Well dang you absolutely make some awesome points! Can't find a single thing you said that I disagree with. It's a shame I guess. Perhaps this is all just a much slower process than I imagined it would be. I absolutely have used Coinbase and still do so often LOL. I know I should use cold storage. I do have a hardware ledger wallet that I have not used in a bit as well. I guess I just use Coinbase because I sort of lie to myself and say I'll use cold storage one of these days. It is comforting to know that if I so choose I could move the funds over to cold storage. I don't know LOL. I suppose yes the point is pretty valid that the funds would be hard/impossible to recover if keys were lost. I guess this is simply the risk in a tech that is pretty new and one of a kind. Hmmm. You bring up good points.
Yeah the Lambo people are a bit annoying. I am on the spectrum there more or less. I would categorize myself as a 'let's have a decent, much less stressful life, maybe own an adequate property' crypto person lol.
Thanks for your well thought out comment! Definitely thought provoking.
cold storage would be the way to go for ultimate security but I also have never done that. I don't really have enough of it to be super paranoid about it. I have unfortunately gotten involved with exchanges that were attached to a phone OTP system and the phone died and then I had no way of getting back in there. I have since become a lot smarter about all of that though. Live and learn!
Dang, sorry to hear that. Yeah, I definitely get what you mean by live and learn, trial and error. I'm the king of screwing up sometimes, but gotta take some risks sometimes!