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Title: Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage - Best Option? Post by: TechnoBibble on December 27, 2014, 09:09:41 PM Hi, I have read some reviews on site and had a look around for info, There is plenty off it but so many mixed reviews.
I am wondering the best way for cold storage? What is the safest way? I was personally thinking about just writing down the private key on paper and ensuring that I dont lose it, having a copy at my house and a copy at my parents (who know nothing of bitcoin) and deleting the digital wallet, This way my coins can not be stolen by some scammer. Does that sound like a good option to people. As I am just hoarding my BTC until the price goes up and dont want to spend any. Title: Re: Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage - Best Option? Post by: BittBurger on December 27, 2014, 09:11:53 PM Ignore the myriads of peple who are going to chime in below me with UBUNTU and ARMORY and etc etc etc. Well dont ignore them if you're highly technical.
The safest, easiest, and most effective cold storage is very simple: bitaddress.org Wanna be extra safe, download their source files (link is on the home page) to a USB and run the webpage on a laptop that's never been online. Bip38 option. Pick a passphrase. Generate. Print (or write it down, but be careful). Bank Safe Deposit Box. Done. -B- Title: Re: Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage - Best Option? Post by: CoinRocka on December 27, 2014, 09:19:26 PM Ignore the myriads of peple who are going to chime in below me with UBUNTU and ARMORY and etc etc etc. Well dont ignore them if you're highly technical. The safest, easiest, and most effective cold storage is very simple: bitaddress.org Wanna be extra safe, download their source files (link is on the home page) to a USB and run the webpage on a laptop that's never been online. Bip38 option. Pick a passphrase. Generate. Print (or write it down, but be careful). Bank Safe Deposit Box. Done. -B- Buy a Trezor. Write the seed down and store via Bitt's advice above. Title: Re: Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage - Best Option? Post by: inBitweTrust on December 27, 2014, 09:20:09 PM Two most relevant threads to answer all your questions:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=899253.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=858604 Title: Re: Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage - Best Option? Post by: moni3z on December 27, 2014, 09:25:19 PM Definitely download that script and generate it locally https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=bitaddress.org that site should use portable LibreSSL as a drop in replacement for OpenSSL.
wget http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/ latest version ./configure make make install. Will fix all those SSL errors. Title: Re: Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage - Best Option? Post by: TechnoBibble on December 27, 2014, 09:26:41 PM Thank you for all your helpful replies and links to the most relevent topics
Title: Re: Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage - Best Option? Post by: Meuh6879 on December 27, 2014, 11:52:25 PM only need wallet.dat
bitcoin core will live for ever ! (even macosx can't do this ...) Title: Re: Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage - Best Option? Post by: bf4btc on December 29, 2014, 12:45:23 AM Ignore the myriads of peple who are going to chime in below me with UBUNTU and ARMORY and etc etc etc. Well dont ignore them if you're highly technical. The safest, easiest, and most effective cold storage is very simple: bitaddress.org Wanna be extra safe, download their source files (link is on the home page) to a USB and run the webpage on a laptop that's never been online. Bip38 option. Pick a passphrase. Generate. Print (or write it down, but be careful). Bank Safe Deposit Box. Done. -B- Buy a Trezor. Write the seed down and store via Bitt's advice above. Your best bet is to somehow generate a private key on a computer that has never been connected to the internet nor will be connected to the internet until the funds from the private key it generates has been transferred to another address Title: Re: Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage - Best Option? Post by: TechnoBibble on December 29, 2014, 12:58:48 AM Ignore the myriads of peple who are going to chime in below me with UBUNTU and ARMORY and etc etc etc. Well dont ignore them if you're highly technical. The safest, easiest, and most effective cold storage is very simple: bitaddress.org Wanna be extra safe, download their source files (link is on the home page) to a USB and run the webpage on a laptop that's never been online. Bip38 option. Pick a passphrase. Generate. Print (or write it down, but be careful). Bank Safe Deposit Box. Done. -B- Buy a Trezor. Write the seed down and store via Bitt's advice above. Your best bet is to somehow generate a private key on a computer that has never been connected to the internet nor will be connected to the internet until the funds from the private key it generates has been transferred to another address Thanks, for added security would it be at all any value to get a hardware RNG to help with such a task, or the fact it being an offline computer good enough security? Title: Re: Hardware Wallets/Cold Storage - Best Option? Post by: bf4btc on December 29, 2014, 01:08:19 AM Ignore the myriads of peple who are going to chime in below me with UBUNTU and ARMORY and etc etc etc. Well dont ignore them if you're highly technical. The safest, easiest, and most effective cold storage is very simple: bitaddress.org Wanna be extra safe, download their source files (link is on the home page) to a USB and run the webpage on a laptop that's never been online. Bip38 option. Pick a passphrase. Generate. Print (or write it down, but be careful). Bank Safe Deposit Box. Done. -B- Buy a Trezor. Write the seed down and store via Bitt's advice above. Your best bet is to somehow generate a private key on a computer that has never been connected to the internet nor will be connected to the internet until the funds from the private key it generates has been transferred to another address Thanks, for added security would it be at all any value to get a hardware RNG to help with such a task, or the fact it being an offline computer good enough security? |