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Re:Binance exchange hackers steal bitcoins worth $41m by kalleboo on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @08:42AM (#19858262)
It's in an offline wallet, right? And backed-up somehow incase the hardware wallet dies. And that backup made with an known-clean, freshly-installed, offline computer to avoid malware stealing it when you're making the backup.
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Re:Binance exchange hackers steal bitcoins worth $41m by __s on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @08:53AM (#19858343)
Nope, but it's still more secure than an exchange

I expect to lose more from btc's value crashing than some elite conspiracy of hackers having sabotaged my hardware & somehow working out my private key which isn't stored in plaintext

If I was holding a really great worth of btc, going the full mile of cold storage would make sense. At that point you're invested, quit kidding around

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