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Basic Questions about Cryptos / Re: A wallet as a container of money or exchange?
« on: April 28, 2024, 08:21:03 PM »Inasmuch as self custodial wallets are considered to be the safest when it comes to bitcoin storage, let's also consider what what happens when someone loses his private key, that means only one thing, all your funds are gone and can never be retrieved.This is what a lot of people thought, before they lost all their money in a collapsed centralized exchange, if you are using BTC, you have a responsibility to protect your seed phrase and your funds, and if you are serious about it, you won't lose it. Many reputable exchanges have collapsed in the past, so how do you trust one with your funds, it is a stupid thing to do.
But a reputable exchange on the other hand could also offer strong security measures to protect your funds, and are also very easy to use too.
Plus, some of these exchanges also have insurances to cover for any losses, just incase something eventually goes wrong and you end up incurring some losses.Mt.Gox's creditors are yet to get anything back, not that they are even waiting to get 100%, but they haven't even gotten anything at all. That's all i can say about what you just said.