Separate Computer for Bitcoin/Financial Information vs Personal?

[seoincorporation]

A good solution for you will be Virtual machines. You can install VMware for virtualization and a Linux virtual machine for porn purposes... that way if you get any kind of virus or malware it would be easy to delete the virtual machine and install a new one. Even you can clone the virtual machines, that way you don't have to install the SO each time you think you get hacked.

Another computer is a good solution too, but virtual machines is the free way to solve it.

[hemzer]

I have a laptop that i do everything on.  Basically use it for anything financial related such as bank accounts, electrum wallet, bitcoin wallet etc.  I stream youtube, watch sites etc so far with no issue.  My issue though is i like to watch porn.  Now i do watch porn through those streaming sites like xvideos, porhhub etc which doesn't seem to give me any issues.


The other thing though is i like to download porn from sites online.  Reason is because these videos you cannot stream it through pornhub, xvideo etc.  The other thing is i like to click on preview images of porn pictures.  I always done this without any issue.  But i was told that clicking on links are not really safe since a porn link for an image could cause a virus.



Basically the big main sites.  I was told in those forums... links for porns and images are usually very safe as long as the posters who posted it are long time posters and have a lot of likes by other members.  I believe they said a lot of these links are looked at by the site in case there is a virus, it would get deleted.  Of course someone who posted the video that is safe could later edit it etc.



I assume anyone here that has a laptop that does that bitcoin and financial information... you have separate computer for that... and one for your porn and other stuff?  By other stuff that means like downloading torrents etc.  I read someone mentioned that he downloaded some video game that was pirated and all his bitcoins got lost because of that.  That the uploader put a trojan/virus etc.  I don't download any torrents at all.  I do however like to download porn videos from depositfiles, rapidshare etc.  I also do make sure those posters are long time posters.  But i also like to download certain videos in another forums where even though they maybe long term posters, i dont know if videos are safe or not.   I have so far when downloaded those videos... haven't had an issue in a while with my laptop due to this.  Such that i use it for banking with no issue.


But i have not done this with a bitcoin wallet on my computer.  Does anyone here have advice on this?  I'm sure many of you like to download porn, click on images whether its porn or something else or download torrents etc.  Is it always a bad idea if you do this on your laptop where you have bitcoins stored?   I read any exe file is very bad.  Then again how would i even know a file is exe.  Couldnt it be another file but its really exe?


Also if this thread is not put in the right subforum, can it be put in the correct subforum?  I believe it does belong on bitcoin discussion though.

OK, I know its a bit outdated but Tails OS can help you with that.

[acquafredda]

Bitcoin wallets store the private key(s) which are the only source to manage your btc wealth and are lucrative targets for external attackers. Losing possession of the private key, an external attacker basically owns the BTC in the compromised wallet. Managing bitcoin wallets offline, in isolated air-gapped computers, it has been suggested to increasingly reduce private keys leakage that can lead to theft.
If the above holds true, I would never suggest anyone to deal with bitcoin on a device, computer, mac, phone you name it which is also used for other activities.
That is not very wise. There are many guides available on how to properly manage bitcoin privkeys, search for them.

[BitcoinzB]

I often find myself thinking about a simple thing; If you have gold or anything valuable, you're locking it up in a safe. Same with money, you don't keep it all in your pockets, you store it in the bank. You should do the same with bitcoin, either get a dedicated machine or keep it stored in a cold wallet.
Why risk it?

[Kittygalore]

I often find myself thinking about a simple thing; If you have gold or anything valuable, you're locking it up in a safe. Same with money, you don't keep it all in your pockets, you store it in the bank. You should do the same with bitcoin, either get a dedicated machine or keep it stored in a cold wallet.
Why risk it?

I think that OP knows what to do with it, this thread is 5 years old and I think that there isn't nothing new to advice to OP. That is like the basics of not getting broke easily, diversifying your storage to make sure that when one is compromised, you won't worry about your whole wallet getting stolen.

[jerry0]

Well i heard lot of ppl use a chromebook or separate computer for doing financial and banking transactions.  So wouldn't this be more the same but much more important?


Do you think a separate computer should be used solely for crypto?  My thoughts are you should use your main computer for your financial and email and daily things. 


But anything else... like imagine streaming sites, that should be a completely separate computer.  Thoughts on that?  I mean youtube is safe for you main computer but not streaming etc.  I feel like using a chromebook for anything else like downloading files/videos and streaming makes more sense than using it for a financial computer etc.