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December 01, 2016, 07:00:13 AM
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Just come it to my mind. is it possible? to get hook into your wallet and send some to another wallet? Undecided
I think such type of hacking that is mentioned by you that " by your own wallet to hack another " .
In my opinion it is not so simple wether you want to hack own wallet or of another because the securities in the Bitcoin wallet in the current time very power .
Since if you can get private key of any btc address ( wether address is your or not ) you use it for deal without any problem .
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December 01, 2016, 07:16:46 AM
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It is possible. But it takes more time and effort to hack someone's trasanctions or bitcoin wallet than just mining itself. This was discussed in Satoshi's whitepaper. He was saying that if a hacker would try to hack the blockchain, the resources required will be more expensive than just trying to mine it the legit way. So to answer this, yes it is possible but it will not be worth it.
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December 01, 2016, 07:21:38 AM
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Pretty much anything is hackable, as long as there is intent to do it. However we may be diligent and vigilant with our security settings, sometimes the best hackers can still break that barrier / protective wall. It's part of the risk of doing things online and as long as something has value, I think it will always be subject to threats and hacking.
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December 01, 2016, 10:25:09 AM
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you have to learn what are the ways that you can get hacked and then try to find ways to prevent those ways. for example one of the most common ways of getting hacked is having a key logger on your computer. solution is simply having a good anti virus and not downloading things you are not sure about.

and as for bitcoin and bitcoin wallet as long as there is cold storage everyone should build themselves one and transfer their bitcoins there to prevent all kinds of hacks.

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December 01, 2016, 10:32:46 AM
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you have to learn what are the ways that you can get hacked and then try to find ways to prevent those ways. for example one of the most common ways of getting hacked is having a key logger on your computer. solution is simply having a good anti virus and not downloading things you are not sure about.

and as for bitcoin and bitcoin wallet as long as there is cold storage everyone should build themselves one and transfer their bitcoins there to prevent all kinds of hacks.
Having a good anti virus is just really a basic requirement if you like to have a secure and clean pc or laptop. Stealing would be impossible especially if you know about your computer and no one could able to put keyloggers unless if you downloaded some files.Thats why we should be vigilant regarding into these because being hacked is possible within this kind of methods by hackers.

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December 01, 2016, 11:05:01 AM
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Just come it to my mind. is it possible? to get hook into your wallet and send some to another wallet? Undecided
everything is possible i think can if you not be carefully with your private key
I think people will not be hacking the private key. you have to be careful with the spam in your email it might be a phishing or the like, use authentication so that they can not enter. although getting your password
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December 01, 2016, 11:24:59 AM
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Just come it to my mind. is it possible? to get hook into your wallet and send some to another wallet? Undecided
everything is possible i think can if you not be carefully with your private key
I think people will not be hacking the private key. you have to be careful with the spam in your email it might be a phishing or the like, use authentication so that they can not enter. although getting your password

hacking private key and losing it are two different things. private keys on their own are string enough that it makes hacking them impossible if that is what you were thinking.
and so far whoever had lost bitcoin or their private keys were because they have lost them. like using an unsafe computer which has keylogger on it or entering their private keys on a website which they don't know.

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December 01, 2016, 11:52:13 AM
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Hacking particular Wallet is possible, though every wallet service providers had enabled high security features. For increaesd and improved security these days lot prefer offline wallets. I haven't come across any wallet hacking but highly secure banking networks have been hacked, which describes the skills of hackers will work more than the developers.

Yes hacking wallet or exchange is not a difficult task in some cases but hacking the bitcoin network is near to impossible (it will need hell of mining power share) thus we are vulnerable mostly on our individual level (by phishing, social engineering etc) and then on community level by losing all the funds due to exchange hack. We can only take prevention on individual level and rest of the methods are out of our control as a bitcoin user.
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December 01, 2016, 12:13:18 PM
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I am absolutely sure that nobody can steal bitcoins from my wallet (assuming no web wallets). But I'm not sure that I will not forget my password or my passphrase which maybe I cannot remember. I am much more confident about the money in bitcoin despite of the money in any bank
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December 01, 2016, 12:20:39 PM
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I think is possible but it is very difficult when I log into my wallet need to be authorized in my email and after that will be sent code 2FA for my number phone, I think so difficult to hack this wallet.
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December 01, 2016, 12:21:32 PM
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the security of bitcoins is  becoming tighter day by day .so  u can see some flaws in accounts  .but u cant expect accounts to be hacked  every now and then well if u dont have any enemity with the hackers otherwise it will be fine to keep  a lot of bitcoins in ur account.

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December 01, 2016, 02:31:40 PM
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you have to learn what are the ways that you can get hacked and then try to find ways to prevent those ways. for example one of the most common ways of getting hacked is having a key logger on your computer. solution is simply having a good anti virus and not downloading things you are not sure about.

and as for bitcoin and bitcoin wallet as long as there is cold storage everyone should build themselves one and transfer their bitcoins there to prevent all kinds of hacks.

having a good anti-virus isn't enough if you are not responsibly and carefully using your pc/laptop or any device and you tend to download unknown files from unknown and Untrusted websites then you are still on the risk. anti-viruses are not the same they are not actually the same when it comes to that certain feature where they will give you a notice when you are downloading a file that might be unsafe. we should beware on downloading files from the internet as we wouldn't know if it is safe or it will bring a harm to our computer system and will be access some of our accounts.
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December 03, 2016, 02:15:35 AM
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Just come it to my mind. is it possible? to get hook into your wallet and send some to another wallet? Undecided
can , so don't save all your bitcoin in one wallet and be carefully

 
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December 03, 2016, 02:18:58 AM
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Just come it to my mind. is it possible? to get hook into your wallet and send some to another wallet? Undecided
can , so don't save all your bitcoin in one wallet and be carefully

Well I suggest you choose the wallet that is very secured. And avoid sharing your earnings online to prevent other from thinking to hack your account. I think it is very safe to keep your bitcoins from your desktop wallet rather than online to lessen the risk of hacking your bitcoin.
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December 03, 2016, 02:26:33 AM
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I think is possible but it is very difficult when I log into my wallet need to be authorized in my email and after that will be sent code 2FA for my number phone, I think so difficult to hack this wallet.

Yup todays verifications before logging in or accessing for transactions seems really impossible to hack. But to lessen still the worry I prefer saving / storing  it in different wallets just for assurance because it still hard when I put all in one wallet so atleast even one may hack i dont lose alot though my money is not that big but still I worked for it and its important by just storing it for sure soon it will doubled the value.

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December 03, 2016, 02:42:16 AM
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It is possible. But it takes more time and effort to hack someone's trasanctions or bitcoin wallet than just mining itself. This was discussed in Satoshi's whitepaper. He was saying that if a hacker would try to hack the blockchain, the resources required will be more expensive than just trying to mine it the legit way. So to answer this, yes it is possible but it will not be worth it.
I doubt a hacker will try that approach, what I think is most likely is a virus or trojan infect your computer and then the hacker gets your passwords including the ones for your wallet and then the hacker access your wallet and leaves it empty, I think that is more likely.

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December 03, 2016, 02:58:09 AM
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It is very possible to hack your bitcoin account many hacker try and practice to do it. No system is safe even though it has many security features it cam be crack. And also dont click on shorten links it maybe a phising site were if u log in ur id info and pass it well send to their number or email. Thats other way of being wallet is hackable.

it is possible, yes. just like the past hacker who hacked an exchange (if I am not mistaken). but it needs high level of hacking competence, of course. you need skill to be able to hack bitcoin which is known as unhackable system.

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December 03, 2016, 05:36:34 AM
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Yes, anything on the internet can be hacked. Especially bitcoin which is also a currency makes hackers monitor your wallet and try to hack it. If they know you have some big amounts on your wallet they will use any way of hacking they know to steal your bitcoin from your wallet.
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December 04, 2016, 04:53:13 PM
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Yes, it is possible, honestly it did happen years ago where bitcoin worth of 1 million USD have been stolen to the blockchain and it is possible to happen again. There is no impossible to those black hat hackers that only knows how to steal something from someone's property. We just have to be prepare for this, so we are not gonna surprise in the future. It would be better if we would convert all the bitcoin that we have in the right time in fiat so that we won't regret a thing even this hacking bitcoin season comes.
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December 04, 2016, 06:05:26 PM
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Just come it to my mind. is it possible? to get hook into your wallet and send some to another wallet? Undecided

Bitcoin isn't possible to be hacked your wallet is, especially if you are storing you bitcoins using a web wallet so you need to secure your account and you should be aware of those malicious softwares and phishing sites also you should choose the best web wallet that is not vulnerable and cannot be easily hacked.
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