Making paper wallets.

[mindrust]

You can write down your seed words on a piece of paper yourself and it will become a paper wallet. You dont really need to use bitadress as they were hacked some time ago I think. Or maybe it was the other service I forgot its name. What difference does it make if it has some art and a qr code on the paper instead of seed words?

Some people don’t even advise using printers btw.

Get some paper and a pencil, write your seed words down. No need to reinvent the wheel

[LoyceV]

Some people don’t even advise using printers btw.

You shouldn't use a "smart" wireless printer with page memory, but an old "dumb" offline printer that's connected by USB-cable to an offline system works fine. Just in case: don't sell the printer, keep it for next time.

The wallets i created using BitAddress.org were not hacked
But the ones from https://segwitadress.NOBACKLINK.org/ were
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Not sure , if the hacker left BitAddress alone because they contain 0.01 Btc only

I've never used "segwitadress".org (and I never will). There are many "paper wallet" websites out there that produce compromised private keys. That doesn't mean the site was hacked, it means the site was designed to steal. Bitaddress.org^* is the only paper wallet site I've never read anything bad about.

But my ETH paper wallets were also hacked as well as a multi sig wallet I created with Electrum

It sounds like you have much bigger problems in your entire setup of creating wallets.

I don’t trust paper wallets now

Paper isn't the problem here.

^*Make a typo, and you'll probably end up on a phishing site. Or you'll be lucky enough to get a warning: try "address" with one D for instance, you'll be visitor 3088585 to that site.

[Leahhhh]

I got hacked on Feb 12

The wallets i created using BitAddress.org were not hacked

But the ones from https://segwitadress.org/ were

Both had passwords

Not sure , if the hacker left BitAddress alone because they contain 0.01 Btc only

But my ETH paper wallets were also hacked as well as a multi sig wallet I created with Electrum

I don’t trust paper wallets now

Did your create the Bitaddress paper wallets on an air-gapped computer?

[Cricktor]

The wallets i created using BitAddress.org were not hacked

The code of bitaddress.org should be fine. I would always download and verify it from the Github page, never would I simply save the online web page and use the saved online version on an offline computer.

But the ones from https://segwitadress.org/ were

How did you create paperwallets from this website and why is "adress" misspelled? Very creepy!

Did you use the online web page? If yes, big fault.

Did you save the online web page and use it on an offline computer? If yes, you don't know if the page's code is fine, unless you thoroughly check it. I would go to their Github source page, inspect the code and see if they offer a reproducible offline version of the paperwallet page code. Better use only the code you verified (or someone else verified).

Of course you only generate a paperwallet on an offline computer which OS installation is disposable. Use a live Linux that only runs in RAM for this.

Both had passwords

I don't understand what you mean by this in your provided context.


Safe generation of good paperwallets isn't that easy as it may look at first. You can screw up at many points. Not recommended anymore, in my opinion.

[pooya87]

Both had passwords

The website you used has a brainwallet section. Did you by any chance use that with a "password" to create your private key? Because considering how it is producing your key using a single SHA256, the result is going to be the least secure key and the chances of the key already existing in some database and the funds being stolen is pretty high.
https://github.com/coinables/segwitaddress/blob/master/index.html#L426