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Old 2015 address vulnerable? #293

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zooaka opened this issue Dec 5, 2023 · 4 comments
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Old 2015 address vulnerable? #293

zooaka opened this issue Dec 5, 2023 · 4 comments

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@zooaka
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zooaka commented Dec 5, 2023

Someone recently showed me this article:

https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/65b2f-bitcoin-wallets-created-before-2016-may-be-vulnerable-billions-at-risk.htm

I'm sure you're aware of this. I am wondering if you can help me.

In april 2015 I created 10 wallets and split my bitcoin up over them. Generated them offline on an old freshly formatted linux machine. I'm happy with my method of storage and the coins have been safe ever since. I've never been worried...until now.

I really don't want to move the coins to my hardware wallet as I have other crypto stored on there and don't like all my eggs to be in one basket.

How unsafe is an offline generated bitaddress.org wallet from 2015? do I really have to move this btc?

@zooaka zooaka changed the title Old 2015 address vulrnable? Old 2015 address vulnerable? Dec 5, 2023
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pointbiz commented Dec 5, 2023

I answered this in issue #291

2014 and newer wallets with BitAddress are fully secure and do not need to be moved.

2013 and older do need to be moved.

@zooaka
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zooaka commented Dec 5, 2023

thank you so much for your quick and very much appreciated response.

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zooaka commented Dec 5, 2023

are you still taking donations?

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pointbiz commented Dec 5, 2023

Yes.

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https://coinos.io/btccuracao

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