Topic: How to keep your bitcoins secure if you suddenly disappear (jail or prison) - page 7. (Read 17025 times)

Brain wallets do not work, if the password has ever been on the internet ANYWHERE.



Here is my attempt.

Buy the following:

1 - 2" diameter X 4" long steel pipe nipple (threaded on both ends)
2 - 2" diameter threaded end caps.
1 - 1/8 thick X 1" wide X 4" long flat steel
1 - Set of metal punches. Lowercase and Capitals 0-9 (Yes this will cost you some money)

Stamp your private key into piece of flat steel. Insert stamped plate into pipe, tighten on both ends caps to make it water and air tight.

Get a long narrow planters shovel and head to the graveyard at night. Pretend like you are on your hands preying at your grandfathers grave and slice a small circle of grass out and set it aside. Dig an 8 inch deep hole drop in pipe, fill in hole with dirt, replace grass patch. It will grow back within a week or so. No one is going to be digging up a graveyard looking for bitcoins.

Once out of jail, buy a metal detector and at night go to your grandfathers grave to retrieve steel pipe.  

BONUS: Make the private key BIP38 encrypted and put the password in a second pipe. Bury this one above the grave closest to the exit of the graveyard. You will definitely need that before leaving.  

This will stay in tact for 100+ years and will be easy to remember because no one forgets where their grandfather is buried. (Providing you knew him as a young boy)

This is a very good point. Even if you ignore the fact that most people do not have the mental capacity to be able to memorize a random set of letters/numbers the size of a private key. It has been shows that many inmates leave jail/prison in a worse state then they entered, and many become more violent and are prone to more criminal activity then when they went in.

That assumes that a person still retains a rational mind or good memory after X years in there
But when in doubt it never hurts to have alternative ways to remember it such as a digital archive or something of the sort.

Simply memorize your passphrase or private key until you return.

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Keeping your private keys and all login credentials safe inside a Metal-safe is what I practice

No worries about anything.

Doesn't give anyone your wallet password. It is the best way to keep your Bitcoin secure.

I would keep identifer/password/private key written on a paper and put it in bank locker. Easy win situation.

I just open multisig paper wallet.Then store multiple copies in separate safety deposit boxes with a password that i will never forget in my life..

It would be a good hiding spot, but would also be a hard place to use a phone/camera to take a picture of your QR private key when you get out of jail.

This kind of question differs in answers, most bitcoin would be save in a web wallet such as coinbase, as all you need is your phone and password.

If 100 million people got arrested, then there are 200 million people that don't get arrested. (Only counting 'murikans.)

Of course, I'm a bit biased as I'm almost pretty sure that I won't get arrested. I've gotten into some very hairy situations, but so far, I've not been arrested.

If I live to be a hundred, I'm more than a third of my way there. Fingers crossed.

It helps that you get involved or be a part of law enforcement, but that's not a guarantee. (I'm an officer in the armed forces of my country.) (Yes, I've read about the ones that shot up their base.)

I've been arrested (drunk and disorderly, pissed in my old cat collecting neighbors front door mail slot) but they charged me and let me go when I sobered up.

 I dunno, the QR on ur stink hole is a pretty good hiding spot. After a few years in prison it might be a little hard to read though.

There was an article today that talked about how ~1/3 of American adults have been arrested in their lifetimes, but a large number of those people are not even charged with any crime.

The only real way to keep your BTC safe in the event you get arrested and/or get sent to jail/prison is to use a brainwallet. Any other method would result in the possibility of the private key be stolen/found, and your privacy is significantly reduced if you are sent to jail/get arrested.

Simple. Don't get arrested. (Easier said than done, but millions of people manage to do it.)

Maybe you had some BO 
Anyways a brainwallet combined with some cold storage and I guess finding a place that you can keep it stored safely while in prison seem to be the main requirements to get it secure.

The question is people have the foresight to do it before they get arrested lol.

That's why Brainwallet was invented.
https://bitaddress.org

Just remember though that there are hackers out there pre compiling brainwallet passphrases into rainbow tables
so you need to make sure you use a very good pass phrase of 15 chars, uppercase lowercase numbers and special chars.

May I suggest it's unwise to link users to a site where they enter their password to check its security.
No tech-savvy person would ever enter their real password on such a site, but that's not who this post was for.
What's worse is that that site is not even ssl protected, meaning anyone can read a plaintext password you enter over the wire. Nasty. Seriously, remove that link...

Tell me that again after walking 6 miles up and down California street in San Francisco.