Quote from: inBitweTrust on January 30, 2015, 01:49:05 AM

Coinbase is a great company, unfortunately The US is very corrupt and coinbase will roll over to their demands at a whim.
By storing your Bitcoins at coinbase the best outcome you can hope for is the government stealing 15% of them.

Do not store your Bitcoins in coinbase, but in a paperwalet or hardware wallet-

Read this -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=858604.0

and this

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=899253.0

For more information.

Quote from: henryreardon on January 29, 2015, 07:54:42 PM

I feel much more educated on this subject now thanks to y'all's replies and to coinbase support

https://community.coinbase.com/t/saving-all-bitcoins-on-usb-stick-so-they-are-safe-from-usg-confiscation/233

This is not secure because all the IRS or an ex-wife has to have knowledge of is mere suspicion which can and will happen
with normal reporting or an audit. Remove your bitcoin and transfer them a few times to other new addresses before
securing them with one of the options above.

Personally, I am very sloppy with my bitcoin and keep losing it, forgetting my passwords, and giving it away. Grin

I think transfer to other addresses should include processing such a transfer via one or more BTC-mixers like bitmixer.io, etc. Also, You may wish to use the Onion version of bitmixer.io to further improve your anonimity.