Re: Running Bitcoin core over public wifi

Your activity should not have much of an effect on other users, however I would not recommend updating the initial information through wifi, you will be there forever. I think you would be safe for now, for there are not to many people looking to hack public wifi bitcoin access, just my opinion though.

Thanks for the warning. I'm considering using a dead mobile as offline storage. Dead as in without a network connection of course.

That is a good idea. It will hold battery life for a long while and you can connect through wifi when ever you want to use your account. That is a great idea and I think it trumps my laptop that I keep off the network until I need it. Not to many people would expect a cell phone that is out of service.

But with cell phone, you can only use online wallet. Is that safe?

Isn't there a way that you can download a wallet onto your cell phone through wifi or you could download to your computer and then back up to the storage on your cell phone. I also thought there was a cell phone app you could get to use? Just wondering.