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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: nvK on October 20, 2014, 03:51:52 PM



Title: Tutorial: How To Import And Spend Bitcoin Paper Wallets
Post by: nvK on October 20, 2014, 03:51:52 PM
Coinkite makes importing paper wallets and private keys incredibly easy.

Just follow this steps:

  • Go to Receive Tab > Private Key (http://coinkite.com/accounts/recv/import-key)
  • Paste Private Key
  • Press “Save”

Done! Now your balance is spendable on Send Tab > Bitcoin (https://coinkite.com/accounts/send/send-btc)

Now you can keep it in Coinkite, send to P2SH, consolidate with a different paper wallet, etc…

http://media.tumblr.com/02b4c61939c67937a0ee010471c633a9/tumblr_inline_ndqz03u1d21qz9xzs.gif

Coinkite supports many types of private keys formats:

  • WIF format (Wallet Import Format) — recommended.
  • Hexadecimal, Base64 or Base6 (dice rolls)  of the secret exponent.
  • BIP38 Encrypted private keys. You’ll need to know the passphrase of course.

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Title: Re: Tutorial: How To Import And Spend Bitcoin Paper Wallets
Post by: Salmon1989 on October 21, 2014, 10:09:51 AM
No offense but I think bc.i wallet is way better than your service for 2 major reasons.
1. Your service works like exchanges, which your users don't have access to the private keys.
2. With the free starter plan, your users can only get 2 receiving addresses.

Just my humble opinions. :)


Title: Re: Tutorial: How To Import And Spend Bitcoin Paper Wallets
Post by: cryptoaltcoin on October 21, 2014, 10:14:55 AM
Ty for the tutorial, its way easier than i thought


Title: Re: Tutorial: How To Import And Spend Bitcoin Paper Wallets
Post by: nvK on October 21, 2014, 12:10:52 PM
Ty for the tutorial, its way easier than i thought

That's great to hear, if you ever have any issues, just ping us support@coinkite.com :)


No offense but I think bc.i wallet is way better than your service for 2 major reasons.
1. Your service works like exchanges, which your users don't have access to the private keys.
2. With the free starter plan, your users can only get 2 receiving addresses.

Just my humble opinions. :)

1. Not like an exchange, we are BIP32 HD, meaning each user has a private key assign to them. Funds are never mixed and can be audited by the user at any time. There is a big feature you will like coming soon, stay tuned.
2. We offer a many more features (Onion, Funds forwarding, BIP32 HD, etc...) and quality support. We you are not selling customer's information to advertisers the natural source of revenue is monthly fees.