This needs a sticky, cause the prevention should be as a WHOLE.
What keeps allowing your money: To have the option of being stolen from BITCOIN EXCHANGES.
YOU ACCEPTING FIAT CURRENCY.
YOU HONORING A SYSTEM BUILT BY THEFT since the IRS & CENTRAL BANKS STOLE THE AMERICAN GOLD in 1910's.
How to prevent your loss & theft?
Generate a ton of Paper wallets offline. Don't trust anyone with a wallet generator who's to say they aren't recording the data generated on their network website. TRUST NOBODY while the WIFI/CORD is or WILL BE CONNECTED IF EVER, and has the ABILITY TO SEND HIDDEN LOG/KEYRECORDING AFTER it detects a NETWORK CONNECTION. EVER.
Next, to do that you will need the proper tools.
This makes those hardware wallets look like shit. This is TRUE EXTREME SECURITY. MORE SECURE THEN THOSE BILLIONARES BUILDING UNDERWATER SAFE HOUSES with PRIVATE KEYS.
Get a fresh booted os on a USB key.
Do not enable any Wifi/Network Support. You can even do with an OLD PHONE without a SIM CARD IN IT from a FACTORY RESET. LOAD UP THE PAPER WALLET GENERATOR somehow in your OLD PHONE/OS.
RE-VERIFY THERE IS NO "NETWORK CONNECTION EVER. *TOP SECURITY*
GENERATE YOUR PAPER WALLETS. Whatever way you like. Write them down each one will need. Plan it out.
AFTER YOU DO ALL THAT WORK.
DESTORY AND RE-FLASH, FDISK, REPARTION, LOW LEVEL FORMAT
WHAT MADE THOSE WALLETS. TWICE to SEVEN TIMES.
GOOGLE BRAIN WALLET.
TAKE YOUR NEW PRIVATE KEYS
REPEAT steps 2-6 again for SALTING BRAIN WALLETS KEYS.
Example:
Take your Brain wallet private key
Slap that into your salt key input
Send that at least 2 or 3 email boxes. Like Gmail don't use just one. Do 2FA whatever you want.
If your gmail is compromised they won't know its salted. They got a private key = 0 funds.
Now not only is your private key protected, its re-encrypted to another private key, hence. Your first wallet has your money. Our hacker or thieves will look at the wallet private key of your salt address... and notice: ITS EMPTY.
If they can't unlock the salted wallet key. There is no way they will EVER GET NEAR YOUR REAL KEY.
Whenever someone asks you "How much bitcoin you have?" Answer : NEVER ENOUGH for a Big Mac.
Use smaller past generated paperwallets to take advantage of the Lighting Network with no transfer fees.
Learn to KNC and barter at 1 satoshi = 1 usd. Make a agreement with your new found contact to accept business at those prices between you both, without TAX BULLSHIT MIDDLEMAN REPORTS.
The usg can't track a fucking dollar bill. How can they track that then? Unless you tell them they have to incriminate you. How do you find out if they are. "Are you working or being paid by any Government Agency or Bank Agency" Have them sign it, and to really piss them off it.
Get it notorized before you even do any business.
Trading is freedom of Expression.
Taxing is also a Expression.
Your allowed to express your right to exclude Tax protections "For Use".
You are given in USA the constitutional rights to provide your own "Self Arm Bearing" use.
This is how you #stronghodl.
#hodl is a weak term.
#stronghodl is like a giant nebula of stars which a intergalatic castle of blackholes that defy all logic.
This is where you put your worth into.
This is why you DON'T USE DOLLARS & EXCHANGES.
Satoshi will and is the NEW DECENTRALIZED FINANCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD, they ( IMF, SBI, CENTRAL CARTELS will refuse to give up 8000 years of fraud but will lose the WAR. Criminalize it, your criminalizing my expression of not doing business with you. Sorry that's called COMPETITION. Eat shit.
Honor your:
#KNC Know new customers
#KYC Know your connections
#HYC Honor your contracts.
#LEGO Lock Every Government Out
Bitcoin is about taking back our rights too judge self monetary policy( As police OUR SELVES )
After doing all this: IF YOU LOSE YOUR BITCOIN.
ITS YOUR FAULT, and ONLY YOUR FAULT.
IF YOUR GONNA PASS AWAY, or FEEL LIKE -PASSING YOUR TORCH ON-
GIVE HINTS, TEACH this again.