Quote from: Zeehenk on April 11, 2017, 10:25:27 AM

Quote from: Impactdev on April 11, 2017, 09:37:48 AM

Quote from: Zeehenk on April 11, 2017, 07:07:14 AM

Hey guys. What would be the best way to store my IMX coins? I want to keep a significant amount for later to see what the coin does, but they're all on exchanges now. If I download the desktop wallet, but my PC crashes.... than what? Will my coins be lost?

Cheers!

There are two ways how to do it.

First option

You can back up your wallet.dat .
Go to start, type %appdata%\impact and press the enter key. You will then be in a folder with the impact app-data.

File wallet.dat holds all private keys to your addresses. (copy this file on same safe place)

To restore your holdings. Install new wallet and paste wallet.dat into folder impact. (%appdata%\impact)

Second option

Or you can save private keys from your wallet.

For example for address:
Xn7R6GyfCwojGarEAGvj6iimo5op7uQKzM

In wallet go to console and write:
dumpprivkey Xn7R6GyfCwojGarEAGvj6iimo5op7uQKzM

Wallet will give you private key to address...

output look like this:
XBr9bozqj2wzwGAbYq98qQ89bekgZe2Vj1dkNoma46Wfhn8qnpC7

For import private key, use this command:
importprivkey Xn7R6GyfCwojGarEAGvj6iimo5op7uQKzM

And that´s it. You now have access to address.
You can import private keys into any IMX wallet to get access to coins on this address.

Test:

Address Xn7R6GyfCwojGarEAGvj6iimo5op7uQKzM contains 1000 IMX coins.
The first one who will import private keys can take them. (send them to your address, before someone else will)

Private key:XBr9bozqj2wzwGAbYq98qQ89bekgZe2Vj1dkNoma46Wfhn8qnpC7

Thanks! Will choose the best option for this! I think I can conclude that keeping everything on an exchange is not the right way to go at it...?

Always maintain a copy of your last encrypted wallet.dat file in a safe place with most of your coins. You can learn it in the easy way like this or you can be goxxed like me (more than 40 BTC lost... Cry

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