Security thread (Dumb edition)

[Anonymous No.9140418]

I've seen people posting their deposit addresses left and right on this board.

How unsafe is this?

[Anonymous No.9140436]

>>9140418
Prime example, the one guy who posted his metamask wallet here the other day and had his funds stolen. How does that even happen?

[Anonymous No.9140439]

>>9140418
it's called a "public" key for a reason. it can be known to the public....

[Anonymous No.9141463]

>>9140439
That's why I'm confused. How does one even go about accessing that person's wallet? That doesn't make sense.

[Anonymous No.9142274]

>>9141463
if he's dumb enough to do that he's prolly dumb enough to leak more information either by accident or by social engineering (hack) from another person. Have you ever tried scamming a noob on runescape? It's not hard

pasting public addresses in general isn't dangerous, its only dangerous when you reveal more information such as this address is this public figures main btc address etc... you can generate an address anytime and dispose of it anytime so when people post an address its usually a recently generated one. You can publicly look up every single address on the blockchain, theres nothing stopping anyone from doing that. Also if you're generating a private key (ex, paperwallet) on your pc make sure to disconnect from the internet while doing it

[Anonymous No.9142315]

>>9142274
Never a problem if you stop being cheap and buy a damn ledger