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by wtvanhest 4569 days ago
I've been on the sidelines for BitCoin for the past few years, but it appears to me that it is gaining adoption at least at the early adopter stage and has an insanely long way to go but is becoming increasingly interesting.

I'm researching BitCoin to try to have a really in depth understanding of it. What is the best, even if complex, paper/blog/website on how to properly secure bitcoins?

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You can take a look at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_your_wallet and maybe less directly relevant, but still good information is https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses .

Personally, I keep my btc wallet.dat file in a AES encrypted diskimage (sparsebundle on OS X) in my Dropbox, and then symlink that file to the place where it needs to be on the computer. My wallet is always backed up, and secure enough (you need either physical access to my computer and get the password right, or, access to my dropbox account and, again, the password for the wallet diskimage).

Quite content with my setup, I just mount the diskimage before I open my Wallet application...

Thanks!