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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin is a magnet for hackers and crooks
by
Strophon
on 28/02/2012, 21:16:55 UTC
RSantana: I don't understand; why are you keeping your wallet on your server? Shouldn't it be kept on a different machine? As a retailer, you only need to collect payment except for the occasional refund (which you can do manually), which means your wallet doesn't have to be on the server at all, right? Or am I missing something here? I thought only exchanges like Mt.Gox that have to pay Bitcoins out in addition to accepting them had to worry that much about security, because they have to actually have a wallet file on a machine connected to the server. I mean, a hacker could still put up a fake BTC address on your site if it got compromised, but that's not the same degree of problem as losing your whole wallet...