Public Wi-Fi and Your Crypto Portfolio: The Threat Model Investors Still Underestimate

02.09.2026, 16:43 intokened.com

The most expensive mistake I have watched crypto investors make in the past three years has almost nothing to do with markets. It happens in coffee shops. Hotel lobbies. Airport lounges. Coworking spaces from New York to London, Toronto to Berlin. The setting looks entirely ordinary - a laptop, a wallet app, a check on a portfolio position, a quick move between exchanges. And the network sitting beneath all of it is doing far more than routing packets.