Quote from: Stephen Gornick on September 06, 2012, 11:15:35 AM

Quote from: Lethos on September 06, 2012, 09:06:44 AM

In your position I would consider looking at some of the long-term offers to deposit into. It means a bit of risk of course, but one could say having someone else look after it for you, is avoiding the risk you were actually worried about. Just stick to the low interest stuff.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=88.0

That is THE worst advice I've ever seen given in response to "how to stash my coins". Giving your coins to someone else to hold has way more risk than printing out paper wallets or running from a LiveOS, etc.

There is a reason why I said, the above I bolded in case you missed it. If she is not very tech savy, it's at least an option to trust someone else to look after it. It takes a lot more experience to do things like running a wallet from a LiveOS.
Just learning how to move bitcoins around to buy/sell them is probably all she wants to do.

If she full admits to not being tech savy, which one is more likely?
- She loses everything by something he did to his wallet or pc or means of storage.
- Well known person like Patrick walks of with his deposit.

In my experience of tech support, I can almost guarantee how frequently my non-techy friends end up need my help to fix a major issue over the course of a year. One of my worst is 4-5 times a year, some are more like 1 a year. Oh how I wish teaching them what or not to do helped, some learn, some don't.

By all means call my advice the worst. She can ignore it if he wants, I'm sure she will if it's so bad.