Crypto Security Beyond the Private Key

[albon]

Your topic idea, OP,, has been discussed many times before,  and it's clear that privacy is one of the fundamental factors in keeping seed phrases secure. Privacy protects your wallet as much as it protects the keys themselves, and any breach of it makes an investor an easy target for scammers who constantly watch those who make profits and fortunes.

Therefore, every beginner should avoid boasting about their achievements in public and keep such matters to themselves because no one knows what lies in people’s hearts and not everyone wishes us well.. I've seen many people fall victim to scams simply because they publicly revealed disclosed their profits they made... With the growing number of victims of scams, maintaining privacy has become an absolute necessity, not a luxury. Indeed , we must remain gray people, and no one needs to know what we do or what we own, as it benefits no one to meddle in what doesn’t concern them.

[Satofan44]

4)Separate Your Online Personas - a direct path to bipolar personality disorder.

Better yet, don't have one at all. No risk of any disorder, no risk of compromise. Passive readers are the most protected userbase of the internet.

I agree that one shouldn't trust on strangers online as a basic precautionary measure, but in my crypto journey I have met many people who made the right decision when they could've simply disappeared with the money, which has always surprised me and, at the same time, has restored my confidence in the good nature of many people. Perhaps this happened more at a time when most of us were new in this industry (2017) and because we all were quite newbies and humble, not the exit scam kind of CEOs who were many fewer but did a lot of damage.

All it takes is 1 situation to go bad to hurt you more than you have gained from all those previous situations of trusting strangers. Do not do it. If you trust strangers you have joined Bitcoin for the wrong reasons. It is the extreme opposite of what Bitcoin is about. Do not trust, verify.

Maybe nowadays, with all these new cryptobros poisoned by social media, the culture is different, more competitive and based on arrogance and vanity, but I still think that despite the bad news about scams that continues to be heard, there are still people with principles and values that can be trusted.

No, it was always like this. Perhaps it got slightly worse but it isn't drastically different than it was. It is your perception bias. The fewer people were in crypto, the more the smart and honest voices stood out as their % of the population was higher. As more average people join these people are drowned by the majority. Anyway, many people in crypto would sell their mother's KYC for $100 and it isn't the cryptobros.  

[MusaPk]

Your topic idea, OP,, has been discussed many times before,  and it's clear that privacy is one of the fundamental factors in keeping seed phrases secure. Privacy protects your wallet as much as it protects the keys themselves, and any breach of it makes an investor an easy target for scammers who constantly watch those who make profits and fortunes.

Therefore, every beginner should avoid boasting about their achievements in public and keep such matters to themselves because no one knows what lies in people’s hearts and not everyone wishes us well.. I've seen many people fall victim to scams simply because they publicly revealed disclosed their profits they made... With the growing number of victims of scams, maintaining privacy has become an absolute necessity, not a luxury. Indeed , we must remain gray people, and no one needs to know what we do or what we own, as it benefits no one to meddle in what doesn’t concern them.

The first task of every scammer or hacker is to find a potential target which can give good reward. By revealing details of your assets, you are doing half of the scammer work. Let the scammer do this hard work alone, why to aid him? There are so many cases where people are scammed/hacked after announcing there monetary success online. One such interesting case is:  

London gang jailed for kidnapping Belgian barber over fake crypto fortune - he only had $9, so they settled for $2.7k.

This advice is not limited to beginners but for experienced users also. With growing cases of scam/hack, it's better to take preventive meausres in advance rather then repenting later.