But it’s not only hackers that are after your crypto. What happens if the exchange goes bust or its accounts are frozen by a regulator? Inside jobs, exit scams, Ponzi schemes, and even a suspicious death made up the lion’s share of the £4 billion loss in cryptocurrency crime in 2019.

As part of our service, we will teach you how to purchase crypto from a cryptocurrency exchange, and then safely store it on a cold wallet. Cold wallets allow you to store your private keys offline on a hardware device, in a manner that makes it impossible for anyone else to access your crypto.

You then gain access to your keys through a recovery phrase – a collection of words, that you keep safe. Our service will not include the wallet – for your security, you must always purchase a new, sealed device from a trusted retailer. 

Beware of wallets sold on websites like eBay which can sometimes have modified firmware and other security risks which can result in you losing all of your investment. 

Don’t become a statistic.

Proper storage of private keys has become one of the biggest issues in the space of late. According to a Chainalysis study from 2017, between 30 to 50% of all Bitcoin will likely be lost and out of circulation due to users losing their private keys. More recent polling uncovered that almost one-fifth of all cryptocurrency holders have lost digital assets due to mismanaged wallets.

With more than 50 million digital wallets in existence, do we really know that we’re managing them correctly?