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Some exchanges now use insurance funds and advanced encryption to improve customer safety. Do these protections make you feel more confident about storing assets online, or do you still prefer private wallets over centralized platforms?

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Exactly, trust has to be earned. Insurance funds are great on paper, but they usually only cover systemic platform hacks, not personal account breaches or phishing attacks.

Precisely. Insurance is a last resort, not a green light to be careless. True security means using centralized platforms strictly for trading and moving your main funds to cold storage.