Hi! I hold my Dnotes in c-cex exchange,that is safe? Where is the best place to holding my notes?
Hi suziebirds, I would recommend using
DNotesVault. All DNotes stored on the vault are kept in offline cold storage and are fully backed by a guarantee fund, making it the safest place by far to store your DNotes. DNotesVault will also help make the transition to DNotes 2.0 and proof of stake much easier. Instead of swapping your DNotes 1.0 for DNotes 2.0 manually, the process will be taken care of for you and you can go on using DNotes as usual.
www.dnotesvault.com is the place to store your DNotes
In addition to what DNotesEDU mentioned. The exchange is certainly where you want your funds for active trading. However, it's not a good practice to store them there long term as we have had a couple instances of exchanges getting hacked, or even going bankrupt, in which many users may lose their funds. The other alternative to DNotesVault is downloading your own wallet, which you can get at DNotesCoin.com. However, you will need to know how to properly protect your wallet.
Here is a basic process of securing your own wallet, this is not 100% secure against would be malware and viruses designed to collect information from your PC:
Download the DNotes Wallet from DNotesCoin.com
Unplug your internet cable or turn off your WiFi (Optional)
Unzip the downloaded files.
Open dnotes-qt.exe
Click Settings, then Encrypt Wallet
Enter a new password (Make sure you don't lose this password, best to write it down)
The program will close and you may re-open it.
Then you will want to backup your wallet file. Click File then Backup Wallet. Save it to a USB device, or in multiple offline drives locations if possible.
Be sure to copy your wallet address down somewhere as well, click Receive Coins and you can right click and copy the address, I would recommend saving that address to a text file so you can access it easily later.
Then you can close the program.
If you want to keep your wallet file only on offline devices, such as a USB stick... Once you have your wallet file backed up on those devices, you can remove the DNotes wallet files from your PC. On a Windows PC they will likely be located in the following folder: C:\Users\YOURWINDOWSUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\DNotes
There are other methods that would be 100% secure, such as using a dedicated offline computer, or creating the wallet on an offline computer and wiping out all the data afterwards. I can outline those options if anyone needs as well.