Serious question. My baby niece will be 1 year old in a few weeks and she's going to get lots of lovely and expensive presents from all the family, but I'm her geeky aunt and I want to encourage her geeky side. I'm considering making her a vanity address , printing it on a paper wallet and funding it with some bitcoin, in the hope that by the time she's old enough to appreciate it, the value might have appreciated also. But I have some concerns...
Is a vanity address sufficiently secure if I generate it and the paper wallet offline and assume my computer has no malware? (I have enough antivirus/anti-malware software in action and really, if I do have that level of malware, I'm screwed anyway)
And the impossible question... is bitcoin a reasonable risk for such a long term investment? If she's 1 now, it could be 15 years before she accesses the funds in that wallet. I won't be able to sell out if I see a crash coming like I can with my own. I know nobody can really judge what Bitcoin is going to do over that period and I don't want this to turn into yet another one of those speculation threads where people post crap. So I guess my real question here is has anybody else done this or put bitcoin in cold storage for a similarly long period?
And are there any other considerations I haven't thought of?
Its a good thing to give bitcoin for a Baby, even though the baby don't know about your gift which is bitcoin, in the meantime when the right time comes for the age of the baby I think the price value of bitcoin is for sure is very stable and has a fix amount of price.
