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Re: Secure Wallet Service - would you use it?
by
Stormy
on 17/06/2011, 16:35:14 UTC
Do I take it that if there's this Trojan about that nicks your bitcoins inside wallet.dat files then you'd actually be better off just not getting a wallet? Or is that less secure. Probably a stupid question.

Question: A Paid service? Hehe...?

Basically, by keeping your wallet on a remote server, if someone hacks your home computer, they never get a copy of it, so they can't spend your Bitcoins.  Even if that person installs a virus, trojan, or keylogger on your home computer and steals your password to our site, unless they steal your cellphone too, they can't spend your coins because our service will send you a text message with a 4 digit code every time you try to spend coins.

If done properly, it should be more secure than keeping an unencrypted wallet on your home computer.