Saving Bitcoin to USB for security purposes.

[WorrenBuffert]

I think it's better not to put all your egg into one basket. You should have two, three or four wallets and you should put your coin into all those wallets too.

Good Idea. I'll just make a new wallet.dat every time my wallet gets up to like 5-10btc or something. Then I can have a drawer full of USB sticks with 5-10btc on each one.

Anyone got some tips on how to make sure my computer/wallet doesn't get compromised. Is Norton internet security going to be enough to protect me? Should I have a dedicated computer to only deal with bit coin transactions and use it for nothing else?

[seniorcitizen]

You might want to consider encrypting your wallet and putting it into an encrypted container before putting it on the usb stick. An alternative is encrypting your wallet in an encrypted container and uploading it cloud storage so there is no risk of losing the usb stick.

[zero3112]

+1

[Stack]

I think it's better not to put all your egg into one basket. You should have two, three or four wallets and you should put your coin into all those wallets too.

Good Idea. I'll just make a new wallet.dat every time my wallet gets up to like 5-10btc or something. Then I can have a drawer full of USB sticks with 5-10btc on each one.

Anyone got some tips on how to make sure my computer/wallet doesn't get compromised. Is Norton internet security going to be enough to protect me? Should I have a dedicated computer to only deal with bit coin transactions and use it for nothing else?

If this is what you intend on doing, you should also dump them all onto an external drive, or a second usb stick (use some sort of labelling convention so you can match them up).
And store it in a seperate room/drawer as a backup. It would be a shame if an environmental factor destroyed or corrupted all of your usb drives.

[sgh858]

You might want to consider encrypting your wallet and putting it into an encrypted container before putting it on the usb stick. An alternative is encrypting your wallet in an encrypted container and uploading it cloud storage so there is no risk of losing the usb stick.

I actually did this, in a little different way. I emailed myself the container in the attachment .