Quote from: JayJuanGee on March 19, 2014, 12:46:03 AM

Quote from: solarflare on March 19, 2014, 12:25:55 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on March 19, 2014, 12:14:38 AM

O.k. I decided to take some advice from 686f646c (as cautioned above), and I moved 9 BTC from BTC e to a Blockchain.info wallet. It took me nearly a week to accomplish this BTC movement b/c there were technical SNAFUs with my e-mail confirmations to BTC e. I thought that I had confirmed with BTC e via e-mail, and then after three days, my BTC were still in the transfer section of the BTC e fund. Thereafter, I submitted a ticket and got some weird-ass quasi non-responsive e-mails from BTC e support, which made me suspect that the BTC e support English skills are NOT too good.

I then presented my issue in the BTC e troll box, and a couple responders reminded me to make sure that I adequately went through the e-mail confirmation process, which assisted me to identify the problem was that I had NOT properly confirmed.

Anyhow, now I am fixed, and I have removed 9 BTC from BTC e, and put those 9 BTC into a blockchain wallet.... which also caused me concern, yesterday, when blockchain.info was down for quite a long time (more than 10 hours?)

Don't forget to offline some.

I have NOT gotten that far in my bitcoin storage experiment, yet.

So, currently, I have coins distributed in Localbitcoins, BTC e, Coinbase and Blockchain. I am working on traveling, so I remain a little bit worried about the practicality and utility of off-line storage. But, I realize that, at some point, I will likely need to practice with off line storage.

Surely, I am looking forward to someday solutions for these kinds of matters, including somehow making it easier to safekeep all my BTC in case anything were to happen to me, then I would be able to pass BTC to my intended heirs rather than donating them to the bitcoin network.

its really not very hard.

goto https://www.bitaddress.org/
print out a paper wallet
send coins!

you can even save this page (it will run without internet connection) so you can generate and print these paper wallets on an offline computer, making damn sure these keys only will ever exist on the paper you printed them on.

after printing these keys, i recommend making cutting the paper wallet in half and putting half of the key in safety deposit box in a bank.

because paranoid.

OR try this a super simple 0 headache 100% safe way of generating paper wallets -> http://piperwallet.com/