Should you keep your crypto with your exchange?

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Or move it to a wallet you control? Kreaan Singh, founder of crypto education platform CoinEd and project manager for distributed ledger technology at the CSIR, argues there is a time to keep your coins on the exchange, and a time to move them to self-custody.
3 Jul English South Africa Tech News · Investing

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