Help me test BTC, LTC, ETH addresses

[jdb10987 at yahoo.com (jim bell)]

    On Thursday, September 28, 2017, 2:19:19 PM PDT, juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:34:32 -0400
John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:


>> Iâ??ve been using electrum on android and Linux for the past 18
>> months or so, and can only second Juanâ??s recommendation -
>> itâ??s worked quite well for me. Thereâ??s even a â??bitcoin atmâ?? near
>> my house where you can deposit cash and specify a wallet 
>> address (or scan a qr code) - although I havenâ??t used the atm
>> since prices got above 1k/btc, so itâ??s been a little while ;)


> Â  Â For completness' sake I guess we should mention that one has to
    be reasonaby sure that the machine running electrum (or other
    client) isn't 'compromised' / has some sort of coin stealing
    malware. 
Yes, I recall reading on a blog of this potential problem. Â Do ordinary anti-virus programs have the ability to detect such problems before they BECOME real problems?
               Jim Bell

>

    Also, best practice is to have most of your funds in cold
    storage. 

    https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage


  
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