a hacker and now I'm still working with the hacking plan as a hobby on a wide internet desktop entrance.

t is very good to take precautions to defend your assets, however taking into account that no protection is 100% guaranteed.
Unfortunately, if a hacker really wants to enter your computer, there is almost certainty that he will succeed.
So, be careful.
Above all, not to notice ...

You can still be sure of protection, at least by 99.99% if you are able to use an hardware wallet. If you can be careful in not giving your pass code to someone else, then you are safe. Giving it out is bridging your security.
Then, you should also try as much as possible, not to reveal your worth to anyone, maybe out of pride or anything, because that might make you a target. By virtue of this, professional hackers will not rest, until they get to the root of your security.

If I tell everyone on here how much of coins or $$ I have in my wallet won't make me a target because on here no one knew me, its only risky to say words about your worth offline especially to people who know where you live

yes, as long as MAUT doesn't pick me up then I think my family / closest people / friends / anyone will never be able to find out the assets that I have now. unless I have personally written a will, maybe the people closest to me will know in advance about my crypto assets. so of course I protect myself by not letting anyone know about my wallet key.

I protect all the assets that I have just by making this my own privacy and no one knows but myself. starting from wallet, private key, password and others related to cryptocurency that I have.  and I also don't publish or expose anything I have on social media. because in my opinion to maintain privacy it must be in privacy.

You are right and I agree with you. The first thing is to ensure the security of our wallets and for those that writes their keys, backup phrases on paper, it is wise to be careful of those you invite to your home or those you leave the comfort of your home to as most humans are wicked. Secondly, it is very important to lie low on your crypto assets and also mind people you hang out with for fear of jealousy which leads to other hateful things. And lastly, even if you want educate people on crypto, mind the way you go about it make sure they understand what they are getting into so as not to attack you especially during bear market.

Yes. Having helcopter view on cryptocurrencies, my friends think it's only Bitcoin and someday I will become billionaire.
I have now stopped discussing my involvement in crypto with my friends. The more you spread it, there are more chances getting exposed.
So wise thing is to keep it limited and also controlled.

A good habit starts from ourselves, and then it will change in what we do. You are very right, if it starts from our own property to protect what we have, the crypto assets that we have will also be protected in accordance with the protection of ourselves and family.

Protecting the best we can is like saving us protecting ourselves

I was reading the other day of someone who deleted his wallet application without taking note of his private keys, then I still wonder within me if people are yet to understand that private keys etc are to be guided accordingly and carefully. So in relation to what you said, everyone should be careful of how to protect their wallets, mind the type of friends you have and take appropriate actions towards your security. Also, keeping mum on certain issues and questions about your assets and how to invest reduces unnecessary prying eyes hence keeping you safe.

I agree. Apart from keeping your accounts safe and secure by putting up lots of security features to be able to keep your account accessed only by you, you must also be able to control yourself not to expose or share the contents of your portfolio to other people even to your friends and to the other people whom you trust. You must keep your data private and enclose only those information for yourself. Because no matter what security features you provide to secure your account but you keep on exposing your account or portfolio into other people, then it will all be nonsense. It is an important factor to consider protecting yourself together with your assets by not sharing such sensitive information that you are working with crypto so that those people who think that you are having fortune working with crypto will not be able to target you. To be able to keep yourself as well as your asset safe, you must be responsible enough to keep such information to yourself so that you can only keep yourself do have the access into your account and your assets.

I thought a lot about this and you know, if you really earn on cryptocurrency, sooner or later it will be known to a wide circle of people. It all depends on what kind of information they will know.

Because this activity is in any case legal and interesting. Therefore, even telling similar things to your close friends there is a high probability that they will tell someone else to brag, then the person will disseminate this information and it may ultimately reach the “bad guys” or good porn with “bad intentions”. But what can be done in this case?

However, it should be pre-prepared fake private keys where a small amount will be stored, the size of which you determine yourself. But everything should look as if you are giving away real private keys with all your savings, in this case, the chances that you will be left behind are much higher. Of course, always keep in mind that you should not disseminate accurate information about your assets, this is what will protect you at the right time.

Firstly, it is far from necessary that people will come to you with requirements to give them your private wallets, because the information that they own must first be checked, because you can turn out to be a banal liar who does not earn anything on cryptocurrency. If they still came to you and require private keys from you under torture, then the best thing you can do is give them your private keys.

I agree with you. The most important thing is to take care of your safety. I don't tell my friends about cryptocurrency. Only my closest people know that I'm doing it.

Just try to take crypto as a good asset but at the same time, i have told some of my friends about that. As long as you will never give your privatekey to your close friends and that will never happen that your amount will be stolen by your friend. I have experienced my friend was telling his friend about privatekey and his tokens got stolen by his friend. Just keep any important thing privately.

I think anyone bringing his friends and families to the crypto space should first and foremost educate them on how to be safe, and this includes how to secure their private keys etc; private keys should be treated very importantly as it is the only thing which shows one owns a wallet. Also, those who goes about making public their assets are only putting their selves to risk because it might cause envy among friends etc. Secondly, one should be cautious of those he/she invites to his home as well as who operates his smartphones as some people can be dubious.

You are right and I think what leads to people exposing their portfolio might be as a result of showing off because I don't understand why someone would put himself at unnecessary risks when knowing how trickish humans can be. Also, even at keeping portfolios a secret let's also be at alert on how we talk, anyone seeking knowledge about cryptocurrencies should be properly educated and invest at his own terms so as not to bring unnecessary issues among friends and families. Lastly, let's protect our mobile wallets, if possible use an app lock to lock them just to be safe especially for those who gives out their phones to people.

Is it not those alive would enjoy Cryptocurrency? Please it's very important we protect ourselves first. I love you all and wouldn't want any harm on anyone using this platform. Coronal virus is real so do well by protecting yourself, your family, your assets even friends all well-wishers

I agree with you. When people look at your lifestyle and you don't do any kind of job. Then people will doubt where you get the money from. Because people don't know about crypto yet. That's why they may think you are involved in some kind of illegal act. So if you have a job, you can tell them want you doing. And no one will doubt if involved with Crypto.

Protection in the crypto industry has to go beyond just protecting your assets for sure. Your identity is also a very important factor as you don't want hackers to be tracking every little bit of details about you. That is why i always turn on my vpn anytime I am accessing any crypto website and forums too. You can never be too sure in this industry.