Crypto IS NOT SAFE! All cryptocurrency schemes and their electronic wallets are predicated on the assumption that the product of large prime numbers (or problems mathematically isomorphic to that) are intrinsically hard to factor. There has never been any proof of that assumption, and recently it has been shown to be FALSE. I wrote about this on some of the HC crypto threads with references to the relevant mathematics journals. Further, for some schemes a working "private key" can be easily found with a very high probability meaning the wallet can be drained. To top it all off, whoever controls a majority of the network (e.g. the NSA) can manipulate any transaction to anything they want it to be. But you intuitively knew it was all a trick and an illusion. Personally, I prefer precious metals as an emergency store of value. They have held their purchasing power for thousands of years and you can carry the wealth of a lifetime with you if you have to.
