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Title: online wallet vs home computer? Post by: ThePrisoner on April 17, 2013, 05:11:36 PM At the moment, I have an online wallet at blockchain.
Is it safer for me to use a wallet on my own computer? If so, what is the best way to do that and how do I go about backingit up? Title: Re: online wallet vs home computer? Post by: deadweasel on April 17, 2013, 05:12:37 PM At the moment, I have an online wallet at blockchain. Is it safer for me to use a wallet on my own computer? If so, what is the best way to do that and how do I go about backingit up? https://bitcoinarmory.com/using-offline-wallets-in-armory/ Title: Re: online wallet vs home computer? Post by: mantler on April 17, 2013, 05:20:17 PM Safer to keep your BitCoin on your offline wallet as long as your careful, and you can back it up right from the Bitcoin-qt cliet, just click backup wallet, and choose where to save it. Preferably on a different hard drive.
Title: Re: online wallet vs home computer? Post by: skirder on April 17, 2013, 05:36:16 PM how do you go about syncing the wallet and getting the address?
Title: Re: online wallet vs home computer? Post by: DannyHamilton on April 17, 2013, 05:37:49 PM As long as you are maintaining proper backups, and using a secure enough password, blockchain.info is only slightly less secure than Electrum and MultiBit. The three of them are so close as far as security is concerned, that your particular usage habits have a much bigger effect on security than anything intrinsic to the wallet.
Assuming you know what you are doing and are careful, the most secure wallet is a paper wallet. Next would be Armory. After that Bitcoin-Qt. Then the three popular lightweight wallets (Electrum, MultiBit, and blockchain.info). The least secure of all is any "shared wallet service" such as MtGox, Coinbase, EDIT: As of 2013-04-17 BitFloor has ceased all operations. Title: Re: online wallet vs home computer? Post by: niteryder on April 17, 2013, 05:40:10 PM I just dump for cash and run.
Title: Re: online wallet vs home computer? Post by: newwt on April 17, 2013, 06:38:00 PM I just dump for cash and run. Or we can hold it for a few months and dump for even more ;) |