How do you keep your bitcoins 100% safe and in your control? You keep your private keys in your control and take all your information offline.

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The two easiest and least expensive ways to do this is to **store your bitcoin on a paper wallet** or can **store your bitcoin on a USB stick.**

This not only keeps you in control of your private keys, and therefore your bitcoin, but it is very secure because hackers can't hack a piece of paper or a USB stick.

The downside is if you lose your USB stick or paper wallet you will lose your bitcoin unless you made another copy and have it safe somewhere.

There's a saying that says, 

>Data does not exist unless it is in two places.

By having more than one copy of your wallet stored on different devices or offline you will not lose your bitcoin.

Here are two videos that will walk you through the process of *how to create a paper wallet* and *how to  store your bitcoin on a USB stick*.



## <center>How To Make A Secure Encrypted Bitcoin Paper Wallet - TUTORIAL</center> ##

<center>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=872eSnlKUeg</center>

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## <center>How To Store Bitcoin On USB Stick - Guide</center> ##

<center>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qmOM567BF4</center>

Follow the steps on each video and you will safely have your bitcoins stored offline and secure from hacking.

Hope you found this helpful and you're now better prepared to keeping control of your bitcoin before and after the Bitcion hardfork scheduled for August 1st, 2017.

If you would like to know more about what happens to your bitcoin during the hardfork read [Are Your Bitcoin Safe After The Bitcoin Hard Fork - The Bitcoin Hard Fork Explained As Simple As Possible](https://steemit.com/crypto/@luzcypher/are-your-bitcoin-safe-after-the-bitcoin-hard-fork-the-bitcoin-hard-fork-explained-as-simple-as-possible)

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