So after reading this, I'm still trying to understand how secure different methods are, and the time vs. level of security issue.
If you created a truecrypt file that stored either the wallet.dat or the entire bitcoin program, and then only mounted it when in use (of course on a clean OS install with heavy virus protection), would that provide an acceptable level of security? I guess I don't completely understand where exactly the vulnerabilities exist.
Also, is it possible to put the wallet.dat on a flash drive with an encrypted partition, so that the bitcoin program could reside on your main OS, but would have no access under normal operation to your wallet?
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What's wrong with keeping multiple wallets around. Have like one on a seldom used laptop and one on a regular desktop. I understand it's free to transfer coins from wallet to wallet so even if one gets stolen, most of your coins will be in the backed up wallet.
In fact couldn't you just keep perpetually sending coins to a wallet that isn't even online and it still gets credited?
In fact couldn't you just keep perpetually sending coins to a wallet that isn't even online and it still gets credited?
Thankd for the guide, well written!
In terms of securing your bitcoins, how safe are online services (I'm thinking of signing up for flexcoin)? If you boot a live CD and TOR every time you want to access your online account, you should be safe from keyloggers and Man-in-the-middle attacks. The URL obfuscation of TOR and the SSL layer provided by the sites seem pretty safe to me. Thoughts?
Spend some time researching MyBitcoin. This should help skew your view of online (banking) services.
In terms of securing your bitcoins, how safe are online services (I'm thinking of signing up for flexcoin)? If you boot a live CD and TOR every time you want to access your online account, you should be safe from keyloggers and Man-in-the-middle attacks. The URL obfuscation of TOR and the SSL layer provided by the sites seem pretty safe to me. Thoughts?
Spend some time researching MyBitcoin. This should help skew your view of online (banking) services.
In terms of securing your bitcoins, how safe are online services (I'm thinking of signing up for flexcoin)? If you boot a live CD and TOR every time you want to access your online account, you should be safe from keyloggers and Man-in-the-middle attacks. The URL obfuscation of TOR and the SSL layer provided by the sites seem pretty safe to me. Thoughts?
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Thanks for this! Really helpful
Thank's for the tips!
Thank you for this info!
I am really bothered by the fact that the wallet.dat is not human readable. It would make me many times more comfortable if I could see the contents and perhaps print them to paper if I wanted to. Then if there was some kind of upgrade bug, I could always copy and paste to repair it.
Was a brilliant and interesting read, I currently store an encrypted wallet.dat on 2 remote server locations (fully locked down with only ssh key pair logins by me) and one in a physical location at my home address.
Has been pretty reliable so far, though I havn't exactly had people trying to steal my bitcoins either
Has been pretty reliable so far, though I havn't exactly had people trying to steal my bitcoins either
Great info, thanks
"A real world safe" 
Nice read.
Nice read.
Cool thread, thanks for the info.
Now to get some bitcoins....
Now to get some bitcoins....
for widows7 you can find it in
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
I still cannot find my wallet even after doing a search in windows, can anyone help?
goto start. under search type ---> wallet.dat
i love a girl with a fat wallet.dat
I suggest everyone use this no matter how little amount of bitcoins you have. When i first started with bitcoins I was sent a wallet stealer and the next day I didn't have any coins left in my wallet. Completely swiped.
Nothing ever is 100% secure, and lets not forget, the level of inconvenience grows exponentially with the level of security.
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