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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: seed storage
by
BitcoinNewsMagazine
on 27/11/2017, 01:22:58 UTC
So I'm not completely comfortable with having my seeds stored on paper in my house.  I'm no more comfortable than I would be having a pile of cash stored in a drawer.  I was wondering if this would be safe, or safer?:  Take an old iPhone, disconnect it from the internet and store the seed in a password protected app on the phone?  At least if someone found it, they would have to get past 2 more security levels (the fingerprint unlock and then the password app code).  Knowing that the phone in the past has been connected to the internet, would it be safe if I turned off the wifi?  I figure once BTC passes $50,000 my paranoia will be such that I'll probably get a safe deposit box.  What do you think?  Safe?  Would it be safer than a password protected USB stick, if there is such a thing?

Use a safe or a safety deposit box. For another layer of protection you can store the seed in a Veracrypt encrypted container stored on a flash drive. The one thing you do not ever want to do is store your seed (even encrypted) online on Dropbox or Google Drive etc.