Personally Identifiable Information online - Be mindful of your history

After 10 years on Reddit, I destroyed my account. It had a lot of karma and a lot of memories.

Every day here there's a "don't tell anyone how much crypto you have," post. This is a very good policy for real life. But far more important for the Internet is your digital exhaust. I never posted my HODLings. But I did post on wsb about my equities trading and history as a hedge fund portfolio manager. And that might imply something about my crypto.

So, after I'd notified the fourth or fifth person who posted too much in their history (e.g. location, holdings in r/FIRE, photos of their face, and in two cases, information suitable for extortion), I took a hard look at my own profile, and my (old) user name could be traced to other accounts with even more data. I destroyed those, but the digital exhaust remained in google's search history. Thus this account was created with a burner email and fresh user name.

TLDR: Just because you don't say "I have XX" coins, doesn't mean your profile doesn't say a lot.