If you are fed up with all the waiting time nonsense for a hardware wallet - because of the massive volume as of late, to get a Ledger Nano S you have to wait till September, to get a Trezor you have to wait till August OR go for a premium price — and you also like bitcoin wallet diy take matters into your own hands, then it is time to think outside of the box and try out a good alternative: Check the official website https: The shipping was FREE by the way and my order was delivered in 2 days I ordered on Monday evening last week and received the kit on Wednesday morning.
So much for waiting till September…. Since I bought the micro-SD separately, I had to connect the SD adapter to my laptop and follow the installation guide I mentioned before. After all was set and done, I inserted the micro-SD in my Raspberry Pi — basically the micro-SD will act as a genuine hard-drive you can see where to put the micro-SD in the image below, no need to second guess, it will only fit in one way and one way only.
If you installed Raspbian OS like me on a laptop using the bitcoin wallet diy guide linked above, the system will be ready to operate, no extra steps involved when you first run your Raspberry Pi.
I tried two guides: I solved one error and another, more menacing one appeared. Bitcoin wallet diy can try the options above for full security, maybe they will work for you or maybe you will find a solution to those errors. As I mentioned I am not a tech guy and still learning how Linux works. Yes, that includes bitcoin wallet diy I am writing here!!! If you want to bitcoin wallet diy the Electrum Bitcoin Wallet, open the terminal the prompt icon in the top bar and go ahead and write:.
Depending on your Internet connection, you will wait some time before installing all the programs necessary for the Electrum Wallet to run properly. In case bitcoin wallet diy wonder what this lines means, pi is your user and raspberrypi is the name of your mini-PC. You would be able to read something like the installation was a success if everything went smoothly followed obviously by the pi raspberrypi: If you want to install Electrum Litecoin Wallet, go to their website, click Download and follow the steps in bitcoin wallet diy Linux box one line at a time:.
After the installation is completed and bitcoin wallet diy can see the pi raspberrypi: The followed by on Ubuntu Make sure you are completely offline, all possible connections are cut off Turn OFF the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and only then, in the terminal, write:.
Well by default Bitcoin wallet diy Bitcoin Wallet looks for a connection to the Internet and to the Bitcoin network and -o means we command electrum to open in the offline mode. A window will open signaling the creation of a new wallet. Encrypt bitcoin wallet diy wallet with a strong password, write down the seed and NEVER use a text doc to just copy and paste the seed. Your seed bitcoin wallet diy your key to your wallet basically — If the wallet happens to get corrupted or you lose your password, you can restore your wallet with this SEED.
Wait for Electrum to generate the wallet and after the process is bitcoin wallet diy you will have a view of your empty wallet. Go to your day-to-day computer connected to the Internet, install Electrum Bitcoin Wallet bitcoin wallet diy that computer, and open the program afterwards. Choose the following options in the wizard Standard Wallet What kind of wallet do you want to create? Click next and wait for this pop-up to appear:. Take a peek from time to time in case your forgot the balance and receive bitcoins; you can ONLY send funds bitcoin wallet diy you decide to use your Raspberry Offline Wallet.
But how do you send funds bitcoin wallet diy the Raspberry Wallet will forever remain offline, you wonder? There you will see how you can create an offline and watch-only wallet as presented above and how you send bitcoins by creating unsigned transactions and signing them using your Raspberry Pi wallet.
If you want to install the Electrum Bitcoin Wallet, open the bitcoin wallet diy the prompt icon in the top bar and go ahead and write: In our case we need something called python-qt4 and python-pip required for Electrum to run properly. If you want to install Electrum Litecoin Wallet, go to their website, click Download and follow the steps in the Linux box one line at a time: Wait for the entire installation to be completed.
Make sure you are bitcoin wallet diy offline, all possible connections are cut off Turn OFF the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and only then, in the terminal, write: Click next and wait for this pop-up to appear: I must repeat that this is not actually a pure air-gapped offline wallet since you have to connect to the Internet, download and install Electrum and its dependencies.
That means the system can be compromised. If you found a way to download and install Electrum offline on the Raspberry Pi, thus creating a pure air-gapped wallet, please leave a comment below explaining how you did it. That being said, the chances of compromising the wallet just by downloading and installing Electrum are very slim.
As long as you stick to the terminal, give the right instructions and afterwards, never connect the Raspberry wallet to the Internet ever again, you should be fine. There is also a chance the bitcoin wallet diy can be comprised if you used a compromised USB stick to moves things around bitcoin wallet diy the offline and the watch-only wallet master public keys, transactions.
You can also buy a camera for the Raspberry and use it to read QR codes, that definitely bitcoin wallet diy extra security. I never copy any files other than public keys and transaction files.
I recommend you to do the same if you want to use a USB stick. Just use what official sites like bitcoin. Since there is a good chance Bitcoin will continue rising, the number of malicious attempts will increase exponentially.
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