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Title: What to do with a 58 character private key? Post by: FreeTrade on November 23, 2011, 09:56:06 AM I've generated a large number of bitcoin addresses and private keys - I can receive money at the bitcoin addresses easily enough, but what's the easiest way to spend that money?
Basically, I've just got the 58 character private keys - what software can I easily import that into to aggregate the funds? What's the easiest way to do that? Thanks! Title: Re: What to do with a 58 character private key? Post by: cbeast on November 23, 2011, 10:08:10 AM I've generated a large number of bitcoin addresses and private keys - I can receive money at the bitcoin addresses easily enough, but what's the easiest way to spend that money? Basically, I've just got the 58 character private keys - what software can I easily import that into to aggregate the funds? What's the easiest way to do that? Thanks! I've been doing this myself. The only way I know is to import into MtGox with the website (not the app). I sure would like a smartphone app to do this. Title: Re: What to do with a 58 character private key? Post by: deepceleron on November 23, 2011, 11:15:53 AM Use pywallet, and import the private keys into a Bitcoin 0.3.24 install and spend them.
Title: Re: What to do with a 58 character private key? Post by: FreeTrade on November 23, 2011, 11:44:04 AM I've been doing this myself. The only way I know is to import into MtGox with the website (not the app). I sure would like a smartphone app to do this. Thanks - the MtGox method works nicely for what I need for the time being. Title: Re: What to do with a 58 character private key? Post by: deepceleron on November 23, 2011, 01:35:13 PM Unfortunately, once you put the private key into mtgox, it will always have any funds sent to it instantly scraped and added to your mtgox account, you won't be able to use that address again for anything else.
Title: Re: What to do with a 58 character private key? Post by: luv2drnkbr on December 14, 2011, 01:44:08 AM If you trust it (which I do, although not enough to actually use it!... I'm paranoid), you can use casascius's
https://bitcointools.appspot.com/ to just get a wallet.dat file with that address, and use the "-rescan" command when running a bitcoin client. Title: Re: What to do with a 58 character private key? Post by: casascius on December 14, 2011, 01:54:45 AM That app is not by me, just for the record.
Personally I use a patched bitcoind for redeeming private keys, but that is definitely not simple. Hoping Gavin and developers will see fit to add this function to the mainline soon. |