Antonopoulos: Your Keys, Your Bitcoin. Not Your Keys, Not Your Bitcoin
In the wake of yet another hack which rocked the Bitcoin community on a massive scale, Andreas Antonopoulos, a known Bitcoin and security entrepreneur, told Cointelegraph where it’s safer to keep your Bitcoin. “My primary goal is to ensure that none of the simple users who just need to exchange currencies are using custodial exchanges and leaving money there,” Andreas Antonopoulos says in a Twitter chat with CoinTelegraph. “It is risky, it is unnecessary and they are the least aware or capable of understanding and managing that risk. Hence the slogan: your keys, your Bitcoin. Not your....
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