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Originally Posted by facialfreak
Lets say I have no intention of 'mining' coins .... and I am not running the CPU-intensive SETI software, where do I keep my coins then??
Also ... what would stop a cyber criminal from "stealing" your wallet.dat file?? I mean they can steal banking info off your computer (which is supposed to be "secure" ...), Why can they not steal your wallet.dat file??
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You don't have to mine. It's purely optional.
If your computer is holding your wallet.dat and it is hacked, you now have a duplicate wallet file "in the wild". It's like me making a copy of your credit card. If you catch the hack fast enough you can quickly spend all of your coins to another computer. This would make the other copy of your wallet.dat obsolete.
