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Author Topic: HOWTO: create a 100% secure wallet  (Read 276122 times)
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April 20, 2013, 12:12:48 PM
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very useful, looong read, but worth it
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Unlike traditional banking where clients have only a few account numbers, with Bitcoin people can create an unlimited number of accounts (addresses). This can be used to easily track payments, and it improves anonymity.
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April 20, 2013, 01:36:55 PM
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This is a great thread.  I was already using encryption and generally being really careful (I thought) despite my nearly non-existent level of coins.  But reading this has opened my eyes to a few security threats I hadn't really considered, and given me a better insight into both why and how "cold storage" is such a good idea.

Thank you, OP.

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April 20, 2013, 01:42:29 PM
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Very Good!
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April 20, 2013, 01:58:29 PM
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you can't
you must keep a backup or something.

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April 21, 2013, 06:28:53 AM
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Tanks for the information!
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April 21, 2013, 06:35:55 AM
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Bravo, much appreciated!
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April 21, 2013, 06:41:18 PM
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nice reed and funny to boot.  Cheesy

Just a question. sorry i am very new in theese thinks. my onyl worry the nowdays we can hear about lot of hackers, what if somebody break into my system and just still my wallet number? can this happen? what can you do to avoid this?
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April 21, 2013, 08:36:41 PM
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nice reed and funny to boot.  Cheesy

Just a question. sorry i am very new in theese thinks. my onyl worry the nowdays we can hear about lot of hackers, what if somebody break into my system and just still my wallet number? can this happen? what can you do to avoid this?

Well that is the point of this thread. I somebody gets a copy of your unencrypted wallet.dat they can copy it somewhere else and have access to your funds for ever Smiley. Only way to avoid that is creating the wallet on a clean installed system without a persistent file system (ie: Live CD) and copying the wallet.dat to a memory stick or pendrive that would never be use in your day to day computer.

As the objective of this is creating a savings account what you do is take note of the addresses created in the clean system and send your bitcoins to those address from your regular computer. When you want to take money from your savings account you load a clean system again (Live CD once again), load your backed up wallet.dat, send your money to wherever you want and shutdown the system without leaving a trace.

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April 25, 2013, 09:02:24 AM
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i thank you for information provided.

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April 26, 2013, 03:42:26 PM
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Thanks for this discussion. Good to know!
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April 27, 2013, 01:39:31 PM
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very helpful, thank you!
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April 27, 2013, 09:47:01 PM
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Very helpful, thanks!
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April 27, 2013, 09:57:48 PM
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Great advice, this is something that I plan on doing, though maybe not going as far as will because I will most likely have much much less bitcoins on my wallet, and as a result, it is not as much of a necessity. I however disagree with you where you said a backup is useless, because if your harddrive crashes and you only had one copy of your wallet, then a backup will be useful. It may not make your wallet any more secure, but that does not mean it won't be useful.
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April 28, 2013, 04:18:00 AM
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thanks
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April 28, 2013, 05:49:21 AM
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thanks for sharing this
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April 28, 2013, 11:51:43 AM
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Thank you very much for this helpfull informations!
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April 30, 2013, 10:08:51 AM
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Nice read. I personally have prepared an USB stick with bootable Debian pre-installed with TrueCrypt and Bitcoin.
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April 30, 2013, 10:24:24 AM
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very helpful, thank you!
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April 30, 2013, 10:33:56 AM
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Thanks for this really detailed Howto! Smiley
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May 01, 2013, 12:07:47 PM
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thanks for information
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