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by aledujke 2728 days ago
But to steal millions from those people you need a lot more resources and a risky plan. Whereas to steal BTC from someone like you, you need a wrench to the head for some convincing, like in the linked comic.

I mean to steal millions from someones bank account you need them at the bank and even then you get a trail from bank transfer to another account etc. plus the bank could reverse transaction when police gets involved. While if they can access your wallet they can transfer anonymously to another wallet that no one knows who it belongs to.

So the person you are responding to has a point, I think.

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No, this is paranoia to the extreme.

Nobody is going around hunting down people living in western countries to steal their Bitcoin.

This meme of "Don't Tell anyone that you own Bitcoin !!1!1" only exists because Bitcoin people are usually libertarian/paranoid to begin with.