Today we’re talking about keeping your bitcoins safe. Get your bitcoins off of exchanges as soon as possible and move them in to some mix of software wallets and cold storage. I discussed various wallets and risk versus convenience.

Show Notes

Market Minute:

BTC price: $8457

Finney(0.00001 BTC): $0.84

24 hour volume: $7.5B / 905k BTC

Market cap: $142 billion

Coins in Circulation: 16.8M

@tipmayermultiple: 200dma – 8021.15, mayer multiple=1.05x

Transaction fees: 69sats/Byte(24) 74.5sats/Byte(7d)

Suggested fees (sats/B): 91.3next block, 10 next hour, 4.9 same day

localbitcoins – $102.8M(global)/ $7.1M(USA) last 7 days

bisq – $272k(global)/ $24.5k(USA) last 7 days

Software Wallets:

Bitcoin Core

Electrum

Samourai

Bread

Hardware Wallets:

Trezor

Ledger

Opendime

Coldcard

Paper Wallets:

Infographic on Paper Wallets

Paper wallets video

Other Links:

Blockstream Satellite Secure your wallet from Bitcoin.org

Paper Wallets

Glacier Protocol

Bitfinex redistributes coins after losses

Mt.Gox – worst exchange hacking

BTC-e users caught in limbo

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Morning Ritual by L’Indecis

Chillhop Records

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