While this is very convenient, it's also very dangerous: if this email address gets compromised, many of your online accounts are in danger of being compromised as well.
Just for fun, enter your email address on this website and see if you get a red or green result: https://haveibeenpwned.com
Green is good news.
If you get a red “Oh no - pwned” result, though, scroll down to see which services you subscribed to with this email, that had data breaches.
This is what came up for one of my email addresses:
We should be very protective of our personal data and passwords anyway, but especially in Cryptoland, this is even more important.
Most of us in the crypto world are fans of decentralisation, however when it comes to our own day to day information management we still prefer some level of centralisation it seems - otherwise we would all have different email addresses for different purposes.
Maybe you already do this, but chances are there's room for improvement.
Here's a suggestion for separating your different email accounts:
Email addresses are free to set up unless you want more bells & whistles than the basic features. Do not use Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail addresses for crypto exchanges or any important personal information.
Get a new email address from either of these two privacy & security focused email service providers:
Both offer optional end-to-end encryption in their free versions.
This may feel inconvenient at first, but it's not something to take lightly.
All of the above goes for your passwords as well, of course.
There are many password managers like LastPass.com to help you remember and manage your passwords from everywhere.
Make use of them, if your crypto savings are important to you... :)
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