A lot of problems out there arise due to viruses on the computer hard drive makes the wallet installed in it vulnerable to attack. Therefore, I suggest separating wallets and PC, which are often used for browsing to avoid or at least provide security.
Buy hardware wallet is the best choice, but when you don't have enough money to buy it?
I think we can use USB Flashdrive to make a portable operating system included Electrum wallet.
What we need?1. Tails Os - download
https://tails.boum.org/install/dvd-download/index.en.html2. Rufus - download
https://rufus.ie/3. A USB flash drive a minimum of 8 Gigabyte (fat-32 formated)
How To Install?a. inject your USB flash drive into PC
b. Open Rufus
- 1. USB flash drive will automatically be detected when Rufus application has ready
- 2. Click select and choose where your file downloaded
- 3. Move your cursor to make persistent partition size
- 4. (Optional) Labeling your USB flash drive
- 5. Click start
- 7. Reboot your PC while push esc button on keyboard (depends what PC are you using. sometime f9 and f11) then booting with USB Flashdrive
- 8. Star your tails and wait for a while.
- 9. let's make configuration your system like a persistent password. This important part to safe your data because tails os won't keep your setting when you restart it.
NOTE: This is a crucial thing to keep and encrypted your data on persistent. also, you have a choice to enable or disable it.
By the way, Tail OS has already installed an electrum wallet, but not recommend because we can't verify it.
https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tails.htmlSo how to use wallet?, You have to download again electrum wallet at the official website and verify it.
1. Open
https://electrum.org/#download and download App image Linux
2. Appimage file will save on
Tor Browser folder
3. Verify download - (scroll down official electrum website, you can find how to verify your download).
4. Move your Appimage file into persistent storage. See the image below.
5. Right-click file and Tick "
Allow executing file as program"
6. We have finished here. To open an electrum wallet, double click Appimage and use electrum ussually.
source: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-docs/blob/master/tails.rst Note: Your setting and password won't save, so be careful, keep your essential data file into persistent volume.
Disclaimer: This for education only, I am not part of Tails and rufus. when you want to try and use it do with your own risk.