I’m getting into crypto and am thinking about setting up a cold storage wallet on a USB drive. Do any of you all have favorites you’d reccomend for a newbie like me?

    • Scripter_Lizard@programming.devOP
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      1 year ago

      I can understand why you would say that, but I think in the coming decade we’ll see it come into much more mainstream use. Whether or not that’s true remains to be seen. I personally don’t mind sinking a little money into it to see if it goes anywhere, but I’m not dumping my retirement into it or anything.

  • nothingbutlove@lemmyonline.com
    5·
    1 year ago

    I think the options here are driven by which coins you’d like to hold and whether you’ll be interacting with hardware wallets. If you’re thinking Bitcoin, and have a particular hardware wallet in mind for the future, perhaps give Electrum a look. BE CAREFUL WITH WHERE YOU DOWNLOAD CRYPTO SOFTWARE

    • Scripter_Lizard@programming.devOP
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      1 year ago

      For sure. I’m not installing anything without verifying it first.

      edit: I probably wouldn’t buy anything besides bitcoin and eth

  • Rentlar@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    Coin Wallet on Linux repositories have worked fine for me.

    Honestly though, crypto isn’t worth your time. And half of the USB flash drives I had 10 years ago have failed, so don’t rely on them for a long time, or keep at least 2 other backup copies elsewhere.

  • Retainer8510@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    don’t listen to people to stay out of crypto, you do you.

    Check out sparrow waller, it’s a bit shinier than Electrum wallet and open source afaik