Where do you keep your private keys?? I need good ideas!!

[bitmover]

Hello guys!

I wanna hear your opinions about that.
Where do you keep your private keys? In a safe? In your pocket? In your mind??

My private keys are just in the drawer as if they were worth nothing lol

I was thinking about buying a safe, but I think that big, so hard to hide, and just to store one piece of paper?

Give me ideas please =D

[gentlemand]

Txt files in an encrypted folder on multiple SD cards.

I wouldn't do a safe. I certainly wouldn't leave it in a drawer either. With a card you can bury the file in a mountain of others, tape them in obscure places, hide them creatively, split the keys between different cards.

No doubt certain cards will fail over a long period of time so you want multiple redundancy. And you only want to create them and open them on a machine that's never seen the internet.

If I did only have paper I wouldn't want it where I lived. These days safe deposit boxes are really hard to find so I'd prefer something I can create myself that's easily hidden.

[Yakamoto]

Hello guys!

I wanna hear your opinions about that.
Where do you keep your private keys? In a safe? In your pocket? In your mind??

My private keys are just in the drawer as if they were worth nothing lol

I was thinking about buying a safe, but I think that big, so hard to hide, and just to store one piece of paper?

Give me ideas please =D

You're overthinking it, you can be successfully storing your private keys by putting them onto a USB (or a few USBs) and them putting that USB into a small, fireproof safe, and maybe making a couple copies of that USB and storing them in other locations as well. Write it down on some paper if you think there's a real risk of someone trying to snake your information with a virus or whatever. There's no harm in doing something like that and having multiple backups is the best thing you can do since it's all gone if you can't get the information back.

[atrocityx]

Hello guys!

I wanna hear your opinions about that.
Where do you keep your private keys? In a safe? In your pocket? In your mind??

My private keys are just in the drawer as if they were worth nothing lol

I was thinking about buying a safe, but I think that big, so hard to hide, and just to store one piece of paper?

Give me ideas please =D

I have built a trap door in my desk that is almost impossible to find and open unless you know what you're looking for along with my nano ledger..

I have another copy of everything in safety deposit box at the bank.

I have another at a family member who will be the executor of my will, and knows the information they will eventually need to get the stuff and disperse it in case of my death (although they don't have the hidden part as of now.. only someone else knows where the trap door is but that person doesn't know how to read my chart of keys (I have it all encrypted in the way its layed out on the sheet.. it requires a slight change which is simple to figure out if you know what the change is, but almost impossible with out the piece of information that only one knows..

It all seems overly complex but you wan't to make sure your hiding place is in line with being discovered with all the missing pieces in the event of you passing away.. but you don't want before passing away for the people to easily steal from you without the other (just in case one person decides to steal from you, you can still have the other protecting you).

[Bervelukan]

To save the key I prefer to store it in a computer program or store it on my mobile phone, and to keep my storage device lost, I also keep it on paper to keep the bad things going on in storage or when we forget our keys.

[JebediahBullfrog]

Txt files in an encrypted folder on multiple SD cards.

I wouldn't do a safe. I certainly wouldn't leave it in a drawer either. With a card you can bury the file in a mountain of others, tape them in obscure places, hide them creatively, split the keys between different cards.

No doubt certain cards will fail over a long period of time so you want multiple redundancy. And you only want to create them and open them on a machine that's never seen the internet.

If I did only have paper I wouldn't want it where I lived. These days safe deposit boxes are really hard to find so I'd prefer something I can create myself that's easily hidden.

Exactly this. Although I do keep a copy or two in my safe, also a few spread between houses of family who know not the slightest about crypto, just to keep the SD & seed node papers safe.

[1nvestments]

Hello guys!

I wanna hear your opinions about that.
Where do you keep your private keys? In a safe? In your pocket? In your mind??

My private keys are just in the drawer as if they were worth nothing lol

I was thinking about buying a safe, but I think that big, so hard to hide, and just to store one piece of paper?

Give me ideas please =D

I got a copy of one of my addresses that contains 5 BTC at my mom basement.

[Manoharachan]

To save the key, we must be really careful and careful, I prefer to save in computer files or storage on smartphone, to get more quickly when we need.

[hilman89]

Good morning !
if I keep my private key in various places. My personal key copy into a paper then save it in the wallet. there is also a sya save in my account email n there is also a sympathetic note in the file stored on my laptop. a bit complicated too but that's for personal safety.

[armandoz]

May idea is you can put your key in area of you belt. create a hole that can allow to put  key near in  your backel. because your always on your and no one will think that you have key is on  you belt. Or you can put beside of your shoes jleader just make a pocket that fit your key.

[asu]

You can write your private keys to paper but make sure you will keep it and stay away from your children. Sometimes they used at a scratch paper but if the children found out its nothing so sometimes they throw it up. So for me for the safety of your private key just store it to your notes in your cellphone all of my documents are store in may cellphone and my cp is with me everywhere so if I need it I just open my phone only.

[StayFly]

I store my private keys on a flash drive and also made some few backups as well in case if I lose the drive or got stolen. 😂

[cissrawk]

I print and write it on paper, After that i keep it on my wardrobe and one on my private box. Also i take screenshot from my mobile phone too and change the format from *jpg to another format. Atleast it will be safe in my case.

[turagsoy123456]

Hello guys!

I wanna hear your opinions about that.
Where do you keep your private keys? In a safe? In your pocket? In your mind??

My private keys are just in the drawer as if they were worth nothing lol

I was thinking about buying a safe, but I think that big, so hard to hide, and just to store one piece of paper?

Give me ideas please =D

I have already make some back up files of my private keys, i have a soft copy of my privaye keys i save it in my personal loptop, celphone and usb. Its is better for us that we have keep some back up files in our private keys account.because we cannot open our personal wallet account if we have lost or forgot our private keys.That's why we have to keep it safe.

[Wexnident]

Hello guys!

I wanna hear your opinions about that.
Where do you keep your private keys? In a safe? In your pocket? In your mind??

My private keys are just in the drawer as if they were worth nothing lol

I was thinking about buying a safe, but I think that big, so hard to hide, and just to store one piece of paper?

Give me ideas please =D

Certainly, the best and safetiest way of storing  the private key  is to put only in your mind. In this way you can surely protect and secure your private key. Only you should know this, you can't misplace it and no one can stall it. Probably  you can also store it into the place and/or in the things that very important and memorable to you. Therefore , you could easily remember where you storing i

[s2sallbygrace]

Hello guys!

I wanna hear your opinions about that.
Where do you keep your private keys? In a safe? In your pocket? In your mind??

My private keys are just in the drawer as if they were worth nothing lol

I was thinking about buying a safe, but I think that big, so hard to hide, and just to store one piece of paper?

Give me ideas please =D

before, I made a back up copy of my private key and sad to say the only copy I have was accidentally deleted on my computer by my daughter. Right now I make sure to have a couple of copies on a flash drive, sd card, on my email, and on my mobile phone. This way I think my private keys are safe and I can have a copy of ever I lost or accidentally delete it in my computer again.

[Jeepney_koh]

Hello guys!

I wanna hear your opinions about that.
Where do you keep your private keys? In a safe? In your pocket? In your mind??

My private keys are just in the drawer as if they were worth nothing lol

I was thinking about buying a safe, but I think that big, so hard to hide, and just to store one piece of paper?

Give me ideas please =D

Keeping your private key in secured and safe place is necessary. However, don't be too scared in your storage that someone may steal it. If you will just keep your private key in your phone with password then it is safe,. If you keeo it in your room, lock it and your safe. For me, I keep it it my email, that no one could hack or open it because it is a secret email.

[prix]

I keep all my keys in the password manager database. The database is encrypted. And I add another level of security - store it in the 7z archive with password.
And I sync it with clouds, mobile devices, etc. Also you can send a copy to the e-mail server, relatives, etc.
The main thing is not to forget the password for the database and archive .

[jtipt]

I wanna hear your opinions about that.
Where do you keep your private keys? In a safe? In your pocket? In your mind??

I don't really store the private keys, but the 12/24 word seeds. Like your Priv keys my seeds are also lying in my drawer, and honestly it's pretty much safe there other than you count for it being destroyed in house fire or something. Theft is not really a concern.
 

My private keys are just in the drawer as if they were worth nothing lol

This is a good idea, but keep multiple copies because you don't want to lose them or get damaged. Theft wouldn't be a concern because a thief isn't going to give second thought to a piece of paper kept in a drawer, but if this paper is in a safe he is certainly going to think it's important and take it, even if he doesn't realize it's a private key.

[Random Seller]

You don’t have to be a genius nor do you need any special methods to store your private keys. Pen and paper is fine.

That’s what I learnt from watching Andreas. Here’s the link of the video if you need it:
https://youtu.be/vt-zXEsJ61U