I get meme’d on for telling people that plaintext private keys are bad.
But here we are in 2026, and I’m still fighting people saying it’s ok to do so, while key leaks were the #1 source of hacks last year.
Let me explain the common rebuttals I get and why they are wrong.
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Author: Xie Zhaoqing, Tencent Finance "Deep Dive" The cryptocurrency market has given back all the gains brought by Trump's inauguration, experiencing an epic crash that has brought back the word "risk," temporarily forgotten by greed, to stare at all investors with its most menacing face.

Over the past week, Bitcoin experienced its biggest weekly drop in three years. February 5th was an unexpected day for crypto market investors: Bitcoin fell by 13%, marking its largest single-day drop since June 2022, and briefly dipped below $61,000 in the early hours of February 6th.

In this sharp correction...

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Ho Chi Minh City is officially entering a new phase in its digital finance development strategy as the Ho Chi Minh City Digital Asset Investment Fund is launched with the ambition to reach a scale of 1 billion USD in subsequent phases...

Ho Chi Minh City launches a $1 billion Digital Asset Fund, aiming to become a "financial hub" for investors.

Original article | Odaily Odaily(@OdailyChina)
Author｜Azuma (@azuma_eth)
In 2014, CZ, who had only been exposed to the concept of cryptocurrency for a year, made the most daring investment of his life—selling his apartment in Shanghai and "All In" on about 1,500 BTC for a three-figure price. Twelve years later, if CZ had never sold, this investment would have brought in a substantial profit of hundreds of millions of dollars (peak return of about $189 million).
Compared to the later establishment of Bina...