Real-world guides

The rest of these docs explain each screen. These guides start from a situation instead — the transfer you actually need to make — and walk through it end to end, including the mistakes and scams that show up in real life.

One habit for every transfer: Source → Label → Device

Most losses come down to sending to an address that looked right. Three checks, every time you move money:

Source. Take the address from where it really comes from — the exchange’s deposit page, the receiver’s own KeepKey screen, your Address Book. Never from your transaction history, an old chat, or a search result.
Label. When KeepKey Desktop recognises a saved address it shows its Address Book label next to the recipient. Expected “Alice — BTC” and see no label, or a “new address” prompt? Stop.
Device. Read the whole address on the KeepKey screen before you approve — the start, the middle and the end. Your computer draws the app; it does not draw the KeepKey screen.

Guides

Get paid by friends & family — sharing your address over text or a call, and the small test payment.
Move coins off an exchange — withdrawing to your KeepKey without mixing up networks.
Send to an exchange — deposit addresses, memos and destination tags.
Save addresses safely — the one careful check that makes every later send easier.
Clipboard swapping — malware that changes the address you paste.
Address poisoning & dust — lookalike addresses planted in your history.