How To Secure Your Bitcoin.Com Wallet
When it comes to saving your Digital assets, Security matters a lot because no one would want to risk his assets to cyber insecurities, hackers and theft. Some times it might not necessarily be because of the aforementioned reasons but what happens if you get to miss your device or it develops a fault? How do you get back access to your digital assets?
Well, If you are looking forward to setting such security measures on your Bitcoin.com wallet, this article is made to guide you through.
The Bitcoin.com wallet is one of the fastest and secured wallet ever although it only has the capability to store just Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash.
How To Secure Your Bitcoin.com Wallets
Cloud Backup
Cloud Backup is also known as an online Back up, a strategy of sending a copy of database to a secondary storage for preservation. This measure on Bitcoin.com wallet allows you to store your private keys on your Google account by signing in with your email address.
Open your bitcoin.com wallet
Tap on the setting icon below the home interface
Tap on Security Center
Sign it to you Google account where your find 'Cloud Backup'.
Note: Once signed up, a copy of your recovery file is automatically saved to your Google account. Also, it is recommended that a copy of your recovery file should be exported to an external location for safekeeping.
How To Export Your Recovery File
Once your Google account have been signed up to the Bitcoin.com wallet, tap on the Export wallet file. A file named 'wallet.data' will be created, then you can choose a location to store it.
Manual Backup
This option gives you a Manual access to your wallets through a Recovery Phrase.
A Recovery Phrase, usually 12 Words are security keys generated by your wallet to manually Grant you access to your wallet from any device. These words help you recover your funds in case your computer crashes or anything else happens which prevents you from accessing your wallet.
On the Bitcoin.com wallet, these steps will help you get your Recovery Phrase;
Open your Bitcoin.com Wallet
Tap on the Setting icon on your wallet's home interface
Tap on 'Security Center' then 'Manual Backup'.
Click on your wallets, Copy your Recovery Phrase and save them in a safe place or write them down.
How To Recover Your Bitcoin.com Wallet
Now, Incase you are reading this with the Aim of recovering your wallets, then the steps below should guide you.
Note that wallets can only be recovered if your recovery file was backed up or if you had your recovery phrases written down.
If you have your recovery phrase, here's how to recover your wallet.
Download and install the Bitcoin.com wallet
Open the Wallet and locate 'Add' to add your lost wallet
Tap on Import wallet, Choose the Digital asset you wish to recover
Enter your Recovery Phrase.
You can equally Recover Your wallet using the Recovery file, tap on Backup file/Text, paste your backup plain text code then enter your Password.
Note: Ensure that your Recovery File/Phrase is being kept private to avoid third party access to your wallet.
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