Topic: Storing bitcoins (Read 2595 times)

You can use blockchain.info step by step guide to create a secure cold wallet.

thanks but I already made my cold wallet   bitcoins on the way

You can use blockchain.info step by step guide to create a secure cold wallet.

Don't use Schoen468596 anymore, but that is a relatively safe password, it is unlikely a 'hacker' could guess that as your password. You should include special characters such as: !#^$&@*()+- to generate stronger passwords.

yes, that's what i mean, but is using a short password which ill never forget, Schoen468596 or something much safer than without a password or can any hacker just come up to something like this?

You might get in a car accident and get amnesia...
I would advice you to use multiple methods, if one fail the other ones will most likely still be ok.

yes, that's what i mean, but is using a short password which ill never forget, Schoen468596 or something much safer than without a password or can any hacker just come up to something like this?

The risk is that after importing your private key to blockchain.info, it will no longer be offline as I said.
So, your bitcoin will no longer be immune to hacking, phishing attacks, malware, etc.

I don't see any problem to that.



It it better to be consisted of capital and small letters, numeric and special characters.
The longer the password, the more unlikely it will get cracked but at the same time the more likely you will forget the password.  

and it's 100% sure www.bitaddress.org gives me the right private key and they don't keep it thereselves? if exchanges could betray me, they could do that too? and i wouldnt even know that untill i bring them somewhere online in the blockchain in a few years

so if i understand it well i take a little risk everytime i want to sell my bitcoins or move them to wherever?
so it would be better to make 10 wallets each with 1 btc? so i can keep the 9 btc in paper wallet and take 1 out if i need them?

btw, what is a strong password for bip38 ?
how long does it have to be to be safe?
is it best to just make a sentence in the smallest language I speak?

Hi everyone,
Some time ago I bought 100 BTC (+70.000$), most of them I lose through hackers, mtgox, investing in HYIP, getting scammed by cloudbet... Now I have a bit less than 10 btc left (sadly worth nothing in compare to my initial investment). I'm used to keep them at exchanges like kraken and justcoin (which closed recently), then I discovered bitfinex and now I'm offering swaps there, hoping to maybe get back an extra bitcoin within a year. But I'm wondering how safe it is to keep my bitcoins there and offer swaps? I can make some profit there (and technically it should work as long as the owners don't run away or something went wrong on the website) but I'm also a bit affraid of losing everything. It also has some advantages, sometimes I really want to make some bets and recently I did it a lot bringing me from less than 3 to over 9 BTC. But that's mostly because of luck and maybe that could precent me losing my bitcoins that way because I never have access to my bitcoins immediately unless I change the autorenew settings in the website and wait for a few weeks. So what would be the best way to store my bitcoins? Going for the profit and let the bitcoins earn intrest on bitfinex or what do you think? My mail is safe now through 2FA if that would matter. If I deposit around 10 btc there I could earn around 2 mBTC every day by just offering swaps.