Illogic Paradox

[shulio]

what i mean that bitcoiners keep 50000$(exmple)"Fortun" in PC with 500$ is it logic ?

in my point of view they have to be affraid about their safety,i don't know but i think its a problem,Almost our transactions are not anonym so anyone
could know how much we have in our wallet,so we will be all "targets" (we have to paid bodey gard for our PC)

If you never tell anyone about your wallet address than you dont have to worry about this. There is alot of random wallet in blockchain that receives like hundreds of bitcoin transaction everyday. Unless you tell someone about your wallet then you wont be a target, people will just think of you as a random guy.

You can always put your bitcoin in a cold wallet for more safety or paper wallet

Even if you do tell people, you should have adequate security measures in place to make sure that no one can access your wallet.
That is the beauty of bitcoin, even if someone takes your computer, you should have the wallet encrypted and your computer locked, so no one can do anything with it anyway.

I have heard stories of people buying prescious metals and the delivery people coming back later and stealing them, luckily Bitcoin isn't vulnerable to that sort of thing.  I also don't think that the storage device for any investment needs to be valuable.  Diamonds could be stored in a $2 box, it doesn't matter.

Of course you need some extra safety for your wallet by encrypting it but if you dont tell anyone about what your wallet is, people will not know about it and not make you their target. I based this on the saying " if you dont show off then people wont knpw what you have"

[manselr]

OP just doesn't make sense.

You could put a couple kg's of gold worth a million dollars in a couple garbage bags worth less than 1 dollar and store it on there.
Who cares how much the recipient it's worth it?

[Jeremycoin]

That's why you need to set a  password and separates your Bitcoins to various wallets, so you won't loose so much Bitcoins if someone stole your PC

[Redones]

I dont know but i think in most reply you didn't understand what i wanna speaking for.
like replys where i found "that why there are password"password is nothing,any password can be broken in few seconde, the great security methodes are those in relation with you machine like (detection IP,2fA 'you browser'.....) because  in moste case haker couldent steal your machine,but if he does that all safe places will be broken.

[Lauda]

I dont know but i think in most reply you didn't understand what i wanna speaking for.
like replys where i found "that why there are password"password is nothing,any password can be broken in few seconde, the great security methodes are those in relation with you machine like (detection IP,2fA 'you browser'.....) because  in moste case haker couldent steal your machine,but if he does that all safe places will be broken.

You aren't making much sense here. I suggest using google translate; it should yield better results than this.
Are you talking about a hacker gaining physical access to your machine? Well then the only safety would be HDD/SDD encryption.
Besides passwords are often stolen via keylogger, rather than being broken.

[MicroGuy]

I dont know but i think in most reply you didn't understand what i wanna speaking for.
like replys where i found "that why there are password"password is nothing,any password can be broken in few seconde, the great security methodes are those in relation with you machine like (detection IP,2fA 'you browser'.....) because  in moste case haker couldent steal your machine,but if he does that all safe places will be broken.

This reminds me of the recent Bill Cosby interview.....



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y45Y-41DcY

[moni3z]

Indeed, Hal Finney's poor wife was harassed by some blackmailing scumbag for a year once he wrote here that he still had many of the original bitcoins from the early days of mining so don't let anybody know you have a small fortune in coins to avoid this. http://www.wired.com/2014/12/finney-swat/

[neoneros]

When there is value there is risk, no matter where you store it, if people know it is there, some might try to get to it, the more there is the harder they will try. Goes the same for Bitcoin as to any asset with value. Though Bitcoin, if kept right is far more secure than your bank account, there are ways to get to it, just the same as they get to your bank account, the methods are numerous, but the risk at the moment is still very low, the more it will be mainstream, the more it will be targetted.

[shulio]

because  in moste case haker couldent steal your machine,but if he does that all safe places will be broken.

You dont make sense. Not in most case but it is the same for all case because a hacker is a hacker, you could use some dictionary to know the meaning of hacker and a thief. Hacker dont steal your machine/hardware or whatever it is but only crack your password and the other things from behind the scene.

[Kyraishi]

Indeed, Hal Finney's poor wife was harassed by some blackmailing scumbag for a year once he wrote here that he still had many of the original bitcoins from the early days of mining so don't let anybody know you have a small fortune in coins to avoid this. http://www.wired.com/2014/12/finney-swat/

I had no idea that, that happened before I read your post.
Some people would do anything to satisfy their love for money.

[mezzomix]

I still believe that nothing beats paper wallets.
All you have to do is just make sure they are stored in a safe location.

If you are climbing, hiking, diving or hacking a cloud service you might find copies of my "paper" wallet. But finding a copy will not give you (access to) the money. 

[Kakmakr]

You would be stupid to keep all your BTC in one wallet. Keep those coins seperated in smaller amounts on paper wallets not linked to each other. If you look at my address, you would not see any links to any of my other paper wallets. Just use cold storage for the bigger amounts and you will be safe. ^puzzled^

[shulio]

You would be stupid to keep all your BTC in one wallet. Keep those coins seperated in smaller amounts on paper wallets not linked to each other. If you look at my address, you would not see any links to any of my other paper wallets. Just use cold storage for the bigger amounts and you will be safe. ^puzzled^

Spreading it will make it a bad idea for some person that has some problem to remember things. If you use mixer to keep all your bitcoin in one paper wallet that people will not be able to track it anymore. One paper wallet is enough to keep your entire btc to be safe