It hurts me to read news like this where users simply give their coins to Hackers yeah you are just buying and giving your hardly spend money to Hackers.
If you are serious enough to being your own bank you need to realize the importance of it. There's Joy and this is also the Biggest RISK of being your own Bank.
Let's say you have 200$ to invest in cryptocurrency for now.
i suggest you to buy put 100$ in your favourite Crypto and spend 100$ (or worth) to safe it.
And when you will have more big bucks (thousands or millions of green dollars) to invest in Crypto you will not need to spend big bucks to protect it.
For the Love of Blockchain, Enable Two Factor Authentication on everything.
Use http://protonmail.com/ — it has 2 password layers, which makes it almost impossible to get hacked.
Check out the team behind protonmail and you will get it why it's the most secure mail service available on the Internet.
Use Linux (Mint Linux)
It's easy to get a virus or Trojan Horse on Windows, while harder on Linux b'coz of system design.
You can Leave whatever you can afford to loose on Exchanges, everything else you must keep SAFE.
I am not asking you to buy A Hardware Wallet (well you should) But please learn the basics and learn why it's safe to use a computer which never been connected to internet before, for generating a new wallet.
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