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Today at 05:44:43 AM
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I want to know, does this improve and enhance our security level for our investment? Because nowadays the manner at which people are getting fished or hacked is becoming increasingly alarming which to me I felt it would be that better to either moved out our assets from wallet A to wallet B just to make sure our investment wouldn’t be a major target for others.

Your opinion are welcomed.

I don't know if you change it? I like to keep Bitcoin in multiple wallets. Because I (JJG he said you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket), and I myself am somewhat proven because if one of my wallets gets hacked then all my Bitcoins will be lost. But if I keep Bitcoin in multiple wallets then the chances of losing those Bitcoins completely are less.
So keeping Bitcoin in multiple wallets is very important for more security, it is also one of the advanced plans.

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Today at 08:42:49 AM
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I want to know, does this improve and enhance our security level for our investment? Because nowadays the manner at which people are getting fished or hacked is becoming increasingly alarming which to me I felt it would be that better to either moved out our assets from wallet A to wallet B just to make sure our investment wouldn’t be a major target for others.

Your opinion are welcomed.

I don't know if you change it? I like to keep Bitcoin in multiple wallets. Because I (JJG he said you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket), and I myself am somewhat proven because if one of my wallets gets hacked then all my Bitcoins will be lost. But if I keep Bitcoin in multiple wallets then the chances of losing those Bitcoins completely are less.
So keeping Bitcoin in multiple wallets is very important for more security, it is also one of the advanced plans.


I agree that storing Bitcoin across multiple wallets can reduce the risk of losing everything if one wallet is compromised. However, I don’t think changing wallet addresses every few years is necessary by itself. Good security practices, such as protecting your seed phrase, using wallets that security is high, and avoiding phishing links, are more important. I personally use Oppi Wallet for keeping some of my Bitcoin separate from other holdings.
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Today at 09:21:13 AM
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If you are reusing the same address for many years that is a bad practice. You should only use an address once and have the change go to a new address whenever you spend your coins. It is bad for your privacy to keep using the same address.

If you have only used an address once and kept those funds in cold storage for years, then you do not need to rotate your coins to new address, unless the seed was generated on a Coldcard or there was some other security related reason.

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Today at 09:25:01 AM
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Your opinion are welcomed.
Since your concerns now are on the security of your bitcoins and not privacy, I do not think that it is that neccessary to change your wallet address from time to time. Except maybe you sense that there is a compromise somewhere or someone else whom you do not trust could also  access you bitcoins. Then, you can move your bitcoins.

But under a normal condition, you are not certain that the other wallet you are moving your bitcoins to are safe. You may be moving your bitcoins from a safe place to a den or a location already targeted by hackers.

If the security of your bitcoins give you so much concern, it is better to store your bitcoins in multiple addresses. That way, if one gets affected, others are still safe.

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Today at 10:28:27 AM
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Holding Bitcoin in multiple wallets is the most secure, if you want to keep Bitcoin for a long time in this current situation, then you should use strong wallets. Especially if you use hardware wallets, your Bitcoin will be the most secure and protected, you can be safe in the future, but if you use multiple wallets, your Bitcoin will be much more private.
That is why it is recommended to use multiple wallets, if you have several Bitcoins in one wallet, it may be revealed, so you can face danger with your many at any time. So it is important to keep your wallet in multiple Bitcoins to protect your privacy.

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Today at 10:36:35 AM
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Holding Bitcoin in multiple wallets is the most secure, if you want to keep Bitcoin for a long time in this current situation, then you should use strong wallets. Especially if you use hardware wallets, your Bitcoin will be the most secure and protected, you can be safe in the future, but if you use multiple wallets, your Bitcoin will be much more private.
That is why it is recommended to use multiple wallets, if you have several Bitcoins in one wallet, it may be revealed, so you can face danger with your many at any time. So it is important to keep your wallet in multiple Bitcoins to protect your privacy.
Secure or not, it all depends on your practice.

If you use many wallets but store them all in one device, their backups are stored all in only one place, it is not your good practice, and it's not actually different than other people who use only one wallet and has one wallet backup.

Your practice is only secure if you know and maintain a principle of storing your fund in different wallets, on different devices, and the same for your wallet backups. It's similar with your wallet passwords too because like passwords of accounts, if you only use one passwords for all things, it's very weak in security for your accounts, wallets and anything you need to encrypt it for security protection.

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Today at 10:58:24 AM
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Take example from Satoshi wallet, the million Bitcoin in the wallet have never moved from one wallet to the other, and inactive, but yet remain secured and private.
That is not the best example however.  It shows that his Bitcoin is still secure but if Satoshi is dead then he would not even be able to move any thing.

This makes sense. I am also thinking about instances where "the more conscious you are, the more worried you are about your Bitcoin", the more chance it will put in risks.
For example, if you are changing wallets every 3-8 hours or at any time, what if a time comes when, by mistake, you send to the wrong wallet address, or the backup of private keys or seed phrases missed some characters or words, it could happen. So instead, you are already fine and just enjoying life, and your BItcoin just sitting in 1 wallet; it's all lost.
Seriously I don't see the need to change wallets when you have no issues with the current wallet and for that reason you should make sure that you only use a new wallet to receive from people you don't have constant transactions with that way you can decide to spend your bitcoin from that particular wallet through whichever P2P means you wish to, because alot of the things that affects most wallet is when there is case of vulnerability which doesn't happen regularly and you should make sure to use a cold wallet that the company have some insurance fund's to cover up for clients loses.

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Today at 11:09:26 AM
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I want to know, does this improve and enhance our security level for our investment? Because nowadays the manner at which people are getting fished or hacked is becoming increasingly alarming which to me I felt it would be that better to either moved out our assets from wallet A to wallet B just to make sure our investment wouldn’t be a major target for others.

Of course, it does enhance our security but you still have to manage your keys appropriately. If you are the type that save your keys in online passwords managers, store it offline but carelessly where it's likely to be seen by another person, then you are just wasting your time changing your address if you're still going to make that same mistake.

Seriously I don't see the need to change wallets when you have no issues with the current wallet

But do you realise there's no need to change your wallet when there's issue? For you to have issue, it means your coin is gone already. Do you really want to wait until issue arises before you take action? I guess No.

Op is making sense thou. You don't need to wait for issues before you act. Changing your address is preventing the issue from happening, not to fix the issue when they already happened because it might be too late.

 
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