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by briantmaurer 3263 days ago
What is a good way to create a personal bitcoin wallet?

p.s. I studied computer science, am reasonably fluent in computer security, but not a crypto or bitcoin expert.

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https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

Some self-education links at the bottom as well.

Depends on your level of paranoia. I use an encrypted file on disk to store a client and keys. I back this up offsite incase I get ransomwared. That's good enough for me.

The super paranoid roll dice to generate the private key, use a totally offline computer to convert those dice rolls into an address.

Blockchain.info, but not sure how they intend to handle the fork. May be best to set up a personal wallet using the mentioned link
Blockchain.info doesn't give you control over your own keys IIRC. Use an actual client, not a website.