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Board Beginners & Help
Re: [General] Bitcoin Wallets - Which, what, why?
by
Lauda
on 01/11/2017, 09:04:05 UTC
1) Working offline generate address and private key at bitaddress.org - basicaly a paper wallet but I do not want to print it.
I don't recommend using this website. If you really insist, then you need to save it as a .html and use offline.

2) Back up my private key in note files on 3 different USB flash drives. I know the machine and the drives have to be uncompromised.
Encrypt your USB drives.

3) Send a small amount of my coins from Kraken to the address I created; check the blockchain if it is received; send the full amount to the same address if everything is OK.
Sure.

I need long term cold storage but I want to keep it simple. As I understand I have to inport the private key in a software later in order to send the money back to exchange again? But everything is OK as long as I have the private key?
Yes and yes.

1: should I do it?
If you have a significant amount of money in Bitcoin, absolutely. There are alternatives though, e.g. a hardware wallet.

2: can I do it for alt coins too?
Not all altcoins have something like bitaddress.org, but I take it that you should be able to do something like this for the major ones.