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https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/29948/why-doc-says-importing-private-keys-is-so-dangerous
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/18619/why-so-many-warnings-about-importing-private-keys
behave un-intuatively
'giving' a key to someone still means you have it
change addresses / paper wallets
address reuse (privacy)
a lot of human copypasting can often result in a screwup
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