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Topic: help me choose a good wallet for windows - page 2. (Read 1809 times)

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November 01, 2012, 12:01:03 PM
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You always have to balance security and convenience. Blockchain.info has a good web wallet with quite a few security features and good backup and Electrum is also supposed to be great and has no synch.

I just noticed that you said hundreds of bitcoins  Shocked My advice is to use some kind of stronger storage for most of those coins and transfer just a small amount to use in a spending wallet. In fiat terms think about it like having a bank or safe and then a carry around wallet with a few dollars for spending.
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Ian Knowles - CIYAM Lead Developer
November 01, 2012, 11:33:46 AM
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My advice would be to at least consider using a second OS (preferably non-windows) for generating your private keys that is never connected to the internet.

You could then consider dividing your 100/200 btc into 10/20 separate addresses (generated by say "vanitygen") on the non-internet computer and use a USB flash drive (that is brand new) to move private keys to your connected PC as required,
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November 01, 2012, 11:24:23 AM
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I would like to purchase some coins soon and I'm now trying to figure out which wallet to install. I'm running Windows XP with MS Security Essentials and ZoneAlarm.  My requirements for a wallet are

-should be easy to use
-should support strong encryption
-should take less than 10 minutes to set up
- should be open-source, secure and stable (I'm planning to store 100 to 200 btc in it and make daily transactions)

Any advice?
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