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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Type of wallets and questions
by
Jumperman4
on 12/04/2020, 23:35:21 UTC
If you want a paper wallet I wouldn't generate it on a computer with bitaddress.org script or similar. Why not just create a new wallet with your hardware wallet and write the recovery words on a piece of paper? You can then reset your hardware wallet if you are confident you correctly wrote/memorized the recovery words and placed them in a safe place. If you generate a wallet with Bitaddress or such script, you run the risk that your computer is infected by private key stealing malware which will send over your key to a remote server as soon as it gets an Internet connection.

That is a very, very fair point. I cant argue it. However I guess I like the aesthetics of the paperwallet. Or vanitygen wallet. But I guess you're right!