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    #19116760 - 11/10/13 07:24 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Greetings fellow Shroomerites! If you are on this thread, chances are you have heard about BTC, and are looking to have an online wallet. This tutorial will serve as guide to get you up and running with an online wallet from blockchain.info

This is my favourite online wallet, and IMO it is the most reliable out there. Please note this tutorial will serve as an introduction on how to use and make a wallet with them, and secure it to the fullest extent. I suggest you secure it, but it is up to you.

Note that with securing your blockchain.info wallet, if you lose some of the security methods such as secondary passwords, email accounts, etc.. You can be locked out of your account forever.

I will not take ANY responsibility for you locking yourself out of your account due to stupidy and negligence.



Blockchain.info tutorial:

There are many ways you can store your bitcoins, ranging from paper wallets, physical wallets located on a computer you own, to online wallets. Traditionally, the most secure form of having a wallet is using a physical wallet. But this also requires you to lock down the wallet, where the wallet is stored, and the computer that will be stored on. This tutorial will cover the use of online wallets.

Personally, I use blockchain.info as I find it the most user friendly, but also heavily securable online wallet there is; It is also trusted by many users who partake in bitcoins. It is my personal preference, the preference of many people I know and have read about, I wouldn't be surprised if it is one of the most widely preferred online wallets, but this is just my assumption.

However when using an online wallet, you have to trust the people who will host the wallet which is often not the most easiest thing to do. Are there servers properly secured, what kind of security measures are taken, how popular of a target are they for hackers, etc... Are questions that should be asked and may not always be answered. So it is really up to you whether you use an online wallet or not.

What you will need:

Computer with Internet access
Email
*optional* cell phone


Before You Start:


What is two-factor authentication? Two-factor Authentication is a login mechanism used to require additional information beyond your standard identifier+password. If someone manages to find out your identifier and password, they will require the two-factor authentication code to login effectively making it harder for them to gain access.


SMS for two-factor authentication: The main downside behind this is that you are only allowed a limit amount of text messages sent to your phone per 24 hour period, and if you go above the limit, you are locked out of your wallet for 24 hours.

Email Account: Whether or not you want to link an email to your blockchain wallet. If you do, it will be very helpful in recovering your wallet, receiving email backups to your wallet, and even being used for two-factor authentication. However if you do use an email account, DON'T use your primary email account. I would create an account strictly for your blockchain.info wallet. However you have to consider email account security, which is another topic in and of it's self.

Passwords: ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS use strong passwords; DON'T use a password that you are already using, and I suggest you don't make one yourself. Use an online password generator to create one for you. You can also use the password generation function of KeePassX.

Step 1:
First off you will want to navigate to blockchain.info, once here you will need to click the "Wallet" button on the top menu bar http://i.imgur.com/AtWkDIH.png . This will take you to the web page for their wallet service, from here you can create a new one, login to an existing one, access help services, and more. Click the "Start A New Wallet" button and you will be ready to begin. http://i.imgur.com/AEfPvNo.png



Step 2:
Here you will be prompted to use the email that your wallet will belong to, although this is not required, however I recommend that you do choose an email as this can be used to receive wallet backups, be used as a part of a two-factor authentication method, and aid in the recovery of a wallet. A neat thing about blockchain.info is that when you are entering your password, it will show you the average time it will take a desktop PC to crack your password. The password you enter will be considered your main password. http://i.imgur.com/MTmUe0T.png

After entering your password, and optional email, and the captcha, a Wallet Recovery Mnemonic will be displayed that can be used to aid you in recovering your wallet should you lose it, WRITE IT DOWN OR PRINT. http://i.imgur.com/zkbgrGF.png

Step 3:
After completing the previous step, you will be redirected to the login page for your wallet, which will have an identifier displayed. Write this down, copy paste it, or store it in another way. If you are writing it down, make sure you do not mispell anything as this will be used to login. http://i.imgur.com/vpS6sJe.png

Step 4:
You are now taken to the homepage for your wallet, which will display your main bitcoin address used by the wallet which can be receive BTC, and send them as well. Congrats!! You have created your online wallet. But don't stop here, right now you're wallet is about as safe as a scantilly clad 18 year old at a rave on mdma. http://i.imgur.com/9MEPg9T.png

From this screen you can create backups of your wallet, access your account settings, and more. First I will discuss the Account Settings feature. Click the "Account Settings" button and you will be prompted with a warning that says you are about to display sensitive data, I suggest doing this is the safety of your home as a passerby can snoop on you. After clicking continue, you will be prompted to enter your main password. http://i.imgur.com/Xmt0jB0.png


Step 5a:
Personal settings. http://i.imgur.com/2bG346h.png
Here you can access various settings to help secure your wallet. First we will deal with the Personal tab of your account settings. If you haven't already configured an email for this account, do so now. This can be used to help recover your wallet should you lose it, to receive various notifications, and as part of a two-factor authentication mechanism. After entering the email, you will be prompted for a verification code which will be sent to you. This is recommended step, so it is optional, but you should do it.

You can also be prompted to enter a mobile phone number, which can be also be used for notifications, and two-factor authentication. IT is optional, I personally use it, so you decide whether or not to use it.

Step 5b:
General settings. http://i.imgur.com/8ehTYxH.png

Click the General button to access general settings for your account. This page allows you to set an Inactivity logout function, which can be useful. Depending on what you're doing, I would set it to 5 minutes providing you don't plan to spend a lot of time away from your computer with this page open.

You can also enter a default fee policy as blockchain.info will take a small % off of your transactions, I recommend you leave it at the default selection or the "normal" selection. If you choose frugal, your transactions will be processed slower, if your choose Generous your transactions will be processed faster, and it includes a base fee of 0.001BTC whereas the Normal selection is a % of the amount you are sending/receiving. I leave it at normal.

You can also choose whether or not you want to receive automatic email backups.

Step 5c:
Notification settings http://i.imgur.com/iIdsf3Y.png

Here you can configure various settings to notify you when you send, or receive payments. I use email notifications, but you can use any of the options you want. I would personally not use the SMS notifications setting as blockchain limits the amount of sms messages you can receive perday.

You can also configure when you receive the notifications, such as receiving or sending bitcoins,  and after how many blockchain confirmations you receive for each individual transaction.

Step 5d:
Passwords settings http://i.imgur.com/12oq5CE.png

This is perhaps one of the most important tabs of your account settings page, and I recommend you use every feature available. Here you can update your main password, display your mnemonic, configure a secondary password, and enable a password hints feature.

I strongly recommend that you use a Second Password, as even if someone gets unauthorized access to your account, they will have to enter a second password if they wish to send money.

It is worthwhile to use a main password hint in case you forget yours. If you do, and you have your password hint, mnemonic, and other information it can aid in retrieving your wallet.

Step 5e:
Security settings http://i.imgur.com/qrNOncc.png

this is another very import tab of the account settings page, and can be used to help lockdown your blockchain wallet. I suggest using almost everything on this tab, but the one thing I don't use is the browser backup, as if someone manages to gain access to your browser before you clear the local browser storage, they can manage to recover your wallet.

Two-Factor Authentication: If you use this setting, you will be prompted to enter additional information when logging in. You will be given a 5 digit value, containing characters and/or numbers. This will be sent to you when you are on the login page of your wallet. You can receive this to your email, your phone through a text message, or any of the other options available. It is worth mentioning that you are only allowed a limited amount of text messages sent to your phone over a 24hour period, so if you intend to use your account multiple times a day this can pose some issues. If you try to login to your account too many times, you will not be sent the value to your phone, thus locking you out for 24 hours. This is why I recommend using two-factor authentication through your email, however this poses additional issues such as email account security. However if you use the Remember Two Factor login function, this will allow you to relogin during a short period of time without having to enter an additional key.

Secret Phrase: This can be used in the event that you lose access to your wallet, I recommend using this as it can help you gain access to your wallet should you lose your passwords.

Never Remember Two Factor Login: By default, your browser will temporarily remember your two-factor authentication key for a short period of time. If you enable this feature, your browser will never remember your two-factor authentication key.

Block TOR ip addresses: It is very common for hacker to try and access your account through the TOR network as this gives them some degree of anonymity. I recommend enabling this option. It is disabled by default.

Restrict To IP: If you intend to use your account from a single computer/network, this will be very useful. If someone else tries to connect to your account from the IP address that isn't allowed, their attempt will be blocked.

Step 5f:
Logging settings http://i.imgur.com/CDTyAID.png

This tab can be used to set the level of logging that is used for people connecting to your wallet. I highly recommend you use this so you can see who accesses your account. By deafult no logging is enabled, however there are two options you can use, "Log actions with IP address and User Agent" this logs the ip of the connecting user, and the type of browser they are using. "Log Actions with hashed IP addreses" hashes the Ip address of the connecting user so you can't directly see who is connecting, doesn't show the user agent.

Step 5g:
Device settings

This tab will be useful if you are using your blockchain wallet on an Adroid or iOS device. I suggest you don't do this as this means you have to take the security of your Android, or iOS device into consideration which poses more risks.

Step 5h:
Debugging settings http://i.imgur.com/9rZnKcK.png

Another useful tab, that can be used to verify the integrity of your wallet, I running the Integrity check, and Check compressed features after receiving BTC, and sending BTC.

PBKDF2 Iterations: This is useful to increase the security of your password, reducing the risks of it being cracked during a bruteforce attack. Please note that this can slow down your browser, and cause compatability issues with older clients. I use the maximum settings, but you can decide whether or not you want to use it. Want as much security as possible? USE IT!


Step 6a:

Managing your receiving bitcoin addresses  http://i.imgur.com/XcQ0aXS.png

Through the Receive Money tab of your blockchain wallet, you can manage the addresses that are used to receive bitcoins. All the addresses here hold individual amounts of bitcoins, so the BTC you have in one address, will not be the same in a different addresses. When creating a new address, you can specify a label/description to be used so you can help identify what that address is for. These addresses will be displayed in the "Active" portion of your addresses.

Step 6b:
Shared receiving addresses http://i.imgur.com/XzUluSw.png

This is a very useful feature which can be used to anonymize your bitcoin transactions. What this does is create a wallet that receives bitcoins which are different from the ones you are purchasing from your BTC vendor. What this does is it creates a wallet which will be used to forward the BTC to your main wallet. The neat thing about this is that your BTC vendor sends bitcoins to this address, and they are mixed in with other bitcoins being sent to various shared addresses in the blockchain. The bitcoins you end up with in your main wallet, will not be the bitcoins that your BTC vendor sent. This provides anonymity for both you, and your BTC vendor. Please note that a 0.5% fee is charged based on the amount you are receiving.

You will be able to specify the address that it forwards to, also note that you can only use these shared addresses for ONE TRANSACTION. THEY BECOME USELESS AFTER A SINGLE TRANSACTION. I strongly recommend that you use this feature as it helps to anonymize your transaction.

The shared address is the blue, clickable one displayed under "address"


Step 7a
Quickly sending money http://i.imgur.com/5hF45Wm.png

This tab under the "Send Money" menu allows you to quickly send address to a specified recipient. This provide no tumbling/anonymization of the bitcoins you are sending.

Step 7b:
Shared Send http://i.imgur.com/H8Tfqw2.png

This nifty feature allows you to tumble/anonymize the actual sending of bitcoins to the specified address. Again this follows the same anonymization of the Shared addresses used for receiving BTC, but for sending them! This ensures the BTC ending up in the target wallet, aren't the same as the ones leaving your wallet. This also incures a 0.5% fee.

It's up to you whether or not you want to use this, but I strongly recommend you do. The point of BTC is for anonymous, decentralized transactions (among other points) so why not use that to the fullest extent.

The total fee of using shared send to send BTC, and shared addresses to receive is 1%, not that much eh?



Conclusion:

Congrats, you pretty much just fort knoxed your blockchain.info online wallet to an attacker trying to get access. There are pros and cons to doing this, one of the main cons is that if you forget some of the security measures you used (two-factor authentication, second password, etc..) you are in a shitty situation if you lose access to your wallet, so it's really up to you to determine how much you want to lock down your wallet.

To log off simply click the Power button at the top of the screen.


Final Notes:

I highly recommend you keep various backups of your password, identifier, email addresses, etc.. You should create a printout of them, and store them in a safe place. Try to remember them if possible, and use spare USB sticks that will NEVER EVER EVER leave your house to store these addresses, keep them in a safe location in your house and never reveal them to anyone else. You have to weigh the pros and cons of that though, as if someone gets access to the USB drive it's self you are boned, if you bring it out with you and lose it, you are boned. If you connect it to a computer with a keylogger or other malware, you are boned.

I suggest you do this from an OS such as Linux simply for the fact that Windows is plagued with viruses, and if the system you are using is infected with virsuses, you're screwed!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here and I will do my best to help you. See something wrong with the spelling, or formatting? Let me know in a non offensive manner by posting here and I will see if I can fix it.

I suggest you don't access your account through the TOR network as this can lead to your account being compromised by a malicious TOR exit node. It's up to you whether or not you want to use proxies, or VPNs with this account, just know that if you are using a proxy or VPN, do you trust the proxy/vpn owner to not sniff your traffic?


Feel like being generous and spreading some love for writing this awesome tutorial? You are welcome to send any amount of BTC to this address: 1AQzWPHYhbsh9sDr5PMtEWHsdVtqU6praw

If you do, I'll gladly give you 5/5 shrooms :sun: :heart:

Thanks for reading, and good luck with all your BTC endeavours, may your online wallets stay safe.


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: deadwk]
    #19116780 - 11/10/13 07:27 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

reserving post for future additions.


To come:

Browser Security and how it affects your security of your wallet.


Edited by deadwk (11/10/13 07:34 PM)


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: deadwk]
    #19117462 - 11/10/13 09:39 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Thanks for this post.  Maybe you answered this question at a point further down than I have already read, but would you recommend a specific SECURE email to use?  (preferrably Tor compatible)


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: Celestial Traveler]
    #19117601 - 11/10/13 10:04 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I would say most emails are Tor compatible, it just really depends whether the provider will accept Tor connections or not.

I'm not sure if there are any deepweb email sites kicking, I'm sure there are, but how "public" are they? I really don't know, the only one I knew of was tormail and that's long gone. You could probably find out with some time, but I can't help you out with that, sorry!


If you can't infd a .onion (Tor site) I'd search around google for emails with keyword searches like "secure email" "encrypted email" "safe email" things like that. Then google search each individual email provider you find, and see what the public opinion is about it. Then try and register a test account through the TOR network. The one thing you should know about connecting to clearnet sites (non .onion) is that your traffic goes from encrypted tor network, to unencrypted clearnet. Tor provides the best level of anonymity when using .onion sites, and a reduced level of anonymity when using clearnet sites.

If you can't find one, you could always resort to using something like yahoo mail + tor (providing they accept tor connections) and encrypt all messages with PGP.

I would really look at your situation and think do you really need a secure email like ye' old tormail for your blockchain account. If your just worried about the safety of the account, I wouldn't really bother going for a "Secure email" provider, or a Tor network email provider. If that email gets hacked, chances are your regular gmail account would be just as likely to get hacked. I use one of the most common and mainstream email providers for my blockchain account.

Simply using the shared address for receiving btc, and shared send for the sending of BTC is pretty darn good for the anonymization (so not a real word :rofl) of your BTC. This does nothing to not associate your real IP with your wallet, which I guess is what you're after, so if that's the case, then by all means go for the secure email + tor shin dig.

But hey, it's better to be safe then sorry!


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: deadwk]
    #19118251 - 11/11/13 12:19 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Another question - You strongly recommend against accessing BlockChain via Tor for several reasons.  However isn't it very important for people to access their Bitcoin wallet through Tor in order to retain their anonymity?

You also say
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I suggest you don't access your account through the TOR network as this can lead to your account being compromised by a malicious TOR exit node





Can you please elaborate on this, and how much of a risk this is?  I just feel that if somebody is really seeking to be anonymity and privacy over their Bitcoin exchanges, it would be stupid of them NOT to access their wallet via Tor.


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: Celestial Traveler]
    #19118484 - 11/11/13 01:16 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Well it depends on what exactly you are doing with your bitcoin wallet. If for example, you are conducting money laundering operations, then yes it would be a good idea to access your wallet through TOR.  If you're using BTC to buy drugs online, then it's up to you whether or not you want to use Tor. If you're just using BTC for legal purchases, why use Tor? :shrug:


I should've clarified that what I said only applies to traffic that isn't contained in the Tor network.

When you are using the Tor network, to access various hidden services (.onion sites) your traffic stays solely within the Tor network, and is always encrypted. It's encrypted from you, to your destination, and back from your destination to you, no problem here!

When you are using the Tor network, to access clearnet services (non .onion) your traffic stays encrypted within the Tor network, but then it has to leave the Tor network to reach the outside world. When this happens, it gets decrypted and if someone sets up a malicious node they can sniff your traffic, and make it possible to see what you're doing. Your traffic is encrypted from you, throughout the tor network, decrypted at the exit node, and sent to the clearnet servers. At this exit node, your traffic can be sniffed and data can be retrieved.


So when accessing Blockchain, you are using a clearnet site. Your traffic will be sniffable at the exit node if it is a malicious node. How often can this happen? Not entirely sure, but it is a potential threat nonetheless. It's up to you to weigh whether or not to face this risk.

If you're using BTC for purposes that would require the use of Tor, chances are you won't have the BTC sitting in your account for long enough for this risk to pose any immediate threat, so go ahead and use Tor.


This guide wasn't written with legal intentions in mind, so thats why I did not advocate the use of Tor.


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: deadwk]
    #19120669 - 11/11/13 01:38 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

OP do you know anything about bitcoin QT and downloading the blockchain and why one would want to/need to do this?


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: deadwk]
    #19121154 - 11/11/13 03:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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thedeadwalkk said:
Well it depends on what exactly you are doing with your bitcoin wallet. If for example, you are conducting money laundering operations, then yes it would be a good idea to access your wallet through TOR.  If you're using BTC to buy drugs online, then it's up to you whether or not you want to use Tor. If you're just using BTC for legal purchases, why use Tor? :shrug:



To help insure the anonymous nature of BTC. Thats the whole reason of BTC is to have anonymous transactions.


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: Ellis Dee]
    #19121174 - 11/11/13 03:18 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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To help insure the anonymous nature of BTC. Thats the whole reason of BTC is to have anonymous transactions.




In the quote you quoted me on I said
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If you're just using BTC for legal purchases, why use Tor?




Tumbling with BTC provides more then enough anonymity for legal purchases. If you're conducting illegal purchases go ahead and use Tor. Plus if you're using online wallets, any ips that get logged in the blockchain network won't be yours. So the only way you'll be deanonymized is if your the target of a federal investigation, but if you're using BTC for legal purposes, that won't happen, thus no Tor is needed.


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OP do you know anything about bitcoin QT and downloading the blockchain and why one would want to/need to do this?




bitcoin QT is a desktop wallet client; You need to download the blockchain to sync up with the entire bitcoin network which allows your wallet to function normally and in sync with everyone else.


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: deadwk]
    #19123290 - 11/11/13 08:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Ok OP, so to the malicious exit node dilemna.

When you use Tor to access cleanweb sites, malicious exit nodes can see what you're doing.  In that case it would be very convenient if one could find a BTC wallet that was within the TOR network (.onion) would it not?  If this is true then would you have a deepweb BTC site that you would recommend?  If this question is against forum guidelines then feel free to ignore it.


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: Celestial Traveler]
    #19129341 - 11/12/13 11:34 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Yea they can see the websites your visiting, and intercept encrypted traffic and attempt to crack the encryption. Which if your visiting SSL/TLS sites, it's not that difficult.

Yup! If you can find a trusted BTC wallet within the TOR network then by all means go for it! HOWEVER take caution with this as it could be a phony site setup to steal your bitcoins. Plus if it's on the Tor network, you have no assurance as to who owns it like you get with blockchain.

Sorry, I don't give recommendations on deepweb sites :sun:


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: deadwk]
    #19135970 - 11/14/13 12:18 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Thanks for this write-up. I now realize that using Bitcoin is about five times more complicated and tedious than I thought it would be. Good to know.


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: JB76]
    #19136619 - 11/14/13 03:17 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

It's honestly not too bad; You can use bitcoins, and a blockchain wallet without securing it to this level, but that exposes risks to your account getting hacked. Doing this make it very hard to get into for an attacker.


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: deadwk]
    #19137148 - 11/14/13 05:04 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I make my private keys off line and store my coins in those accounts.  Only when I want to spend or sell them do I bother putting them in a local wallet or blockchain.info.


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: deadwk]
    #19143092 - 11/15/13 10:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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I suggest you do this from an OS such as Linux simply for the fact that Windows is plagued with viruses, and if the system you are using is infected with virsuses, you're screwed!




even linux or mac inst safe
JRat - remote administrator tool
Best bet is to do cold storage on a pc that has no connection to the internet and save info on 2 usb's one you keep at a safe place and one that you'll use to load bitcoin to blockchain in just the amount you plan to use so if you do get hijacked aka ratted malware virus not all of your coin is gone.

Electrum - Pc storage client
How to use Electrum

after you download Eletrum you could add funds to you blockchain account run them threw bitfogger then send them to where ever you'd like what coin you would like to keep safe send to you Electrum wallet for safe keeping


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: Yuri.Pono]
    #19143112 - 11/15/13 10:05 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

good write up btw wasnt shitting on ya just trying to point in the right direction


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: DieCommie]
    #19145518 - 11/16/13 02:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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I make my private keys off line and store my coins in those accounts.  Only when I want to spend or sell them do I bother putting them in a local wallet or blockchain.info.



How do you use bitcoins with a wallet on your own PC and how do you back it up? I don't trust any web based interface as much as my own computer. Thanks.


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: Ellis Dee]
    #19147450 - 11/16/13 09:33 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Linux and Mac aren't entirely secure (I never said that in my post :wink:) but they are certainly far more secure than a PC, and you are less likely to encounter a virus,malware, etc.. on a Linux box.

You are correct though, your best bet is to use offline cold storage, but unless you have a thorough understanding of what you are doing, it is easy to screw up.

You mention using a PC that has no internet connection, and USB devices to transfer files off. These USB devices can get infected by viruses as well though so you need to take that into concern as well as teh security of the computer you will be using to transfer the funds to your blockchain account.


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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: Ellis Dee] * 1
    #19153780 - 11/18/13 11:52 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: DieCommie]
    #19162065 - 11/19/13 09:03 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

That is a great a detailed explanation. In the next couple days I'll download that program and experiment with it. BTC intrigues me. While highly speculative and unstable it might be the birth of a new currency. Or governments might conspire to destroy it as it undermines their ability to control people by economic means. I'd like to speculate and mine a bit while it lasts though, profit in some minor way. If I have any more questions about setting it up I might PM you.

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Re: How to use online BTC wallets and secure them with blockchain.info (+pictures) [Re: Ellis Dee]
    #19170545 - 11/21/13 03:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Just posting for reference:thumbup:


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