{"id":93719,"date":"2019-07-16T08:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T15:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=93719"},"modified":"2019-08-28T00:34:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T07:34:49","slug":"what-is-a-paper-wallet-do-i-need-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/what-is-a-paper-wallet-do-i-need-one","title":{"rendered":"What is a \u2018paper wallet?\u2019 Do I need one?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post is structured as a question-&amp;-answer. That\u2019s because it was originally an answer at Quora, a Q&amp;A site at which I am a Bitcoin columnist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>What is a \u2018Paper Wallet\u2019<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/awildduck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/paper_wallet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/awildduck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/paper_wallet-1024x548.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6105\" width=\"276\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A paper wallet is the ultimate offline wallet. It simply means that the private address to your crypto wallet is printed on paper \u2014 either as a string of characters, a QR code, or a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bitcoin.it\/wiki\/Seed_phrase\">seed recovery words<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you destroy any electronic copy of your original wallet (e.g. the private keys that give you access to your wealth), then hiding this piece of paper is very similar to hiding a bar of gold. The only way that someone can steal it or know the amount it represents is to get their eyes and hands on something physical. They would need to know that you tucked it into your mattress or behind a secret panel of your cellar wall.<\/p><div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/what-is-a-paper-wallet-do-i-need-one\">Continue reading \u201cWhat is a \u2018paper wallet?\u2019 Do I need one?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is structured as a question-&amp;-answer. That\u2019s because it was originally an answer at Quora, a Q&amp;A site at which I am a Bitcoin columnist. What is a \u2018Paper Wallet\u2019 A paper wallet is the ultimate offline wallet. It simply means that the private address to your crypto wallet is printed on paper \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,39],"tags":[3212,3441,3213,3216,3217,3218,2927,3442,3440],"class_list":["post-93719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-economics","tag-bitcoin-wallet","tag-crypto-wallet","tag-cryptocurrency-wallet","tag-exchange-wallet","tag-hardware-wallet","tag-hosted-wallet","tag-paper-wallet","tag-wallet-apps","tag-which-bitcoin-wallet-is-best"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93719"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95412,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93719\/revisions\/95412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}