There is still a lot of unawareness in people interacting with crypto, some may be storing their private keys in their online wallets and some keep it in pc notepads.
Whether it is any place, since all these storages have connection to internet, your data might be compromised any time. I feel better to write my keys down on a paper
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My advice, keep your private key in various places and do not combine Walled address with private key, separate them to save them.
Save your private key in 3 different places, eg in Email, WhatsApps and print on paper. that's what i do, you can try it if you want
Save your private key in 3 different places, eg in Email, WhatsApps and print on paper. that's what i do, you can try it if you want
My advice, keep your private key in various places and do not combine Walled address with private key, separate them to save them.
Save your private key in 3 different places, eg in Email, WhatsApps and print on paper. that's what i do, you can try it if you want
Save your private key in 3 different places, eg in Email, WhatsApps and print on paper. that's what i do, you can try it if you want
The only potential downside is that you might face certain threats when importing the private keys, but that's a problem for later since I don't plan to redeem any coins unless there is another Bcash like fork happening.
Same here. BCash pushed me to the absolute limit with creating new backups and whatnot, and I'm certainly not looking forward to do that again. I kinda regret having done so with my 2013 backups. It was some sort of a trophy for me knowing that these coins haven't been moving for more than 4 years. Currently I still have nearly all BTG (and 100% of all other forks) and looking at the latest price, I probably won't ever have to create new backs for this fork.The recent intel security "bug" could have deliberately been designed as a feature: built in backdoor.
Correct. Imagine how many times systems have been acting weird where people and businesses thought it was related to a virus or whatever. They probably kept secure erasing their drives or even buy new equipment, but the problem kept popping up.The main thing is that we shouldn't fear that what we know about already (because we can relatively easily weapon ourselves against that), but that what we don't know about.
Lets not push it too hard. We only have man made options to store our private keys and crypto graphs either in the google storage like you said or simply download the files and store them in the personal computer somewhere safe. I would say the first option is always best because it highly impossible that google cloud will ever get hacked or their information will ever get leaked out. As far as the personal computing is considered, it can be victim of hacks easily if you ever turned on your PC with public IP's. Thats like 90's trick and we are in 21st so its far easy to do that. I guess cloud storage seems to be perfect one.
If you are willing to keep your coins in cloud storage, you should at least split the seed in two and keep half in each storage.
However, I don't think that's safe enough. Ideally you should just write it down on a piece of paper. Keep the paper in different places and you are safe.
However, I don't think that's safe enough. Ideally you should just write it down on a piece of paper. Keep the paper in different places and you are safe.
To my hypothesis, there are a lot of crypto enthusiasts who are fond of keeping their private keys, Keystore / JSON File, seed words, mnemonic phrases etc to their wallet on cloud storage platforms like google drive and the several others. From my little research and experience, I personally think to keep these sensitive data isn't the best due to its nature of proneness to unauthorized accesses.
I'm positive there are individuals in this forum with profound knowledge regarding this topic. We would be grateful if you share with us your experience, tips, advice and most importantly, secured ways and means we can manage our private keys.
Thank You!
I'm thinking that hardware wallets are one of the most secure thing around, and also you need to have special programs like password storages, it usually would be helpful. I'm positive there are individuals in this forum with profound knowledge regarding this topic. We would be grateful if you share with us your experience, tips, advice and most importantly, secured ways and means we can manage our private keys.
Thank You!
I think it is risky to put your private key in such cloud based services because you truly don't know if a rogue employee could snoop around the files. Though since it's extremely unlikely, until you find an alternative I think it's better than not having it backed up at a different location at all.
To my hypothesis, there are a lot of crypto enthusiasts who are fond of keeping their private keys, Keystore / JSON File, seed words, mnemonic phrases etc to their wallet on cloud storage platforms like google drive and the several others. From my little research and experience, I personally think to keep these sensitive data isn't the best due to its nature of proneness to unauthorized accesses.
I'm positive there are individuals in this forum with profound knowledge regarding this topic. We would be grateful if you share with us your experience, tips, advice and most importantly, secured ways and means we can manage our private keys.
Thank You!
I'm positive there are individuals in this forum with profound knowledge regarding this topic. We would be grateful if you share with us your experience, tips, advice and most importantly, secured ways and means we can manage our private keys.
Thank You!
There is a lot of other ways you can manage to keep your private key safe.
If you have a lot of money in crypto. Buy an usb, copy the private key into it and keep your usb somewhere safe.
Or you can print out on a paper.
do not open suspicious sites and keep your private key in the safest place. if you can do these two things I'm sure your assets will be safe.
Would be interested to know basic opsec (operational security) regarding storage of private keys observed by crypto pros. Not storing keys in a digital or electronic format would represent a basic fundamental, I would have to think. Keys would likely be written on a piece of paper or stored stenographically, concealed inside another file. In more extreme cases, I could imagine keys being written on a piece of paper and sealed inside a weatherproof container before being buried or stored in a place where they are unlikely to be found.
Electronic storage methods are suspect in that many routers and hardware platforms contain built in backdoors utilized for state surveillance, consumer data mining, et al. There was a case in 2017 where "700 million android phones" had a backdoor installed which could forward data to china. Windows and presumably other OS could have similar measures. The recent intel security "bug" could have deliberately been designed as a feature: built in backdoor.
I would think electronic storage would be avoided but to be honest, I haven't put much thought into this.
Electronic storage methods are suspect in that many routers and hardware platforms contain built in backdoors utilized for state surveillance, consumer data mining, et al. There was a case in 2017 where "700 million android phones" had a backdoor installed which could forward data to china. Windows and presumably other OS could have similar measures. The recent intel security "bug" could have deliberately been designed as a feature: built in backdoor.
I would think electronic storage would be avoided but to be honest, I haven't put much thought into this.
I am probably an old fart, but I like to store my private keys on a simple piece of paper written by myself. I have used hardware wallets but came back to paper storage since that isn't depending on trust other than myself.
The only potential downside is that you might face certain threats when importing the private keys, but that's a problem for later since I don't plan to redeem any coins unless there is another Bcash like fork happening.
It's important to realize that we will always expose our coins to a certain risk since there is no central authority involved that will refund people in case of coin loss. Once your coins are lost you lost them for ever.
The only potential downside is that you might face certain threats when importing the private keys, but that's a problem for later since I don't plan to redeem any coins unless there is another Bcash like fork happening.
It's important to realize that we will always expose our coins to a certain risk since there is no central authority involved that will refund people in case of coin loss. Once your coins are lost you lost them for ever.
Well everything is hackable. There is no promise guaranteed 100% safe whichever wallet you have but some choose their valued cryptocurrencies stored in a cold wallet. This way no body can access your wallet but only you.
To my hypothesis, there are a lot of crypto enthusiasts who are fond of keeping their private keys, Keystore / JSON File, seed words, mnemonic phrases etc to their wallet on cloud storage platforms like google drive and the several others. From my little research and experience, I personally think to keep these sensitive data isn't the best due to its nature of proneness to unauthorized accesses.
I'm positive there are individuals in this forum with profound knowledge regarding this topic. We would be grateful if you share with us your experience, tips, advice and most importantly, secured ways and means we can manage our private keys.
Thank You!
I'm positive there are individuals in this forum with profound knowledge regarding this topic. We would be grateful if you share with us your experience, tips, advice and most importantly, secured ways and means we can manage our private keys.
Thank You!
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