Power of paper

Hello Folks!

I have just arrived home after my 12 hour bus travel from the capital and well, it was tiring. After a long sleep and well, now a ganoderma mushroom coffee, I think I am ok now.

It took quite awhile for me to figure out exactly what to talk about today and, apart from wanting to bolt from the idea of discussing this, I think its one of the "fly on the wall" that beginners like me find difficult to discuss, recognize, ask or even use. I will be talking exactly how I was able to acquire my paper wallets.

I am not going to be hypocrite and tell you guys that I do not have random fears or doubts about cryptocurrency when I started especially because of my previous experiences. It was really terrible I said to myself that I would simply give up because of a random bump on the road- so to speak and so, the first thing that I decided to do after my PONZI disaster was research more on security.

Being a crypto enthusiast even if I did start my journey by simply earning my first coins by faucet claims, I realized that I needed a place to store them. I of course opted for something that is cheap, accessible and very much secured option but, my budget is limited and, I just do not want to invest on something that I do not have concrete idea or, my knowledge is pretty basic.

There is also the factor wherein people around me are starting to say that I am acting very weird because of my belief in the blockchain. Not that I go around muttering random things like BITCOIN! SATOSHI or whatever cryptocurrency cliche' you guys might think of. I did not also jump into the wagon of people who suddenly have the compulsion to wear one of these

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use items like these

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my, even eat or drink from one like

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just to let everyone know of my current interests or obsession.

I just thought on those weeks that I needed first to make sure that whatever I earn would be locked in a place where I do have full control and easy access to.

Doing that on a limited fund and on someone who fairly does not know the difference of hot, cold or warm wallet is difficult. Its also seem to complicate things up because I do not want to shell off any fund.

One time, I read in one of the sites I visited the use of paper wallets and how it does have a leverage over digital ones.

Apart from the physical limitations of paper which can be burnt, easily damaged, torn, and well, basically, its a fragile thing to use, I have decided to make one for myself anyway.

I of course did not fully entrust my faith in a single piece of paper with my wallet address and pray hard that the natural elements will not spare it. Nor did I lose sleep thinking that anytime, my storage place would be raided by rats, vermins or whatnots. I simply created my wallet, printed a copy which I kept in a secure place and, stored a back up copy in a usb which I kept secured in another location.

The next thing that I did when I have finally committed with it is this: what coin should I start with. I certainly do not want to start with my bitcoin satoshi or any other alt coin that I thought would have more value so, I started with my doge.

It worked like a charm. In fact, after realizing the ease of printing and using paper wallets, I just thought that perhaps simple things can truly provide amazing solutions.

Today, though I started printing something that looks like this

(my paperwallet spread out- the public address is the one used to make deposits and the security key is the one utilized to make withdrawals)

I opted for simple, more innocent look and just chuck it off randomly in my place.

(I covered the security key- which was in qr code for security reasons)

Who would suspect anything? In my place, bitcoin,cryptocurrency and blockchains were still worlds away. So if there is any logical way of storing my coins, its this. Not in a hardware which might look more attractive than than this.

@crypto.piotr @intellihandling @krypterion @simplymike