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With Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a host of other cryptocurrencies once again making headlines following an incredibly bullish year, crypto security has never been more important, this guide will teach you how to protect your cryptocurrency with a paper wallet and cold storage. 
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Just before last New Year’s, 19-year-old Vitalik Buterin, a Canadian college dropout and Bitcoin enthusiast, had an idea. By the end of last week, that idea had attracted more than $5 million in the first week of its pre-sale — a new kind of crowdfunding that crypto-currency makes possible. Not bad, especially considering that nobody knows whether the idea will really work. Buterin’s idea was Ethereum, a platform designed to be what Bitcoin is to money for just about everything else. Bitcoin works by spreading the currency's entire history of transactions — the blockchain, it's called — out across the whole network of its users. Rather than just recording transactions, Ethereum's blockchain would be able record and execute any program you can code. Bitcoin is a pretty interesting fish, but Ethereum is poised to be the whole ocean. Voting systems, file storage, financial instruments, all sorts of contracts — these things and more could become cheaper, faster, and more widely accessible over a distributed network. In theory, it could transform the architecture of the Internet and the infrastructure of the economy. In practice, who knows.
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