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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: OracionSeis on July 06, 2013, 05:18:12 PM

Title: How to secure my btcs?
Post by: OracionSeis on July 06, 2013, 05:18:12 PM

Code:

C:\Users\xzzzzxczxc\AppData\Roaming\Electrum\Electrum.dat

Is this file which contains my bitcoins in my wallet? This is the file i must protect?

Title: Re: How to secure my btcs?
Post by: escrow.ms on July 06, 2013, 05:22:06 PM

Yes that's electrum's wallet file.

Title: Re: How to secure my btcs?
Post by: OracionSeis on July 06, 2013, 05:27:17 PM

Quote from: escrow.ms on July 06, 2013, 05:22:06 PM

Yes that's electrum's wallet file.

Thank you

Title: Re: How to secure my btcs?
Post by: Tachikoma on July 07, 2013, 08:18:38 AM

Although it can't hurt to protect your wallet it's not completely necessary. It's fully encrypted (I'm assuming you setup a password when you created it) and it's completely deterministic so if your disk crashes for what ever reason you can always restore it from the seed.