Coincheck's president, Koichiro Wada, has said that the company used
the less secure wallet «due to technical reasons and understaffing.»
Not exact matches
Increased levels of anonymity, faster and
less expensive transactions, integrations with
secure hardware
wallets, and
less accessible attack vectors for black - hat hackers are all part of the advantages that can come from decentralized exchanges.
Similar to a mobile
wallet, though, they can be
less secure and it's best to use these in conjunction with a more
secure wallet where you store the majority of your funds.
Conversely with the software
wallet, web
wallets permit you to get to your bitcoins through web with the way that there will be
less effort for you to
secure your
wallet.
Of those considering a trip to Europe, 36 percent say they protect their money by wearing a fanny pack or neck
wallet at all times; eight percent say they have taped cash to their body, and three percent bring their own safety deposit box — all methods that are far
less seamless and
secure than digital payments.
Just to repeat what was said before — any of online
wallets is
less secure compared to local
wallets, but there are pros and cons.
Software
wallets are always online and are
less secure than hardware
wallets.
Software
wallets, by contrast, are usually free and easily accessed though, ultimately,
less secure.
Businesses
less reliant than exchanges on fiat - crypto gateways, such as merchant services and
secure wallets, and the ASIC hardware manufacturers keeping China's booming mining operations equipped, are reportedly shrugging at the bank bans and pushing on with their growth plans.
Currently, it is more inconvenient and
less secure than copy - pasting a QR code from Mycelium or another mobile
wallet into telegram — if the bot goes down, if their accounting server gets hacked, or an exploit is found in Telegram's API, Their system fails, whereas the QR code method's only disadvantage is that the person you want to transact with knows one of your Bitcoin
wallet addresses.
A hot
wallet may be considered
less secure, due to its online connection.
Although paper
wallets are just as
secure if created correctly, TREZOR may be better than a paper
wallet for
less technical users.
In general, online
wallets are considered to be
less secure than offline
wallets.
Online
wallets are, in general, considered to be
less secure than offline
wallets, such as hardware
wallets.
Open source
wallets allow third parties to review their code in its entirety, meaning that if there's anything amiss, it will be widely reported; traditionally cryptocurrency users feel
less secure when they use
wallets with proprietary code and they can't see what's under the hood.
Coins.ph is a mobile
wallet and online
wallet hybrid — as in, no passphrase,
less secure.
Online, or «hot»,
wallets are
less secure due to the threat of hacking.
MEW offers the ability to create
wallets and initiate transactions completely offline, which is more
secure but
less convenient than going through a web browser.