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Re: How are big exchanges designed from a technical POV?
by
Linkeex
on 14/03/2014, 12:00:02 UTC
Hi,

so yesterday I stumbled over Kraken's Security Practices: https://www.kraken.com/security/practices
They claim:

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All new deposits go directly to cold wallets — that is, wallets that are completely isolated from any online system.

How do they do that? I would do it like this:
Generate a pool of cold wallets and store the private keys on a offline computer. Then generate all addresses and move them savely (via usb)
to the main backend. When a user now creates a deposit address it is one from the cold wallet generated addresses.
Is that correct?


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A limited number of coins are stored in semi-cold wallets — on protected machines with locked drives.
What is a semi-cold wallet?