cold storage
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- noun
- /koʊld ˈstɔːrɪdʒ/
- Specialized
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almacenamiento en frío
- For this reason, many crypto investors keep their assets in cold storage rather than on an exchange or with a broker.
That is, get your coins off exchange, put them in cold storage, forget that you have them, suck them away and protect yourself.
- That is, get your coins off exchange, put them in cold storage, forget that you have them, suck them away and protect yourself.
Examples
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That is, get your coins off exchange, put them in cold storage, forget that you have them, suck them away and protect yourself.
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But you'll want to safeguard files, archive them, or keep seasonal data in cold storage.
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Phone the boss and tell him we got everything in cold storage.
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For this reason, many crypto investors keep their assets in cold storage rather than on an exchange or with a broker.
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Such enterprises can store their data based on its "temperature," keeping hotter data on flash, where it can be accessed more quickly, and archived info in cost-effective cold storage archives.
How Accessible
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Surface Forms
Morphology
While 'cold storage' could be literally understood as refrigerated storage from 'cold' + 'storage', its computing sense (archival, rarely accessed data) is a metaphorical extension where 'cold' signals low activity. This mapping is somewhat inferable but potentially ambiguous for a B1 learner without technical context, so the expression is partially but not fully transparent.
Etymology
Cold storage in computing uses the same picture: old files are moved into a very cold storage place where they stay but are not used often. So it means 'digital data kept long-term and rarely accessed'.