tpaine on Nostr: Depending on your level of paranoia, you cannot assume that your xpub is safe ...
Depending on your level of paranoia, you cannot assume that your xpub is safe anywhere.
A xpub is easy to spot if stored in plain file, so as long as a malicious OS process has read-access and can connect to the internet, all coinjoins are pointless.
Published at
2023-04-25 20:39:37Event JSON
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"pubkey": "587b29e526e20a8c3cc8d2a9a135d0f9d0dab0ffd922370cffac651255315c97",
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