I appreciate what you're saying Chick, and I don't think anyone here wants to go back to hoarding mountains of cured meat and trading only for goats whose teeth you can look at.

Or for that matter, cash in a mattress.

But I honestly don't know the answer to whether BTCs should be stored on your own box or online. Both methods have taken a real beating lately. The Mt.Gox troubles and the bitcoin trojan are flip sides of the same security coin.

PayPal and your bank have both billions to throw at security, and deposit insurance.

So it's all Buyer Beware right now, and I took AngstHase's comments in that light. He's just picked a side of the 'reasonable paranoia' debate you don't agree with.

That being said, thanks for standing up for nuanced reasoning.