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Don't post about owning large amounts of cryptocurrency.

Spear Phishing / Whaling is a real threat, and you are simply not clever or diligent enough to anticipate all attacks. Once multi-millions are involved, it becomes practical to execute very elaborate attacks on high-potential targets. This can include meat-space 'monkey wrench' coercion or spy-novel style guile.

This is not a theoretical risk! https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/maste...



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