Paper wallets

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  1. goldpelican

    goldpelican Administrator Staff Member

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    Who here is using them?

    Yet another exchange has suffered a security breach resulting in lost bitcoins for wallet holders:

    http://www.coindesk.com/czech-bitcoin-exchange-bitcash-cz-hacked-4000-user-wallets-emptied/

    I've printed paper wallets before from www.bitaddress.org - looks like there's a number of online paper wallet generators now, as well as more secure offline scripts that can be downloaded.

    Any reported instances of bitcoin losses originating from an online generated paper wallet?
     
  2. RetardedMonkey

    RetardedMonkey Active Member Silver Stacker

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    More and more reason to keep your Bitcoin's off managed wallets/exchanges as much as possible.
     
  3. Phiber

    Phiber Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Best to run the script off a live bootable CD with internet switched off.
     

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