Don’t Leave Your Honey in the Pot: Protecting Your Crypto Assets After Purchase

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One of the most difficult things for a new cryptocurrency investor to initially get to grips with is the extent to which YOU are the sole custodian of your new asset. It’s completely different from having funds in a bank, for example, where you are a customer with rights and protections. And the first lesson you need to learn is: do NOT leave your coins hanging around on the exchange where you bought them! There are a number of reasons why you don’t want to do this: Firstly, exchanges can get hacked.   Cryptocurrencies are booming, and they’re big news. They’re…...

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Maya Middlemiss Maya is the managing director of BlockSparks, a creative communications agency for the blockchain space. Her background includes journalism, research and user experience, and she's obsessed with future technology, and this combines with a desire to tell the story behind a project and bring it to life for readers. She is a productivity geek with a butterfly mind, continually scanning for the latest app or device or methodology which will make her location-independent life complete. She wants to make the future more evenly distributed, by exploring what’s going on at the leading edges - and testing them to destruction where required.

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