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I moved mine to my own wallet on Electrum https://electrum.org/#home
As a side note, does anyone have a suggested wallet for storing ether?
"What happens to your bitcoins in case of a chain-split?" https://blog.trezor.io/trezor-advisory-uasf-chain-split-fork...
Move it to a hardware wallet. "What happens to your bitcoins in case of a chain-split?" https://blog.trezor.io/trezor-advisory-uasf-chain-split-fork...
I cannot find it on-line - but I have received a following message from Coinbase ( ): """ Dear Coinbase Customer, The User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) is a proposal to increase the Bitcoin block size scheduled to activate on August 1. The UAHF is incompatible with the current Bitcoin ruleset and will create a separate blockchain. Should UAHF activate on August 1, Coinbase will not support the new blockchain or its ass…
Both this email and the blog post make it sound as if Coinbase support the Core side, i.e. the UASF.
Can someone explain what I'm missing?
[0] https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-conse...
I cannot find it on-line - but I have received a following message from Coinbase ( ): """ Dear Coinbase Customer, The User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) is a proposal to increase the Bitcoin block size scheduled to activate on August 1. The UAHF is incompatible with the current Bitcoin ruleset and will create a separate blockchain. Should UAHF activate on August 1, Coinbase will not support the new blockchain or its ass…
You don't have bitcoin on Coinbase you have an entry in a database that says Coinbase owes you X amount of bitcoins. Yes it's a little more complicated than that but the analogy still stands. Coinbase is a hosted wallet with no key control meaning that you do not have any control over the transactions of that wallet. The other aspect of Coinbase is a nice interface for the GDAX exchange with about double the fees. In…
p.s. I studied computer science, am reasonably fluent in computer security, but not a crypto or bitcoin expert.
You don't have bitcoin on Coinbase you have an entry in a database that says Coinbase owes you X amount of bitcoins. Yes it's a little more complicated than that but the analogy still stands. Coinbase is a hosted wallet with no key control meaning that you do not have any control over the transactions of that wallet. The other aspect of Coinbase is a nice interface for the GDAX exchange with about double the fees. In…
What is a good way to create a personal bitcoin wallet? p.s. I studied computer science, am reasonably fluent in computer security, but not a crypto or bitcoin expert.
Some self-education links at the bottom as well.