Topic: HOWTO: create a 100% secure wallet - page 61. (Read 276221 times)

thanks for the info

Is there a way to use dropbox or similar product and still get some king of a safe wallet following me around?

Liberte linux flash stick.

awesome!  I'm not quite THAT paranoid yet though (or have enough BTC to worry about...)

very good

Agreed. lol thanks anyway

Thanks for this HOWTO! and yes it is useful in upping post count past 5!

It does not exist.. A perfect secure wallet.. Simply because humans always make mistakes, and thus, nothing can be 100% secure.

Almost seems like its useful to quote this to pump up post numbers...

I was wondering if theres a way to have a secure wallet and be able to send payments with no fee from said wallet, even if it will take longer. From what I gathered this should be possible.

Thx alot for the guide helped me alot.

Thanks for the great post!  Though I definitely use encrypted filesystems (file contained or partition contained) to store my wallet.dat file.  Its worth the wait for peace of mind.  Though I'd recommend a SSD or high quality usb stick for use with encryption.

bigmint

Just move Wallet to it's own partion on the usb-stick. Pull it out when you are done. Linex live cd supports this. Just don't leave the thumbdrive in computer when you are finished with incoming or transactions.

Thanks top write up

Thanks
I wonder if it would be too hard to teach my grandma to use bitcoin wallet

Does anyone maintain a stripped down live cd distro with bitcoin utilities built in? I was thinking of making one for Raspberry pi but I could get started with a pc live cd. I would prefer my bitcoin wallet generator to never connect to the net, then I can hit my RAM with a hair dryer after I shut down sleep secure with my millions (sic) hidden in bitcoin.

I myself think that the only way to secure your wallet is to store your coins at MT.GOX or something of that nature. I am aware of MT.GOX getting attacked. But if one has to sell or exchange their coins. They have to go to one of the exchange sites. Who is to say hat these sites will not turn on us someday and take our coins thbat they are storing in our exchange acxcount. I feel thbat there should be another way that we can trade or sell our coins thast we have mined or invested in. It would be a terrible thing to go to one of these sites and find that the site has closed its doors. What keeps thbe sites from closing and running with our money? Nothing, thats right, nothing. We have to trust the sites to make sure that our coins are safe. If the sites are not safe then. Why would a wallet be safe. Even if you copy your wallet dat file for storage. You have to hook that wallet back up to network to download new transactions. If an attack was plan. It would not make any diffrents if you had a backup. Your wallet would just be compromised when you download in coming ttransaction. The network is our biggest theat. To bad their is so many evil people out there. Most of us are honest miners. Just trying to make a buck. And like to toy with computers in our spare time.

Great guide, I always think I am good with backing up I actually have two externals I use that are almost never connected to my computer and only one copy of each wallet on my comp. But this is definitely a surefire backup thanks!!

good advice