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'How I lost £25,000 when my cryptocurrency was stolen'

From bbc.com

The investigations continue, and my money remains stolen. Of course, I should never have stored my password anywhere on my computer. Malware can scan keystroke movements and sniff out a private key - even if, as I had done, you chop it up into separate blocks and store it in different places. But writing down a private key on paper can be just as hazardous. A house fire, flood, hungry pet - simply a bad memory - can mean that huge amounts of cryptocurrency are lost forever. You could hammer our your private key on to a fire and corrosion proof titanium tag - check out Cryptotag's solution - and then store it in a ... (full story)

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