I'm finally about to hop on the Bitcoin rocket ship for real after waiting and waiting for 'the right time' to buy in since a btc was $400.
I want to buy 1 btc to start with, I have a wallet, but how do I make sure I don't lose my bitcoins if my computer crashes or some shit?
I ask because I have done this before, luckily it was only 0.01 btc or something.
Please advise, also any other btc related noob advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for the sell signal.
Prepare to be a bagholder OP
>>1814873
Your first mistake was worrying about when to get in. Just buy and fucking hold.
>>1814873
Also, don't store your btc on your PC. Use mycelium, electrum, or get a trezor.
>>1814897
Is there a possibility these services could to a Mt Gox?
>>1814900
They could, but if they do you won't lose your BTC, only the ability to recover them if your hardware malfunctions. On the news that one of these services fail, I would just move them to another wallet.
You shouldn't be keeping large amounts in these wallets anyways. I don't keep more than $2k in my mobile wallet. Everything else is in cold storage.
>>1814921
What's cold storage?
>>1814978
Storing bitcoin on a device that isn't connected to any network. Paper wallets in a safe are what I use.
After the Fast and the Furious Supras were also overpriced.
Remarkable resemblance.
>>1814978
use a paper wallet, you can save the site bitaddress on your computer, generate an address offline, check the public key on blockchain make sure its not used, send your bitcoins there untill you want to retrieve them with the private key you wrote down and kwep offline
Should buy ethereum instead. Bitcoin is going to create a new generation of bagholders