HOWTO: create a 100% secure wallet

[KoSoVaR]

Truecrypt or GPG works for me!

Wasn't going to read through 100 pages but this is much less tedious and just as secure.  Keep an encrypted TrueCrypt volume on the same media as suggested by Op and you basically have the same solution without the extra hassle of a LiveCD/ISO/VM/whatever you're trying to do that you're not 100% comfortable with.  I read a post on reddit just yesterday about "losing" 90 BTC and it seemed as if the OP wasn't comfortable or didn't have a clear understanding of how to do this method of a secure wallet.  I only skimmed it, but losing 90 BTC at this point sucks.

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[LeighKing]

Thank you!

[Ne5e]

Thanks for sharing the info!

[Istie]

Thx, together with the wiki link very good info!

[virtualmaster]

Thanks for the info.
 

[caujiahai]

ctually, you could do a weekly trip to the bank and put your wallet.

[Fiery Winds]

Great guide, will definitely help out a lot of people who don't realize that BTC is the digital equivalent as cash, and needs protected as such.  Myself, I keep my wallet.dat on dropbox so it's accessible from the cloud, but that's more as a "checking" account (that's empty atm).  I'll definitely use the print and lock up method for my future savings account.

[Vectra]

Great info + funny writing style. Thanks

[deadweasel]

Great guide, will definitely help out a lot of people who don't realize that BTC is the digital equivalent as cash, and needs protected as such.  Myself, I keep my wallet.dat on dropbox so it's accessible from the cloud, but that's more as a "checking" account (that's empty atm).  I'll definitely use the print and lock up method for my future savings account.

Make sure your wallet.dat is in an encrypted volume of it's own. 

[BitAddict]

Thanks for the info. Its really helpfull for us!

[discopete]

awesome post, you must protect against physical loss as well as hacking. keeping your wallet on a single laptop hard drive with no backup is just suicide

personally i have mine on a virtual machine hosted in a secure datacenter with storage on a raid array AND backed up in 2 offsite locations, i'm still paranoid about it :-)

[aslam645]

Thank you for the information. It's very useful.

[aslam12675]

thanks for the info 

[aslam174523498]

Someone needs to make a tool specifically to make it fast and easy to create paper Bitcoin wallets.

[bdebruin]

Someone needs to make a tool specifically to make it fast and easy to create paper Bitcoin wallets.

How would a paper bitcoin wallet work?

[bitcoincal]

Are there youtube tutorials for this kind of thing?

[gerrymore22]

Awesome post, thanks

[scarce]

Someone needs to make a tool specifically to make it fast and easy to create paper Bitcoin wallets.

How would a paper bitcoin wallet work?

Maybe you're looking for this: http://papercoin.org/

[cstrat]

Thanks for this!

I have got a couple paper wallets now with my monies spread across them all.

[vitalemontea]

Thanks for info