Help me test BTC, LTC, ETH addresses

[juan.g71 at gmail.com (juan)]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:34:32 -0400
John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:


> Iâ??ve been using electrum on android and Linux for the past 18
> months or so, and can only second Juanâ??s recommendation -
> itâ??s worked quite well for me. Thereâ??s even a â??bitcoin atmâ?? near
> my house where you can deposit cash and specify a wallet 
> address (or scan a qr code) - although I havenâ??t used the atm
> since prices got above 1k/btc, so itâ??s been a little while ;)


	For completness' sake I guess we should mention that one has to
	be reasonaby sure that the machine running electrum (or other
	client) isn't 'compromised' / has some sort of coin stealing
	malware. 

	Also, best practice is to have most of your funds in cold
	storage. 

	https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage



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> >>  I have decided that at least for a few months,
> >> placing this on Coinbase is a reasonable compromise.  I am not
> >> aware of of an impending liquidity problem with Coinbase.  There
> >> are other considerations. 
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> >    I don't know about coinbase's liquidity, but it is a fact that
> >    they close accounts whenever they feel like it. But maybe they
> >    won't close yours since spying on you is valuable to them. 
> > 
> >    Anyway, best of luck!
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> > Jim Bell
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