Not if you send them to someone else, they would only be more secure if you never "sell" them.

We refer to these numbers as "magic numbers" :p

See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=263750.0 for an example of a discussion about them.

The genesis block cannot be spent.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block

Remember that bitcoins are not atomic units and are simply numbers. An address will express a balance of perhaps ("5 bitcoin") and then if you send 1 bitcoin to Dave, and then Dave sends 10 (Your 1 + his 9) to Fred and then Fred sends 1 back to you, that 1 contains via taint analysis a fraction of your original bitcoin but that is all, they dilute because they are stored as a number not as individual units.

I hope that helps.

Anyway I can get out of this isolated island please?

I was trying to make a joke, admittingly it was a bad one.

However a Linux wallet will always be more secure than a Windows wallet unless you are extremely careful of downloads and such.


Are you sure it's not 2 myths in 1 sentence?

Generally a Bitcoin wallet on Windows will eventually be stolen, it's known that Satoshi himself admitted his mistake running Bitcoin on Windows just after he went off to work on Litecoin better things.

Lets get out of the "newbie" jail together whilst having a really interesting discussion!