Lesson learned the hard way: I lost a small value of bitcoins due to foolishly backing up private keys to a file which was uploaded to a cloud server. My wallet used to be Bitcoin core.
Right now my keys are in electrum with an air gapped laptop wallet and a watching wallet.
I’d prefer to use bitcoin core because having my own blockchain is preferable.
I know you can use bitkey, but as a Windows user, but it seems too complex.
I’m considering the following solution, and would welcome comments.
Currently, I still run bitcoin core with an empty wallet, on my desktop PC connected to the internet. The blockchain is on a separate SSD disk and I run the empty wallet to keep the blockchain up to date.
I would then keep a core wallet holding the keys to my coins, on the air gapped laptop. When I want to send or receive bitcoins I would move the SSD to the laptop. The SSD would use a SATA to USB connector, so it would be an easy plug in. As soon as I’d done the send or receive I would move the SSD back to the internet PC.
I assume that the blockchain on the SSD would resynch the send and receive transactions.
I could use Electrum Personal Server, but this means running other stuff which I don’t understand. Armory is another option, but I’d prefer to stick with core.
Is my approach feasible? Secure? Overkill?