Quote from: franky1 on May 03, 2016, 02:11:16 AM

Quote from: Wapinter on May 02, 2016, 09:57:42 PM

If you have lots of coins in your online bitcoin wallet,will posting that address in public like forums,facebook etc make it more vulnerable to hacking?
1.Should such addresses be kept secret as much as possible to keep them away from hackers eye?
2.If kept secret,is there a way for others to know how many wallet addresses holds big amount if bitcoins?

posting a public key wont generate a private key.. but..
think about social hacking.

if someone knows u are hoarding X amount. they will want to become your friends. worse case they earn your trust so that you click on urls they send you without you checking them which leads to your computer being hacked from the virus you downloaded naively.

imagine ur going through a divorce and u are hiding the FIAT in bitcoin, but your EX knows your username. she see's you posting a address with X btc.. now she owns 50% of it Cheesy

you will get random private messages and emails from people trying to sell you fake promises, bad investments, scams. etc

if your doing something illicit. your username is linked to an address if you publicly reveal your address on a post. now authorities are one step closer to finding your real life name and home address(with some snooping of forum data and getting IP addresses)

so dont worry about someone hacking the public key.. worry about human greed and deceptive people socializing once they realize you have more then they have

that has been the case for me, i keep receiving incoming request to be a friend of someone unknown, via teamviewer and other social network, also via email, obviously i ignore eveyrone of those request

even via steam lately, all people that are 100% unknown to me, i usually decline them without thinking, i don't care about friends