But you must remember something that even if you sure that there's no hole to your account or your account have been securly kept from your own opinion, there'll always some kind of hole that the hackers can get to.
Always be aware of your security and trying to always improve the security. however, best choice is to use offline wallet so that even hacker can't get into it.

If you are really hodling a lot of coin I would suggest it is better to do some precautionary measures to safe guard your coin. Keeping it in an online wallet is the most vulnerable way to keep it. I would suggest using a paper or a hardware wallet is best to secure it.

Once your Bitcoin was already hacked you can't do anything about it and you can consider it as lost, so preventing it to be hacked is the best move to do.

Yes, you should. Because the hackers are more and more dangerous now. So you should be careful. You should put a small of coin in the exchange to trade or for fee. The rest should be store in offline wallet.

Definitely, The easiest way to get Bitcoins is to hack someone's wallet, it became a trend for all the hackers and lots of people are trying to do it. Buy a trezor or ledger nano and keep your bitcoins and altcoins safe.

I have btc stored in electrum.  I do have a password i put in it if you want to send btc.  Thus if you send btc, it ask for your password.  However, i did not put a password there for the encryption of the btc balance.  I also used electrum litecoin where i keep litecoin and when i click on it, i have to put the password in order to view my litecoin balance and history etc.


To those that use electrum, do you encrypt your wallet where you have to put a password on it before you can view how much btc is showing on balance?  Because if you don't, when you click on electrum wallet, it shows your btc balance etc.


I use windows.  What precautions can i take since i use a computer for it?  For example, i asked on a thread where i said if someone had access to my computer, could they install a keylogger or malware or program and then hack my electrum?  I was told yes.  This is true right?  I feel it has to be true since i read about people who download the wrong electron cash and then got their btc stolen... so that means if someone computer savy got your laptop, then you have no more bitcoin?


People say use cold storage or hardware wallet.  What exactly is cold storage?  The thing is what if you use electrum a lot to send btc to and from etc.  Would cold storage work for that?  About the hardware wallet, you mean trezor or the ledger right?  So if you had a hardware wallet, its impossible for someone to hack your bitcoin wallet?  So if you have trezor, you dont need electrum anymore?  So if you download the wrong electron cash on your computer but use trezor, your bitcoin are safe?   But what if someone had your computer and your trezor?  I assume they still need to know something for your trezor and if so what is that?  Is it a password or a number code?


Now let say you dont have a hardware wallet and just use electrum or exodus or your computer.  Well if you put a password on your computer at startup, is that enough or not?  Like if you put a password for windows before startup, its the one where you have to type it before you can use your computer... is that enough?  I did hear its easy to get by that and the windows password is useless.  Is that true or false?  I also heard people mention bitlocker or something like that.  Can someone explain this?  So having bitlocker would protect your computer information if someone had access to your computer?  Thus if they had physically possession of your computer, they would not be able to view your computer without a password?  Because i want to know what is the way to make sure no one can log into your computer if they were to say have access to it.  I assume this is the number 1 thing you could do to protect yourself besides not clicking on links etc?


Also there are tons of links and signatures here from poster etc.  Is there a very good chance some of these links posters post here are keyloggers/malware where clicking it could mean your bitcoin wallet such as electrum get hacked?

Its depend if where wallet do you put to store your coin, i think before you collect bitcoin, first you should search about wallet want to use, then pick a strong password also dont tell to anyone your personal info. There are a lot trusted wallet to choose but just be careful when you pick wallet.

You can depend on the highly suggest wallet of professional traders and it also depend on the coins that you are holding on what wallet you should choose. The best thing to do is look for the information before choosing a wallet where to hold your coins.

The thing is I have to, because it is just for a short time I a keeping the BTC, after 3days I have other plans for it as I am investing on an ICO.

I think you should be. We have a lot of reports of bitcoin being hacked everywhere, although there are no really solid evidences for such happening, what are you going to do if ever if happens to you (with your lots of btc). If I am in your place, Id rather not stock my bitcoins in one wallet, try to divide it in many wallets so if ever one wallet got hacked, at least not all of your btc is gone.

If you invested in hardware wallet and generally keeping a low profile, why should you be scarred? I think BTC price drop is scarier think if you have lots of them