no platform should be trusted with your cryptocurrency
NONE
Use it for what it's good at - buy or trade. As soon as transaction is over - move it to fully deterministic offline wallet.
NONE
Use it for what it's good at - buy or trade. As soon as transaction is over - move it to fully deterministic offline wallet.
Seed could be a sequence of words (this thing needs to be backed up and stored safe!)
Huge advantage is that you can save the seed in safety deposit box in a bank, written on paper - totally non electronic way.
Then you can recreate wallet from seed at any time and manage your funds.
If your bitcoin private key only exists on a piece of paper and not on any networked computers, then there's no way that malware or a company being hacked or an exchange going down is going to affect its balance.