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slaxman on March 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Flexcoin is shutting down

So, is keeping a majority of bitcoins (>98%) bitcoins in cold storage the only way to keep them safe?

infinii on March 4, 2014 [–]

If they secured their servers (from hacking), they could theoretically leave everything in hot storage (although it's not necessary for normal operations as others have stated).

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