Encrypting Bitcoin Wallets - Reading Assignment

Bitcoin Attacks
#282

no one can enter your wallet and steal your private key cause it is encrypted
No one can take your money by access to your pc files.

#283
  1. It’s important to make your wallet secure.
  2. Attacker could spend your funds if they get access to your pc with an unencrypted wallet.
#284

  1. Why is it important to encrypt your wallet?
    To protect your wallet from hackers who might have gained access to your device.

  2. What is the risk of not having a password if an attacker gets access to your file system?
    They can access your wallet.dat file and spend all your coins.

#285

1. Why is it important to encrypt your wallet?
To ensure that only you have access and controll of your wallet.

2. What is the risk of not having a password if an attacker gets access to your file system?
The attacker has access to the wallet.dat and can send the stored coins to a wallet of his choice.

#286
  • Why is it important to encrypt your wallet?
    So no one else except yourself can have full access to your funds
  • What is the risk of not having a password if an attacker gets access to your file system?
    The risk of losing all your funds
#287

  1. Because the wallet.dat file that holds your digital BTC keys is not encrypted by default. You would need to implement proper security to safeguard your sensitive data on your pc to prevent others from accessing and spending your digital funds.

  2. An attacker/hacker would have full access to your funds and spend it as if it was their own.

#288

It is important to encrypt your wallet to stop them from being spent without your permission. Encrypting your wallet with a passphrase means that if someone gets access to the device the wallet is on they would also need to have the passphrase.

If an attacker gets access to your file system they can spend your Bitcoin immediately if it is not encrypted.

#289
  1. To protect my cryptos assets. 2. That they can steal my stored cryptos.
#290

1. Why is it important to encrypt your wallet?
To prevent exposure of your private keys.

2. What is the risk of not having a password if an attacker gets access to your file system?
Having no password would make a wallet vulnerable and easy for an attacker to gain access of your funds.

#291
  1. Since is directly related to the wallet security, encrypting it is a critical measure that should be taken by all Desktop/mobile wallets users.
  2. By not using a password as an additional security measure, you are exposed to a much higher risk, because anyone that gets access to your system can access your key very easy.
#292

1. Why is it important to encrypt your wallet?

It is important to encrypt your wallet so that a malicious entity could not access it if in the event where it gained access to your file system, where your wallet file is stored.

2. What is the risk of not having a password if an attacker gets access to your file system?

Not having a password would make your wallet and its private key (and the funds in it…) vulnerable to be accessed and sent away. Which, effectively, would be a complete loss of those funds.

#293

1- They can steal your wallet.data.
2- They will steal your funds.

#294

  1. It is important to encrypt your wallet to secure your bitcoin. By default, the base wallet.dat file is not “protected” and allows anyone who gains access to your device to do what they wish with the contents of your wallet.

  2. Whoops. I kind of already answered above, but to be more succinct. Without a password/security in place, any malicious actions can be carried out with very little preventing them from occurring.

     i.e. hackers stealing your hard-earned satoshis
#295

  1. so mo one can use it and spend your crypto currency. In case of an attack on your PC or phone since its the eallet.dat file is not encrypted by default.

  2. the attacker can spend the money instantly

#296

  1. It´s important because if somebody now your privet key that its saved in the file “wallet.dat” can steel all your crypto that you have in your wallet.

  2. The risk is that you can lose all your crypto saved in the wallet.

#297

1. Why is it important to encrypt your wallet?

It is important to encrypt the wallet so that even if an attacker were to gain access to the device on which your crypto wallet is running, they would not be able to do anything with the funds unless they also had your passphrase.

2. What is the risk of not having a password if an attacker gets access to your file system?

If the attacker gets access to the file system and the wallet.dat file is not password protected then the attacker can spend all the funds from the wallet.

#298
  1. If you don’t encrypt a file, someone could easily access my file (using a key logger to find out my password log in for my pc, then adding a virus through a USB.) he could easily take my walled.dat file and run with my bitcoin. EASILY.

2.If he gets to my file system, he would have to get through an encryption if I have it encrypted. If I don’t have my password, I don’t have an encryption to decrypt. So, no password = no encryption = life easier for hacker.

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#299
  1. So funds are SAFU - Only person that can access the funds is myself.
    2.The risk would be loosing everything stored in the wallet address, which is not recoverable.
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#300

1. Why is it important to encrypt your wallet?
If someone can get acces to your files they are still unable to get your private key.
2. What is the risk of not having a password if an attacker gets access to your file system?
They can steal your funds if they get in your file system.

#301
  1. When your wallet is encrypted it locks your coins.
    The wallet.dat is not automatically encrypted.

2.Without a passphrase, through phishing, your wallet is
open to attacks. With a passphrase you lock your wallet.