I just thought of something.
Order an old-school typewriter off of amazon. Now you can type up private keys and passwords right onto a piece of paper without internet.
The plus side is that it's super legible and uniform, which will make your life a whole lot easier.
The downside is that it's not on metal and can still get wet or burned.
You can always throw important paperwork in a ziplock baggie like I do, if you aren't at the stage where you need to back things up on metal yet.
Topic: how do I keep my private key safe? (Read 711 times)
Previously I used Sheets and locked it to store some things I thought were important like private keys or seed phrases but long before I got to know this forum. I am now following some of the suggestions given by some experienced people here by copying them in a personal book that I hold. I think you should try the same thing because this is also quite important, especially for online storage, it's clear that the risk is quite large in hacking, because we won't know if someone is watching our movements and trying to enter the access we have.
I think one of the safest ways is to remember them by heart. But there is a risk that you will forget them. I think the optimal decision will be to memorize some words and write other ones down so that even if someone will see them, they won't know what words are lacking.
That's not the safest way as you can lose everything by just forgetting the entire private key or the ones you decided to memorized and this means you can access your coins anymore. Even though you think you have perfect memory, don't forget you can get into an accident anytime and who knows what that'll do your brain, it could damage it completely or you won't be able to remain somethings.
Writing down your private key on a piece of paper and keeping it in a safe in your house is what I'll consider the most easiest and secure method. Even though you get rob there's less chances that the robbers will know the value of what is written on the piece of paper in the safe. To be more secure, you can write them in separate papers and hide them in different locations.
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I think one of the safest ways is to remember them by heart. But there is a risk that you will forget them. I think the optimal decision will be to memorize some words and write other ones down so that even if someone will see them, they won't know what words are lacking.
Encryption is best way to keep safe your private key like if you follow database data encryption system then you will see the general system is if you write a normal world (Bitcointalk) and if you encrypted this words then it will (cjuepjoubml) which is totally broken Words. It should be kept in such a way that no one but you can understand that word. Another problem is that when you die, your future generations will not understand. In this case your stored bitcoins or other cryptos will become worthless as no one can use it.In this case for solving this problem, It can be also a good solution for that person to use encryptions tools, there are lots of encryption-decryption tools available on the internet. I like this tool, here you can encrypt with a custom key, and also when decrypting, use that custom key or code to decrypt. - https://www.devglan.com/online-tools/text-encryption-decryption
I think one of the safest ways is to remember them by heart. But there is a risk that you will forget them. I think the optimal decision will be to memorize some words and write other ones down so that even if someone will see them, they won't know what words are lacking.
As you stated there is a risk to foget them, so it is one of the safest way to keep a private key. In my opinion, that is one of the worst methods in terms of recovery if it happens that you forgot the seed phrases of your Bitcoin wallet. And I think the most optimal dividing the private key and keep them in separate storage or file this way, your private key won't be exposed if one of the storage got breached.
i recomend paper wallet,Paper wallets involve printing out your private keys and storing them in a safe place, such as a bank vault or a fireproof safe. This method is free and doesn't require any technical expertise, but it does have some security risks, such as the possibility of the paper being lost, damaged, or stolen.
Also, better to laminate the paper wallet to prolong the ink duration. Protect the ink from fading because a blank paper wallet is no difference than losing a private key/seed phrases
i recomend paper wallet,Paper wallets involve printing out your private keys and storing them in a safe place, such as a bank vault or a fireproof safe. This method is free and doesn't require any technical expertise, but it does have some security risks, such as the possibility of the paper being lost, damaged, or stolen.
I think you storing private keys in Gmail is not a good idea at all. You should use hardware wallets or you can save your private keys or phrase in offline by writing in a diary or in a paper. And don't store your private keys offline because it can be hacked anytime.
I think one of the safest ways is to remember them by heart. But there is a risk that you will forget them. I think the optimal decision will be to memorize some words and write other ones down so that even if someone will see them, they won't know what words are lacking.
Encryption is best way to keep safe your private key like if you follow database data encryption system then you will see the general system is if you write a normal world (Bitcointalk) and if you encrypted this words then it will (cjuepjoubml) which is totally broken Words. It should be kept in such a way that no one but you can understand that word. Another problem is that when you die, your future generations will not understand. In this case your stored bitcoins or other cryptos will become worthless as no one can use it.I have wondered for long, if there is anyway to recover my private keys when they get lost or when I don't remember them. Someone advised me to use Gmail and store them as mails then I taught again, what if my Gmail gets hacked. Is this actually the best way to store them or is there any other ways I can store or Keep them safe?
You should know that everything in this world is relative, not absolute, that means there is no absolute safety method, but the storage on Gmail is really too risky. I don't know which method is most effective, but I'm saving all my seed phrases in the form of a diary and backing up them into many copies, stored in different places, and giving it to relatives.
I have wondered for long, if there is anyway to recover my private keys when they get lost or when I don't remember them. Someone advised me to use Gmail and store them as mails then I taught again, what if my Gmail gets hacked. Is this actually the best way to store them or is there any other ways I can store or Keep them safe?
if you are negligent in saving your private key then you will regret it for life, you should save your private key on paper and keep it neat and secret so that other people don't know about it, don't save your private key on your cell phone or anything that can connect to the network is not secure can be hacked by others. I think one of the safest ways is to remember them by heart. But there is a risk that you will forget them. I think the optimal decision will be to memorize some words and write other ones down so that even if someone will see them, they won't know what words are lacking.
Encryption is best way to keep safe your private key like if you follow database data encryption system then you will see the general system is if you write a normal world (Bitcointalk) and if you encrypted this words then it will (cjuepjoubml) which is totally broken Words. It should be kept in such a way that no one but you can understand that word. Another problem is that when you die, your future generations will not understand. In this case your stored bitcoins or other cryptos will become worthless as no one can use it.Hardware wallet is the only safe storage for your crypto
Non Custodial wallet and hardware wallet is totally different things. Non Custodial wallet will provide you a provate key but hardware wallet is a physical device. Op ask for a way to safe private key. So praising hardware wallets is pointless here. 
You can also use paper to keep your private keys safe and Can protect as much as possible, you can write it down on a piece of paper in a diary and store it in different places,
In the case of writing your private key on a piece of paper, there's a big possibility that you miswrite it. Instead, you can generate a HD wallet and write your seed phrase. The seed phrase consists of meaningful words and writing that is much easier than writing a private key.
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No solution is 100% perfect, writing the phrase on a metal plate and then burying it in the back garden can also be lost due to natural disasters or earthquakes like what happened in Turkey.
You can also use paper to keep your private keys safe and Can protect as much as possible, you can write it down on a piece of paper in a diary and store it in different places, thus you can keep your private keys safe from hackers. Rather, the best way is to write it on a piece of paper and keep it in different places so that even if it is lost in one place, it is available to you in another place.
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Hardware wallet is the only safe storage for your crypto
Hardware is considered to be the most secure, but you can also protect your other Wallet, Rather, try to keep your soft Wallet offline and bring it online only when needed. And don't connect everywhere.Many people connect their soft Wallet everywhere and lose all their assets in the same temptation.
I think one of the safest ways is to remember them by heart. But there is a risk that you will forget them. I think the optimal decision will be to memorize some words and write other ones down so that even if someone will see them, they won't know what words are lacking.
Trust the mind to do that kind of job is a very risky thing and as one gets old the mind forget alot of thing so if it happens that you forgot just one of the words then you have lost your wallet.
Simply engraving them in a steel plate will definitely save from all this trouble of having to memorize secret phrases. At a point in time I was using some kind of a puzzle whereby I'll take the first six words and swap them with the last six words or just swap the two middle words so that even if it comes in contact with a scammer they won't be able to decipher the puzzle but later I found out the risk involved since I'm depending on my memory, what if I fail to remember the puzzle what then will I do? That was how I stopped using that puzzle method but we still have some that are using it up till now and have never faced any issue with it.
I think one of the safest ways is to remember them by heart. But there is a risk that you will forget them. I think the optimal decision will be to memorize some words and write other ones down so that even if someone will see them, they won't know what words are lacking.
I have wondered for long, if there is anyway to recover my private keys when they get lost or when I don't remember them. Someone advised me to use Gmail and store them as mails then I taught again, what if my Gmail gets hacked. Is this actually the best way to store them or is there any other ways I can store or Keep them safe?
Don't store your private keys online, the risk of getting hacked is way too big. When it comes security we shouldn't trust the internet, better to store our private keys offline in a physical form. It depends a bit on where you live and how many people have access to your home. The easiest way would be to keep your private key on a piece of paper at home, preferably in a fireproof box where only you have the key. The problem is if you live with other people or have a lot of visitors at home, then I would advice against it. Let's say your parents have their own house with a garden, then the best way would be to write your key on a metal plate and dig a hole in the garden to hide it. Just make sure only you know where your key is hidden.
No solution is 100% perfect, writing the phrase on a metal plate and then burying it in the back garden can also be lost due to natural disasters or earthquakes like what happened in Turkey.
In my opinion, the best way is to split the original phrase into several parts and then store them on different online platforms. If we are hit by a hacker, we cannot get our seed phrases, and we can easily get them back at any time. Or we need multiple copies and give them to the people closest to us to hold onto.
A person cannot remember whole informations as brain are not active for prolong time so saving method is easy but I think that you should not save your private information in desktop or mobile phone because they they easily be hacked by another person. If you want to save your private information then just take a paper and write all the information related to your economic system or any other private sector so in this way they cannot be hacked.
By saving your personal information in online form this mean that you are offering hackers to hack your data because these days hacking is very easy. My friend's wallets regularly hacked by hackers because he saved data in mobile or desktop.
By saving your personal information in online form this mean that you are offering hackers to hack your data because these days hacking is very easy. My friend's wallets regularly hacked by hackers because he saved data in mobile or desktop.
I have wondered for long, if there is anyway to recover my private keys when they get lost or when I don't remember them. Someone advised me to use Gmail and store them as mails then I taught again, what if my Gmail gets hacked. Is this actually the best way to store them or is there any other ways I can store or Keep them safe?
Don't store your private keys online, the risk of getting hacked is way too big. When it comes security we shouldn't trust the internet, better to store our private keys offline in a physical form. It depends a bit on where you live and how many people have access to your home. The easiest way would be to keep your private key on a piece of paper at home, preferably in a fireproof box where only you have the key. The problem is if you live with other people or have a lot of visitors at home, then I would advice against it. Let's say your parents have their own house with a garden, then the best way would be to write your key on a metal plate and dig a hole in the garden to hide it. Just make sure only you know where your key is hidden.
I have wondered for long, if there is anyway to recover my private keys when they get lost or when I don't remember them. Someone advised me to use Gmail and store them as mails then I taught again, what if my Gmail gets hacked. Is this actually the best way to store them or is there any other ways I can store or Keep them safe?
If you want to store your privates key more safety that you do not want to compromise the security of your assets in any conditions. then i must say, writing them down and keeping somewhere safe is the only option that you have got. otherwise nothing is safe on digital world. no doubt how much you try not to fall prey to scam and phishing sites. But, knowledge and act of think before doing something or following someone's step. Is the main key to save your private keys. I hope you got my point.
You can read some of the following discussion to get better idea because same question has been dealt before
- How best to secure your Private Keys and/or Seed phrase
- Why are private keys safe?
- Quick advice for making secure private and public bitcoin keys for micro QR code
- How do you keep your private keys safe?
- Crypto Security - Additional Protection For Your Seed/Private Keys.
- Why would anyone want to use a paper wallet with raw private key?
- Storing private keys on servers
- How safe is to storage private keys in the cloud?
- How to safely encrypt your Private Key!!
- Encrypt private keys yourself
- Lost Half of Private Key - Are Bitcoins Safe?
From the above list i must say, you should try to encrypt your private key on your own by using some encryption methods. like Caesar etc. but that is not recommended until you have intermediate knowledge of Data security and Encryption. You should read some books to get idea and to broad your knowledge circle.
Software wallets, such as Exodus or Electrum, can be more convenient to use but may not offer the same level of security as hardware wallets.
Electrum (if it is used as a cold wallet) can provide same security as a hardware wallet. Exodus is a close-source wallet and there is no way to know how the keys are generated and whether the keys are stored on their server or not. You should avoid any close-source wallet.
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