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Title: Copying Bitcoin vs using bitcoind to send Post by: kayrice on August 14, 2012, 01:16:41 AM I'm working on a website that accepts Bitcoin payments. I've got the site separated from another user on the system that runs bitcoind and communicates via RPC. I generate new addresses and save a list of them in my own database and at sometime regularly (like daily or hourly) I want to transfer all the coins off that server onto a machine with cold storage. I run the site (and probably always will in some fashion) from a VM.
Should I be doing any direct file deletions? My goal is to minimize the amount of coins available to an attack at any given moment, much like a corner-shop does a cash drop into the safe to limit how much a common robber can take. Cheers & Thanks for advice Title: Re: Copying Bitcoin vs using bitcoind to send Post by: Revalin on August 14, 2012, 01:37:44 AM If you're just accepting payments, you don't need the private keys to be online at all. Just generate a bunch of keypairs then copy ONLY the public keys / Bitcoin addresses to the server. When people send you payments you can watch for them by address. You can then transfer the funds later using a secure PC, IE one that isn't connected to the web site at all.
Edit: Here's a useful tool to create bulk addresses: https://www.bitaddress.org/bitaddress.org-v1.6-SHA1-162d1ff4fd1e09222cbaca6c282672ee6c195e1b.html Title: Re: Copying Bitcoin vs using bitcoind to send Post by: kayrice on August 14, 2012, 02:01:48 AM Thanks! I'll probably make a script on my site that accepts a PGP signed set of public keys to be added.
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