On Thursday, September 28, 2017, 2:19:19 PM PDT, juan <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:34:32 -0400
John Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I’ve been using electrum on android and Linux for the past 18
>> months or so, and can only second Juan’s recommendation -
>> it’s worked quite well for me. There’s even a “bitcoin atm” near
>> my house where you can deposit cash and specify a wallet
>> address (or scan a qr code) - although I haven’t used the atm
>> since prices got above 1k/btc, so it’s been a little while ;)
> For completness' sake I guess we should mention that one has to
be reasonaby sure that the machine running electrum (or other
client) isn't 'compromised' / has some sort of coin stealing
malware.
Yes, I recall reading on a blog of this potential problem. Do ordinary
anti-virus programs have the ability to detect such problems before they BECOME
real problems?
Jim Bell
>
Also, best practice is to have most of your funds in cold
storage.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage
