Security implications of regular saving into cold storage
Security implications of regular saving into cold storage I am thinking about following this plan: Regularly buy bitcoins in an online exchange, 100€/month at market prices. Once the balance in the exchange exceeds a certain limit (500€), move those bitcoins to cold storage, as long-term savings. (the reason why I want to do 2 is that I do not feel I really own bitcoins until they are in a wallet under my control) With this scheme I would be transferring to my cold wallet a couple of times per year. I have read that reusing a bitcoin address is not recommended. I am worried about these two facts: Will reusing my cold-storage address decrease the security of my cold-storage wallet? The balance of the offline wallet will be visible on the blockchain. I have read about privacy implications of having several parties transfer to a single bitcoin address (employer being able to see my rent, for example), but since the only one transferring to this account will be myself, from the ac...