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Setting up a hardware wallet safely: the first 20 minutes
A hardware wallet is only as secure as its setup. Five steps you should not get wrong on your first try.
Samuel Okoye
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Security
The crypto space is a battlefield.
What this section is for
Here you learn to defend your assets before somebody relieves you of them — seed, wallet, scams, cold storage. We write for the real thing, not for the feeling of safety: what an attacker actually tries, how to recognise them, and which small habits decide the outcome when it gets tight.
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Securing your seed phrase: the one step almost everyone puts off
Twelve or 24 words decide who controls your entire crypto holdings. How to store them without losing them — and without ever handing them to someone else.
Your seed phrase belongs offline and physically backed up: handwritten on paper to start, stamped on metal for meaningful amounts, in at least two separate secure locations. Never as a photo, in the cloud, in a password manager or in a chat — and no one, no "support" included, ever has a legitimate reason to ask for it.
Petra Stahl
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How to spot the 7 most common crypto scams of 2026
Crypto fraud is an industry now — with call centers, AI and off-the-shelf toolkits. These seven patterns are behind most of the losses. Knowing them is how you stop falling for them.
Femi Adler
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Spot a phishing message: the four-question check
Many crypto thefts start with a message that looks real. Here is how to unmask it before you click.
Femi Adler