These are a few very basic safety measures I personally take and not intended as security advice. Enjoy, stay safe!
Never store passwords, passphrases or seeds on a device, but write them down and store copies in multiple places. Try to make it look like something unimportant, like an old grocery list or a phone number you quickly wrote down. Don’t keep passwords next to the e-mailaddresses you use for logging in.
If you have 12/24 words seeds, try to memorize them. If you can’t, break them up and write each set of words on a different numbered piece of paper and keep those separately. Hiding seeds and passwords “in plain sight” might work the best; be creative.
Enable 2FA everywhere. Don’t use SMS verification. If you use a single phone for everything, get a new phone before your current one breaks.
Follow these steps to transfer your 2FA to another phone:
For better safety it is recommendable to get a separate phone just for 2FA. It does not need to be online for 2FA to work. It needs a working camera though.
No matter how big or small your crypto bags are, keep your assets on several exchanges if you trade them. This greatly reduces the chance of losing your coins. Should your account get hacked or the exchange go down - even for maintenance - you still have other places where you can continue trading.
Get one or more hardware wallets, like a Trezor or a Ledger Nano S and store coins you are holding for a longer period of time. You can use these as a piggy bank too: you can deposit while the devices are offline. Keep them in the safest place you can find, like a safe or vault that you can bolt to the floor.
Don’t tell the world that you are a cryptocurrency trader, but keep it to yourself as much as you can. Don’t talk about profits or losses in public. Update yourself on security.
