Topic: How do you store your private keys (Read 1520 times)
External hard drive and notebook, I have printed keys, passwords, phrases and I put that in my notebook. Two places are safer than just one place, it`s how I see that. If something happens with one of them I always have back up. I learned that in crypto, you always need to have back up, whatever you do, only then you can say that you are safe.
I saved it in a sheet on Google. and I made backups on files that I saved on Google and on my computer. I might have to worry if anyone intends to steal or hack my email or Google might abuse their policies. but until now I think everything continues to be safe.
Personally I do prefer storing my keys offline to prevent third party Acess and also incase of computer hard disk breaking down.
One may ask, are paper wallets safe enough from relatives and friends?
My reply is that I have developed my own language whereby I represent the vowels in the alphabets in other to with some special characters which only myself, I mean no other person can interpret.
How do you save yours?
One may ask, are paper wallets safe enough from relatives and friends?
My reply is that I have developed my own language whereby I represent the vowels in the alphabets in other to with some special characters which only myself, I mean no other person can interpret.
How do you save yours?
I think paper wallets are not safe, because we are not only guarding against theft, we also have to guard against the effects of water, paper-eating animals (mice). And there are lots of things we have to guard when using paper wallets. I think the hardware wallet is very good, or the software wallet is stored properly.
I have two important wallets I have one wallet keys stored on my Telegram with 2fa installed and also on my personal diary. For my second wallet, I have the keys stored on a diary and flash drive. It is where I have my bitcoin bought for long hold and I don't want anything that will being an easy interaction with the keys to Internet.
For my own safety, I save my private keys and password to my personal cellular phone that already have personal password that only my fingerprint can be an access. I think this is the safest way to store my password and private keys. All we know the risk in engaging in fraud cases and scams so let make our passwords and private keys safe.
I keep the keys to my e-wallets in three copies:
1. On the hard drive of my computer, which of course stands on the password.
2. On a flash drive.
3. On paper just in case.
1. On the hard drive of my computer, which of course stands on the password.
2. On a flash drive.
3. On paper just in case.
easiest thing do not let the virus enter your device, especially if there is a rat, do storage in some places but do not let anyone know your privatekey and do backups also on cloud storage and most importantly never phishing when phishing is raging and even phishing I have arrived at mobile and desktop applications, I suggest that you must be careful before logging in using Privatekey on existing sites / applications.
Private keys don't fair well with many users, the best is to get a cold wallet or use keystore file to access one's wallet. The keys might be copied and pasted somewhere leading to hack.
I will store my private keys in the cloud and set security for it, so I can get it anytime and anywhere
Personally I do prefer storing my keys offline to prevent third party Acess and also incase of computer hard disk breaking down.
One may ask, are paper wallets safe enough from relatives and friends?
My reply is that I have developed my own language whereby I represent the vowels in the alphabets in other to with some special characters which only myself, I mean no other person can interpret.
How do you save yours?
One may ask, are paper wallets safe enough from relatives and friends?
My reply is that I have developed my own language whereby I represent the vowels in the alphabets in other to with some special characters which only myself, I mean no other person can interpret.
How do you save yours?
I guess I hav to adopt this your pattern of secret vowel representations. I store my private keys offline though and good enough, no one around me knows about crypto and can't even say what the keys are for. The best way as I have heard is storing with paper wallets if one can afford it.
I write it down on paper and then hide it properly. Then i also move it to a folder in my laptop then hide the folder using a step i learnt from youtube few years back
Keeping your asset safe is a hard thing now a days. But I always prefer a hardware wallet if you can effort it. Otherwise there is many way to keep this things. Many give many kind of ideas. But for me I used 3 diffrest USB and hard-disk and keep the private key their. Used 3 diffrest USB devices cause anytime one can broke. I never hold keys on a device which has inter connection. That's it for me. And yes my family know that this usb has something very important.
I would prefer storing my private keys both google keep notes and have it printed using hard copy. Because of internet safety reason, we must make sure to it that we have backed up our personal data physically. Any usb or cr burned data also is commendable to do so as long as you're keeping it confidentialy in your residence free from any physical not intrusion.
I always use offline methods to store my private keys. I write keys in two different paper and keep them in two different places for doubling the security, in case one gets wasted by water or fire. Also, I have a wallet with no written backup, I keep the key phrases in my mind. Yes, you read it write, I memorized a full key which is the most secure wallet to me. I ensured that I won't make mistake by practicing a few hundred times over a few months of memorizing.
I am not sure private keys can be changed and revealing where you keep your private keys on this forum can expose someone if a familiar individual is on this forum, reading your post and have access to getting close to where you could put the keys. What is equally important is to understand how to manage the keys safety, either online or offline.
I'd like to buy a hardware wallet, but as far as I'm concerned, it's too expensive, so far just using MEW and storing the key on a flash drive
I do not understand why such difficulties. It is easier to have several wallets and distribute your tokens among them. And private keys and files to them to keep on your computer in a text version with tricky names. And of course, a good antivirus. Well, as a supplement to duplicate all the information to your flash drive so as not to be afraid if the hard drive suddenly breaks.
From my expertise, having a water-fire-proof wood box will be enough for storing the private keys. Otherwise, it will become harder to hold the private keys without any potential danger to its existence. Instead of storing on the big exchanges, I go for the hardware or desktop wallets. Both options are secure than holding on the exchanges which dangerously open to the hacks.
I like to print out the privet keys and save it as a hardcopy in a file. I think this is one of the best ways to store the keys simply and securely.
I use a slightly similar method, I store my keys online in a fresh telegram account that I don't share with anybody or even use, but to be more secure, I add 2FA to the account but I think the best security feature I implemented was to ensure that I mix some phrases into my private keys, thereby rendering it useless to any other person but me.
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