Looking After Paper Wallets - page 2.

HarringtonStark

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on March 19, 2017, 03:58:26 AM

A paper wallet should last forever as long as It's kept somewhere safe, laminating the paper could work but I don't see why would you do that If your worries are the water only, and If you are worried about someone reading your private key then you could encrypt it using BIP-38 so even If they read it or they manage to get it, It's impossible to get the actual private key without the passphrase.

I'm considering storing some of my bitcoins in paper wallets as I think it's the safest, hack proof way. I'll be storing them on my safe!

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All I know is that I know nothing.

i was considering laminating my paper wallet but that would require me to go out to a "laminating shop" (i don't know what it is called in English) and ask them to do it and that already compromises me even though i can be 99% sure the person doing it won't have slightest idea what it is i have written on paper

you can encrypt it with a password and then do it though, but i didn't.
i just settled for simple writing down my seed (or it can be private key) on a paper! simple! and it has been 2 years and the paper is still fine.
i should add that is not my only back up, but it is my only physical backup.

Quote from: K128kevin2 on March 19, 2017, 03:48:38 AM

ink getting damaged by the sun

don't leave your paper in the garden. Cheesy

OmegaStarScream

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A paper wallet should last forever as long as It's kept somewhere safe, laminating the paper could work but I don't see why would you do that If your worries are the water only, and If you are worried about someone reading your private key then you could encrypt it using BIP-38 so even If they read it or they manage to get it, It's impossible to get the actual private key without the passphrase.

K128kevin2

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Hi all, can anybody with paper wallets tell me how they look after their wallets and how long they expect them to last?

bitcoinpaperwallet.com sells a tamper resistant sticker so that you can fold up the paper and know if anybody has had a cheeky peek at your private key, but I was thinking of something more on the lines of laminating the paper to prevent it from getting water damaged.

Another possibility is the ink getting damaged by the sun and becoming unreadable, not sure what you can do about that so I was just going to leave them in a safe.

Lastly, can anybody see anything wrong with coating the paper with resin, or sealing it in a resin block? I think doing that would last longer than laminating it.

Thanks

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