[OPSEC/Computer] What is the best anonymous bitcoin-wallet to store dnm-related coins?

Hi. I am a huge bitcoin advocate, not just for it being the currency of one of my favorite things... dnms. And was wondering what was the safest, most anonymous, untrackable bitcoin wallet to store dnm-related coins?

I don't use coins just for dnm purchases, I collect them too. And for now I just have been using the bitcoin-qt client, however it's pretty slow with the hashrates and shit and would prefer something else. What's best for this sort of thing to remain anonymous when depositing/withdrawing bitcoins from dark net market wallets?

One factor that I do particularly enjoy is that the multiple inputs from when I make a withdrawal from a marketplace, and when I deposit the btc address changes each time. However is this enough to remain anonymous with bitcoin? I want to remain anonymous from the marketplaces too (just in case you know)

Once again, I'm just a big bitcoin advocate who also makes a lot of bulk purchases from time to time, lol and want to maintain the most privacy possible. So what wallet can provide this for me? Electrum? Hive? Mycellium? Greenaddress? Blockchain?

I'm just tired of bitcoin-qt and want more privacy

p.s. - are tumblers like grams necessary? I'm talking around the range of 30+ bitcoins usually in my wallet if that means anything so it isn't like too sketchy..


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[3 Points] DOZENS_OF_BUTTS:

I recommend Electrum, which is now bundled with the newest release of TAILS. You generate a 12 word seed (or write your own using only words from this list) and that seed is used clientside to generate the same handful of bitcoin addresses every time. Your keys never need to be stored anywhere.

Personally, I buy and sell all my bitcoins anonymously so I don't find tumblers to really be necessary. There are a huge number of bitcoin transactions every day, and I'm confident that nothing I'm doing is nearly high profile enough to warrant such a huge search through the blockchain for dirt on me.


[3 Points] sapiophile:

There are not really Bitcoin wallets that are "more" anonymous than others, except in how you use them. The exception to this is SPV and other "Thin" wallets like Electrum, which will query a central server with all of the addresses it controls to find out their balance, thereby showing the server administrator that those addresses are linked to together.

Therefore, Bitcoin Core (it's not called Bitcoin-Qt anymore, and if your program is called Bitcoin-Qt you ought to update it) is about as "anonymous" as a Bitcoin wallet gets if you use it through Tor - but this is not a great idea, so keep reading. DarkWallet is still in alpha and is not mature yet (this is not to be taken lightly - DO NOT USE IT if you have real security requirements), and CoinJoin is pretty flawed, anyway (wait for a real CoinShuffle implementation). The problem with full node clients, though, like Bitcoin Core or Armory, is that they must download and process the entire blockchain (approaching 30GB nowadays), so they are pretty impractical to use over Tor. See below for my recommendation.

For that kind of amount of money, you should really, really be storing most of it in an offline paper wallet. You can still keep some in a hot wallet for spending, and it isn't too difficult to spend off a paper wallet anyway - just make sure to sweep the address completely. You could also just boot up Tails and create a new Electrum wallet, then write down the 12-word Seed and a few receiving addresses, then send most of your coins to that as your paper wallet - this has less opportunity to screw things up and lose your coins.

Honestly dude, the lack of understanding that's shown by the way you're asking this question and the way you've commented here are going to have a much greater impact on your wallet's "anonymity" than what software you use to store your Bitcoin. I strongly suggest that you study how Bitcoin works and what a Bitcoin wallet is a lot more before looking for a piece of software to do the impossible and hold your hand through it all.

Just don't use any kind of phone wallet (lol at the "vendor" who uses Mycelium in this thread?) if anonymity is important to you. All the major smartphone OSs are not trustworthy, and they also (by their nature) have an enormous amount of correlative data on other aspects of your identity. Avoid them.

The long and short of it: boot up from the latest version of Tails, create a new Electrum wallet, write down the 12-word Seed and a couple of its receiving addresses on some paper, hopefully a couple of copies written BY HAND, and transfer your coins to it. Know that the strongest piece of data against your anonymity in doing that is that the different receiving addresses of that wallet will be known to be controlled by the same person, but that person's identity will almost certainly not be known.


[1 Points] zx88crackingforum:

Use a paper wallet.


[1 Points] JesusdiedLOLOL:

Use a wallet on your PC


[1 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

If you know what you're doing and are actually planning on holding that much money in your wallet, I would suggest looking into Armory. It's by far the most secure wallet option and I do believe it can be configured to run through TOR as well.


[1 Points] sobulbous:

Definitely not Hive, its main purpose is simplicity and it uses one address for all transactions. Electrum is the most recommended on this sub.

Since you are a self admitted aficionado and want offline storage with the ability to move coins then look into grabbing a Trezor.


[-1 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

Mycelium wallet for android mobile phones is a vendor favorite. It cycles through a bunch of wallet addresses.

If you're going to buy or sell bitcoin for cash, the way it was meant to happen, you need a phone wallet.

Apple don't like bitcoin so you're not allowed to use it because you never truly own an i-phone. Apple just let you rent it until they break it with a software update.

Bitcoin QT is good because it has its own local copy of the blockchain, so keep that too unless you're in the UK (If you're British don't worry about it. Its unhealthy for too much of the bitcoin infrastructure to be concentrated in one country)