If you want to be relatively certain no one is tampering with your wallet address, I'd suggest the following:
1. Fresh install of a some Linux distro
2. Fresh install of Bitcoin Core wallet (let it fully update/full node: https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node)
3. Once the wallet is good to go, power off the machine and remove it from your network
Plenty of up/down sides to all of the available cold-storage methods, but if you don't trust any third party solutions, the above is probably best for your peace of mind.
You can probably just generate an address once you've installed core, and write THAT address down on a piece of paper.
Just my 2 cents :/
Topic: Best cold storage option. - page 2. (Read 463 times)
I was considering a paper wallet until I saw a YouTube video on how they are "randomly" generated and my gut instinct is that they are insecure in the way its generated even offline. My concern is that the randomly generated wallets like bitaddress.org have pre-generated wallets that the site makers have access to and all the random typing and waving the cursor around is all a ploy to make you think it's randomly generated. I might be ultra paranoid, but what would be the most secure cold wallet? Could ledger nano s or trezor have similar security risks even.?
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