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Re: The Harsh Truth: Losing Your Keys Means Losing It All Are You Ready?
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Z-tight
on 04/07/2025, 08:13:32 UTC
You know what the harshest truth is? Majority of those who have Bitcoin don't even have the private keys with them.
That is very true, they store their funds in centralized exchanges and custodial services because they think they do not have what it takes to be their own bank, despite all the events that has happened with exchanges, they still believe that some exchanges are too big to fail.
Doing 3 backups already reduce your chance of losing it all significantly.
Having more than one backup is great, but what's most important is the location where you store these backups, it has to be in different locations and these locations have to be safe. In other words, if you have two locations and you only one of them is considered safe, it is better to have only one backup in the safe location.