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1  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Paper wallet question on: June 02, 2017, 06:40:17 PM
   So I`m pretty much safe, then.  Tongue
   Thanks for the answer!
2  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Paper wallet question on: June 02, 2017, 05:28:44 PM
  One final question.
  The way I did it was this: I downloaded the html file from bitaddress.org, saved it on a flash drive, moved it to a new laptop, one that has never known the internet and generated my paper wallet 100% offline. So my question is: Could the html have been infected with some malware? The PC I used to download the html was far from being freshly installed.
  Thanks !
3  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Paper wallet question on: June 02, 2017, 06:33:28 AM
   I have found a pretty neat way to acquire some virtual items in an online game and sell them for bitcoin to a guy that constantly buys from me. He sends me the bitcoin to my online wallet then I transfer them to my paper wallet. Eventually I`m going to sell them and if they`re gonna be worth too much then I intend to declare them and, pay a tax if it`s needed and that`s that. I`m concerned about my online privacy and security up untill i decide to sweep the wallet and sell them.
   I suppose it is trackable if he sends me to my online wallet and then I transfer them, but is this a security risk?
4  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Paper wallet question on: June 01, 2017, 09:31:00 PM
     I don`t want to sound stupid, I only intend to expand my knowledge of this and understand it better. Please explain to me how or why am I giving up privacy if I`m the only person sending to that address.
     Thank you so much!
5  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Paper wallet question on: June 01, 2017, 09:07:17 PM
maybe Nano Ledger is a better option, it's very simple to use and safe. If the Nano gets lost you can still recover he bitcoin with the 'seed'. I initially wanted a paper wallet, because I didn't trust electronic wallets, but a paper wallet is also risky in another way, the Nano Ledger is a good alternative.
   I considered buying a Ledger Nano before, but I found no way to have it shipped to my country ( Romania - not surprised if you`ve never heard of it ) in less than 5-6 weeks. Not willing to wait that long.
6  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Paper wallet question on: June 01, 2017, 08:57:29 PM
   Hello everybody and thank you so much for the advice. Ok I intend to do a long term storing of the bitcoin and I have no intention in spending them in the near future. My intention is to keep them stored for 1-2-3- 10 billion years, as much as I feel comfortable or as much as this continued growth of the BTC will allow me. I will be the only person sending any additional BTC I may gain in the meantime to my single paper wallet, safley stored and encrypted.
   In this particular scenario, am I exposing myself to any kind of risk?
   I did hear that is a good idea to only send ONCE and sweep the whole balance when you spend. For sure I will sweep the entire sum when I decide to do so, but in my scenario, me sending additional funds to my wallet multiple times, is a bad idea?
   Thank you again !
7  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Paper wallet question on: June 01, 2017, 07:13:37 PM
  Hello everybody!
   As the title says, I have a question about paper wallets.
   So I`m thinking about creating a paper wallet and store my BTC and I know that the private key used to withdraw the funds should only be used ONCE, I didn`t find any answer about depositing funds whenever i like, multiple times. Is it safe to deposit money into the same paper wallet multiple times? Does something else occur other than simply increasing the final balance?
   I`m sorry if this question has been asked and answered before but I cannot find that topic anywere.

If you accept multiple payments at the same paper wallet address, then you will give up some privacy.  Anyone that sends bitcoins to you will know about all the other transactions you receive at that address in the past and future.  Anyone that receives a payment from your paper wallet will know how many bitcoins you had at that wallet, and may be able to determine where some of them came from.

Additionally, in the future if you only spend some of the bitcoins from the paper wallet you should make sure that you send ALL the remaining bitcoins to a new address and not keep them at that same paper wallet.  Once you spend ANYTHING from a paper wallet, you should consider it to be less secure and should create a new one.
  Hello and thanks for the reply!
   Is giving up some privacy the only risk i`m taking in sendimg multiple times to the same address? I forgot to mention that only I will be sending funds to it, nobody else. Is it 100% safe to send multiple times in this case?
8  Other / Beginners & Help / Paper wallet question on: June 01, 2017, 01:11:23 PM
   Hello everybody!
   As the title says, I have a question about paper wallets.
   So I`m thinking about creating a paper wallet and store my BTC and I know that the private key used to withdraw the funds should only be used ONCE, I didn`t find any answer about depositing funds whenever i like, multiple times. Is it safe to deposit money into the same paper wallet multiple times? Does something else occur other than simply increasing the final balance?
   I`m sorry if this question has been asked and answered before but I cannot find that topic anywere.
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