Fair enough. If you have a full bitcoin you need a hardware wallet. Ledgers are less than $30 if Trezor is too spendy for you. Your explorations should include a look at hardware wallets also.

If you have an extra older laptop not being used and you can leave disconnected from the net you can do cold storage the old way using Electrum cold storage. Not used much nowadays since hardware wallets are cheap and more convenient, also work with your phone.

Electrum is a good desktop wallet, even better when used with a Trezor so your private keys are always kept offline.

KeepKey IMO has a security flaw in that passphrase encryption of your seed is not enabled by default. KeepKey can certainly enable passphrases but they have not. Management must have had a bad experience in the past losing a passphrase. To protect your Trezor against physical attack encrypting your seed with a passphrase is a good option, as long as you feel comfortable with it. If you lost your passphrase you would lose your bitcoin. However the seed would be worthless to a thief without the passphrase. Trezor gives you the option it is your choice. Because of the way Ledger uses a secure element passphrases are not required or needed. However you may miss the convenience of the screen Trezor provides. It is good to have choices.

Until Ether uncouples from bitcoin owning Ether is a good hedge. As bitcoin goes up Ether has been going down. Ether is not going away and as much as we love bitcoin it makes sense to own some Ether also. If you did not buy Ether when it was cheap this next week could see Ether/BTC below .02 and that would present a good buying opportunity.

Dude, storing over 23K online is dangerous. Get yourself a Trezor right away, pay for the DHL express shipping and you can have in a few days. Seriously. You can prepare yourself by reading the online user manual while you are waiting for the unit to arrive.

So far there has been a nice inverse relationship between the price of bitcoin and ether, making ether a good hedge against lower bitcoin prices. Will be interesting to see if that relationship maintains over the next week.

You should read the Trezor user manual to appreciate exactly how a Trezor works. The 24 word seed that is generated when you initialize your Trezor is the source for all your private and public keys and bitcoin addresses. As long as your seed is stored safely the longevity of the Trezor device is irrelevant. Lose it stompt it to pieces if you like. Then just recover your seed to a new Trezor and back to normal. Most folks who use Trezor keep a spare around for just that. I have Trezors that are two years old and still work fine by the way, but I certainly do not expect them to last indefinitely. The seed in effect is your bitcoin and as long as you have your seed your bitcoin are completely safe.

You can use the same Trezor for both bitcoin and litecoin and Ether support is expected as soon as Mist developers get around to integrating the Trezor API. There are other hardware wallets but I consider Trezor the most versatile.

Not safe at all. Consider a Trezor hardware wallet and protect your seed with a passphrase that you can remember. The seed is no good to a thief without your  passphrase so store your seed in a few places, safe deposit box and so on. The only bitcoin hardware wallets that support passphrase encryption of your seed at the moment are Trezor and BitLox. There are rumours that KeepKey might, but so far no joy. BitLox is a good hardware wallet but not open source and twice the cost of Trezor. Trezor support of Ether is also coming once Mist developers implement the Trezor API.

trojan.coinbitclip has low impact on Trezor see this post on reddit

Trezor has a secure recovery process. If you type your complete seed into a computer to recover into any other wallet you risk exposing the seed to a keylogger. Make sure your computer is free of malware.

If you lost your seed you best buy a new Trezor then send your bitcoin from the old Trezor to the new one before something unfortunate happens like theft or loss. Storing bitcoin on a Trezor for which you lost the seed is high risk. Not worth it.

You did write down the seed for your Trezor and keep in a safe place right? If your Trezor is lost you need that seed phrase to recover. If myTrezor.com is down briefly for maintenance you can always fire up a new installation of Electrum, select new wallet and hardware wallet, then Trezor and manage your bitcoin in Electrum.

If you have lost the seed to your Trezor you should buy a new one, set it up and send your bitcoin from the old Trezor to new one. See the Trezor user manual. Most Trezor users own more than one just in case of loss or breakage.

Never. Two choices are:

1) Old school. Use Electrum or Armory for cold storage using two computers, one online for watching only half of the wallet, the other strictly offline for the wallet and private keys. Use a USB drive to transfer transactions. Still popular with some.
2) Bitcoin hardware wallet. Trezor is the most trusted having a two year track record. Also most versatile.

If ETH/BTC on Polo approaches ATH of .0372 I will definitely go short. That is probably closest to a sure bet I can think of. Lot of holders ready to cash out who missed their chance in March.

We used to have to use two computers to protect bitcoin private keys from theft or malware. I preferred Armory over Electrum for privacy reasons but it was a royal pain to boot up two computers then use a USB drive to carry transactions from the watching only online wallet to the offline Electrum or Armory wallet to sign. Trezor changed all that. You would have to explain your position that using Trezor is less secure than the old method.

They have never been transparent and use fanboys to drum up business. Usually no one who takes time to research the competition would buy hashing from GM. You are likely to be underwater at the halving, have your contracts cancelled and there has never been a market where you can sell your hashpower. Until the halving I would not buy hashpower from Hashnest or BW either. Wait for the newest gen miners to be introduced them make a decision.

Good luck with this, you appear to be trying to use Trezor with Electrum is a way not intended by the developers. You first initialize Trezor using myTrezor.com then connect to Electrum as described in the user manual. Electrum just takes the place of myTrezor.com.

If you want one of the developers to comment you will have better luck posting on /r/Trezor at Reddit.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ is one of several good sites to browse to stay up to date on malware threats and defense.

At http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/search/?keyword=malwarebytes they have downloads for two Malwarebytes products that you can layer with your existing security programs. They have a beta of Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware (free) and also free Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit that are designed to work together. You are probably already familiar with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

I also like HitmanPro very much. It is a paid program but they give you a thirty day free trial. It was a big help when I had to help a friend scrub an infected computer.

Malware Tips also has a good guide to using advanced programs in safe mode.

Most people use Windows; OSX and Linux are the minority, it would be helpful to list ways to secure Windows best as possible. I will start the discussion if you are using Windows. If you are using Windows 7 the best advice I can give you is not to update to Windows 10. Stick with Windows 7 for improved privacy.

1) Use Firefox, not Windows Explorer or Chrome. Go to Tools > Addons > Plugins and disable Shockwave Flash to prevent malware delivered by Flash banners. At the minimum use uBlock Origin extension to block all other ad banners.

2) Use a top rated security suite like Kaspersky Total Protection. Even with Kaspersky use good hygiene. Never click on links or banners in emails or heaven forbid open an attachment. Even friends can pass on a virus or trojan by forwarding a bad email. Most malware is delivered by email, not websites.

3) If you have more than a few bitcoin use a hardware wallet like Trezor.

4) Make a system restore disc and store safely in case you have to reformat your hard disk and restore from a backup. Get a 2-5 TH backup drive so you have plenty of space for multiple backups and backup weekly.

Mycelium is a good Android wallet but it is only a matter of time until there is Android malware stealing bitcoin through key logging or transposition of bitcoin addresses. I would never store more than needed for a days shopping on Mycelium. That is just asking for theft. The good thing about Mycelium is it works perfectly with Trezor.