Hello everyone.
I want to know which are safest wallets to store/Hold our bitcoin ?
Thank you
Eventough this question has been asked several times before, it's to important not to answer it this time:
From safest to least/safe (imho)
- [SAFEST] Latest version of bitcoin core, nonhd, on an airgapped pc running an up-to-date linux distro. Make sure you use encryption, and make sure you backup the wallet.dat on an offline device
- [REALLY SAFE] Latest version of electrum on an airgapped pc running an up-to-date linux distro. Make sure you keep the seed phrase safe! I'd suggest encrypting the seed just in case somebody finds it
- [REALLY SAFE] Properly generated paper wallet, bip38 encrypted, generated using a strong RNG on an offline machine, printed on an offline printer
- [REALLY SAFE] A hardware wallet, i personally have a ledger and a trezor, both work fine... Just keep them regularly updated and make sure you store the seed in a safe place
- [RELATIVELY SAFE] A recent desktop wallet on a clean PC, only use wel-vetted open source wallets tough! And make sure you download them from the correct place!
- [UNSAFE] An online wallet (this includes blockchain.info)
- [REALLY RISKY] Using an exchange/gambling site/... as a wallet
Next time, use the search function tough!
