How do you store your private keys

[bitcoin-shark]

i keep my private keys on the computer (i know it's risky) and another copy on a usb stick...

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[gloana]

I keep my private keys on the computer (s ) and several backups on USB/Flash/external HDD. Paperwallet may be the safest from all but when you need to move coins every now and then you always have to import the paperwallet to a place where you can move the coin. Maybe Hardware wallet is also a good option, where supported.

[baiwei]

I substitute the private keys i have i do store it in one device whit a sd card and i have another device that keeps tha keys to my private and personal keys, i do suvh us copying thos to store in another device because it is important and its to risky to keep jn only one device.

[knuckey]

in a long term investment, I prefer to keep it in a paper wallet and back up in an external hard disk. but for daily trading or short term investment, I prefer to keep it in a smartphone, which is only specifically used by me to store private keys, personal data, google authy and personal email (I don't use it for other activities).

[Iykecollinz]

Seems I am one of those doing something odd with the backing up of private keys, actually aside storing on pc and external notepad, I equally store in on Google drive though the Google account is not one I use on public places and known to anyone

[Coin BTC]

Personally I do prefer storing my keys offline to prevent third party Acess and also incase of computer hard disk breaking down.

One may ask, are paper wallets safe enough from relatives and friends?

My reply is that I have developed my own language whereby I represent the vowels in the alphabets in other to with some special characters which only myself, I mean no other person can interpret.


How do you save yours?

Yes. Your way may be safer, especially if you use words that others cannot interpret. But it also has the possibility that we will forget what we wrote. I prefer to save on a computer, and be protected from virus attacks.
Besides that, I backup it on a flashdisk, if my computer has a problem, I still have a private key backup.
If the problem is lack of trust with people around us. That depends on with your are friends. so we have to worry about it.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

Saving it at email, phone storage and other thing that can be connected to the internet it is not save. You can't feel comfortable when you store it on these things. I just print out my private keys and save it in my room, since there only a few people who know cryptocurrencies so for now I'll comfortable to do it. They will not know about it although I put it on my computer desk, I was hacked a few times with the reason the hacker know my priket and at that time I only choose email or my computer to save my private key but after that I never save it again, just print out and so far my wallet is really safe.

[@prashant]

It is always preferred to safe your private key in hardware wallet but you can also store them in computer in encrypted form if you have less fund , generally people wallet get hacked from computer bcz of their own mistake only bcz they download software from torrent which may contain malware or spyware that steal your keys other than that if you use pc normally nothing will happen and do not use your private key in untrusted site , carefully look domain.

[MikeyVeez]

Do not store it on devices that are connected to the internet, but also it is not the best to store it on paper. Paper may burn or get wet.
The best place where to store your private keys is a hardware wallet.

[hrunya102]

Especially important private key i recorded on paper, and changing some characters, but always need to check this simbol in memory, this is important.

[[btc]YSG]

Personally I do prefer storing my keys offline to prevent third party Acess and also incase of computer hard disk breaking down.

One may ask, are paper wallets safe enough from relatives and friends?

My reply is that I have developed my own language whereby I represent the vowels in the alphabets in other to with some special characters which only myself, I mean no other person can interpret.


How do you save yours?

I store my private keys offline, and online double layer password encrypted archives or zip, I store them offline for more security and online for easier access in case I lose them in my offline back ups.

[MMA Rats]

I don't have a lot of money on my wallet, so I keep my wallet key on a regular flash drive, I've got enough of that.

[pakdemaco11]

I save privatekey and the password in flasdisk. and save it also on Google Drive to protect if there is damage to my disk. I also protect privatekey by using winrar + password to open it.

[BitcoinPanther]

This is a good strategy and I think not only you is doing this. Even I, have tried this and it is kinda refreshing to know that someone is doing the same thing that I do.

But still I urge you to make other strategy on securing your account. Offline wallet is also a great idea because everything on the net can be access by hackers. Secure it on a safe place that no one will know aside from you.

[andra73]

In my opinion, it doesn't save on devices that can be hacked by anyone through the internet or others. save it offline, offline even the device can be damaged, save the private key to your own memory with the key you only know, and have a backup key so that when you forget we still have a backup like save on removable storage

it seems like it's too complicated, and not many people do that. hacking is very possible, but I don't expect it. and the system of the wallet that we have is actually safe, but how do we make the potential for hacking reduce. like wallet use for some mining sites that are scam.

[valuater]

Easy way does not install any malicious application and the rest install security applications such as antivirus and if you are a web wallet user do not use it again, but switch to using the application, for example, if using myetherwalletqx because it is very safe and the rest use the official application and that is enough to secure privatekey from the hacker / scammer

[key4co.in]

Obviously the best way to store private keys is offline. Personally I put it on paper and photocopy as backup.  Storing private key on emails, cloud storage and other online facilities is highly risky. This is because if security is breached for such online platforms, your data might be compromised and you know what that entails.
 

[bastian466]

Only kept in a private record that is locked tightly offline so that friends cannot find out and all applications use fingerprint, face and code fitting so I think it's safe for the key and most importantly don't use keys on other devices carelessly and be careful  against fake websites

[Bitcoin Smith]

Personally I do prefer storing my keys offline to prevent third party Acess and also incase of computer hard disk breaking down.

One may ask, are paper wallets safe enough from relatives and friends?

My reply is that I have developed my own language whereby I represent the vowels in the alphabets in other to with some special characters which only myself, I mean no other person can interpret.


How do you save yours?

I don't have any special language,will just save them in a place where no internet is connected by this m data will be safe and secured.

[sukoyomi]

Me, I just keep the private key through my computer and back it up to my flashdisk just in case there is damage to the hard drive. It has been 5 years, just keep it on computer but there's no issue. Never see my funds missing. So, in the end it's about how we deal with this secret data. Fake website? phising? trojan? malware? never seen it, I think it just a myth.