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June 16, 2017, 01:21:37 AM
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I am about to buy 1 BTC. I need to know the best way to store it and also some insight into doing it. Thanks. Also where can I buy digibyte it's at a real low right now might invest a cheeky 50 and just hold it forever
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June 16, 2017, 01:39:57 AM
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I am about to buy 1 BTC. I need to know the best way to store it and also some insight into doing it. Thanks. Also where can I buy digibyte it's at a real low right now might invest a cheeky 50 and just hold it forever

If you don't plan to transact often, the best way to hold your bitcoins would be in cold storage. A light weight client which supports cold storage is Electrum. Read this to find out about cold storage using electrum.
http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/coldstorage.html
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June 16, 2017, 01:40:18 AM
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If you can, I highly recommend you to buy a hardware wallet, mainly if you are planning to store big amounts of Bitcoin in there.
Here are the most recommended ones:

https://trezor.io
https://www.ledgerwallet.com
https://www.keepkey.com

If you can't, don't want or don't have the time to buy one hardware wallet, you should use an offline wallet like:

Electrum - https://electrum.org (recommended)
Bitcoin Core - https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/ (may take some time to sync with the blockchain and will use a lot of space on your hard drive)

Never store your Bitcoins in a web wallet. Preferably use your wallet in a isolated device not connected to the internet if you want to be 100% safe. Or if you think that's too overkill, just make sure your computer isn't infected with any virus that may steal your Bitcoins.

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June 16, 2017, 05:18:05 AM
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Paper wallet... Print, laminate 2 or 3 copies and store in different places. My problem with these hard wallets is that they can only be stored in one place. If something happens, e.g house burns down. Then you are screwed.
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June 16, 2017, 05:20:43 AM
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the best and the fastest for me is to simply store the wallet.dat in a usb stick, and put it in a safe place, then buy many of those usb just in case one of them will broke you never know

and store your bitcoin in multiple part of 0.1 maybe with multiple wallet, you can them load safely on any machine, at worst only 0.1 will be lost
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June 16, 2017, 05:36:47 AM
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If you can, I highly recommend you to buy a hardware wallet, mainly if you are planning to store big amounts of Bitcoin in there.
Here are the most recommended ones:

https://trezor.io
https://www.ledgerwallet.com
https://www.keepkey.com

If you can't, don't want or don't have the time to buy one hardware wallet, you should use an offline wallet like:

Electrum - https://electrum.org (recommended)
Bitcoin Core - https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/ (may take some time to sync with the blockchain and will use a lot of space on your hard drive)

Never store your Bitcoins in a web wallet. Preferably use your wallet in a isolated device not connected to the internet if you want to be 100% safe. Or if you think that's too overkill, just make sure your computer isn't infected with any virus that may steal your Bitcoins.

This is quite expensive in opinion but it is also worth it. It is even more worthy if you have thousands or even millions of dollars value of coins. For me for the meantime, i am using electrum wallet. I just see to it that I have may backup of my private keys for safekeeping.
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June 16, 2017, 05:46:02 AM
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Paper wallet... Print, laminate 2 or 3 copies and store in different places. My problem with these hard wallets is that they can only be stored in one place. If something happens, e.g house burns down. Then you are screwed.

buy a fire evident physical coin to store your funds instead, then even if your house went on fire and burned up, your coins would remain safe. it is still preferable to have a requirement of combining 2 or 3 addresses in order to reveal the actual address you have stored bitcoin in.

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June 16, 2017, 06:16:43 AM
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I am about to buy 1 BTC. I need to know the best way to store it and also some insight into doing it. Thanks. Also where can I buy digibyte it's at a real low right now might invest a cheeky 50 and just hold it forever

I do not think it should be too much. if you are going to keep some bitcoin in a long time you just use the blockchain wallet in your funds to be stored safely. Just use a security touch like 2fa or code. It will connect to your phone number, and simply backup your blockchain data in your personal storage, I have been storing my bitcoin in blockchain for many years and safe until now.
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June 16, 2017, 06:17:17 AM
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Just put your cryptocurrencies into sites or wallets that you have the control to your private keys so you will not face any kind of problem in the future. Most of the times wallets now are open-source and also give chance to its users to control their private keys so you will not experience such a hassle to find good wallets to store your cryptocurrencies.

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June 16, 2017, 06:25:15 AM
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YOu can either use paper wallet or hardware wallet like trezor to store your bitcoin for long term but if you can't buy or can't wait till trezor get delivered to you. Just use paper wallet, you can generate one from bitaddress.org (use their github file) in offline computer.

If you are talking about DGB, you can buy it from poloniex.
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June 16, 2017, 06:30:28 AM
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Not sure about it, but have been suggested with few wallets that are good for specific purposes. Blockchain wallet is suggested for storing bitcoin. It gives good security and for ethereum blockchain based coins it's suggested to use myether wallet as the best web wallets.
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June 16, 2017, 06:43:49 AM
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if you intend to keep the BTC as they are for a very long period of time, then the best option would be a paper wallets with multiple copies, kept in safe and secure sites, can even add a password to make sure it wouldn't be an issue if one fell into someone else's hands (although unlikely).
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June 16, 2017, 10:31:21 AM
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I am about to buy 1 BTC. I need to know the best way to store it and also some insight into doing it. Thanks. Also where can I buy digibyte it's at a real low right now might invest a cheeky 50 and just hold it forever

what coins you want to save? do you want to use stand alone wallet or multiple wallet which can save more than 5 coins? where do you want to use the wallet, is it in your pc or your android phone? my suggestion is you can use coinomi because that wallet have many option crypto currencies and digibyte is listed too in that wallet and for buying digibyte, i think you can buy it in the market and then you can send it into your coinomi digibyte account.

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June 16, 2017, 10:45:21 AM
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I am about to buy 1 BTC. I need to know the best way to store it and also some insight into doing it. Thanks. Also where can I buy digibyte it's at a real low right now might invest a cheeky 50 and just hold it forever
I use hardware wallet to keep most of coins and some in various wallets(for spending) like mycelium, electrum. i think you can do the same, buy a hardware wallet for about $100(trezor) and use different wallets/paper wallets.
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June 16, 2017, 10:49:51 AM
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if that is just 1 btc and you are planning to use it for trade might be possible to download lite wallet and store it there, so you have the access and you can use it smoothly just keep reading those information that had been shared inside your thread and coming from it you will see what would be the convenient way to store your btc.

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June 16, 2017, 10:50:38 AM
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I recommend you to get separate clients for each crypto that you want, if it is a large volume. I just switched to Electrum from a Web Wallet which recently had issues, so you can check that out. Smiley

Here is a good site to find out which wallet you prefer: Bitcoin Wallets

For altcoins like ETH, WAVES, DGB, I am sure they have specialized wallets that can be found easily, try to avoid storing them in an exchange site. If you want to, remember Cryptsy? Smiley


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June 16, 2017, 10:58:36 AM
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I am about to buy 1 BTC. I need to know the best way to store it and also some insight into doing it. Thanks. Also where can I buy digibyte it's at a real low right now might invest a cheeky 50 and just hold it forever

With the August 1st deadline looming on us I would advise not to store your coins in a exchange, you should store your coins in a wallet that give you private keys, best would be a paper wallet http://toppayingsites.net/tutorials/how-to-use-paper-wallet-bitcoin/ I am following this tutorial, note this tutorial is not created by me, so any doubts ask out there. Choose your wallet really carefully it's scary times these days and if you don't have a private key, you could have a problem.
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June 16, 2017, 11:16:42 AM
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I am about to buy 1 BTC. I need to know the best way to store it and also some insight into doing it. Thanks. Also where can I buy digibyte it's at a real low right now might invest a cheeky 50 and just hold it forever

store at the place where you buy it from if not plan to trade with it, simple as that. if buy from coinbase then leave it there, it's more secure than these crap third-party wallets which can disappearing or hack.

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June 16, 2017, 11:28:26 AM
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I would recommend hardware wallet is the safest choice if your having good amount of bitcoin . If moderate amount and go with paper wallet and laminate and keep it. If it is very less and blockchain.info is better 
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June 16, 2017, 11:37:45 AM
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You can either get a hardware wallet or print a paper wallet. Hardware wallet is advanced form of paper wallet.
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