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Bitcoin Q&A: How Do I Secure My Bitcoin?

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CryptographyInvesting & personal finance

What it is

Andreas Antonopoulos answers a question about how to secure your Bitcoin. He covers holding your own keys, backing up the 12 to 24 word seed phrase, and the tradeoffs of custodial accounts, phone wallets and hardware wallets.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a clear explanation of self-custody and of why to move coins off exchanges.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “Here's a talk by the venerable Andreas Antonopoulos on this subject”

    Antonopoulos on moving coins off exchanges

    brndnmtthws, 2017-12 · Recommendation · in “How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop”

  2. “The full seminar is worth watching as well”

    Full seminar on securing bitcoin

    bastijn, 2018-01 · Recommendation · in “Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bitcoin, key management, hardware wallets, seed phrase, security

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