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by blantonl 964 days ago
Yeah, I like to leave my Rolex Rose Gold GMT out on my nightstand when service people are working in the house to detect suspicious activity in my household. :/

Sorry man, I dunno if this is a weird flex or what, but it's kind of ridiculous to leave $15K of bitcoin as a canary for your password manager. Gotta call a spade a spade.

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It all depends on how costly the fallout from a compromised password manager would be - 15k can be totally reasonable insurance policy if the other credentials in there could give them access to multiples of that?
Why do 15 when $100, $250, or $1k would do the same trick?
Yeah, I like to leave my Rolex Rose Gold GMT out on my nightstand when service people are working in the house to detect suspicious activity in my household. :/

i don't think that is a bad idea . It can be a cheaper one or a replica. The idea is it's a small price to pay when being deceived costs far more

I think he is being sarcastic. Emphasis on the “I think” part.
Assuming the bitcoin is held as an ‘investment’ anyway, is it really that much worse for it to held on a password manager as opposed to an exchange?