Proper encryption should be lossless, or else what's the point of it if it can't be accurately decrypted. So, in effect, the file should restore exactly as it was before encryption. I've not heard of any danger of doubly encrypting a file.

How about this idea:

Download and install Tails Linux onto a USB stick. Save a copy of the bitaddress.org HTML file onto the Tails USB stick. Put it into a new directory if you want.

Run Tails Linux on the old laptop and open the bitaddress.org HTML file in Tails' secure browser. Make sure the laptop is never connected to a WiFi network whilst you're doing this.

Generate an address and private key using the Web page. Write them down, double and triple checking your work.

Shutdown Tails. Boot windows/Linux/whatever and send coins to your new, secure address.

You could even remove the hard drive from the old laptop if you want to be sure that no information is being left behind and your only key is on the piece of paper.

Checking "start Bitcoin on system login/startup" within the Bitcoin-qt interface didn't work for me either.

I got around this by:

Deselecting auto run (to avoid conflicts in the OS).

Opening the Ubuntu/unity search widget and typing 'startup'.

Here you'll see the system startup manager.

Add a new entry in startup manager, pointing to the location where you keep Bitcoin-qt.

Restart your machine.

I remember seeing some online news a couple of months ago, stating that Newegg we're going to trial the UK as a potential market. The news had nothing to do with Bitcoin, but I looked forward to having a new competitor to Scan and ebuyer over here.

It seems that you can get prices in UK sterling but the site looks like it's booking through the US portal, with (rather expensive) UK delivery appended as an option to your order. The mobile site, in particular, is still very US centric.

Is this the best they could do?

Oh, it looks a bit more complicated than I'm comfortable with. I'm not sure about using ECDSA.

Is there a well known/proven script that can do the same?

Last time I did some cold storage I used bitaddress.org.

I've been messing around with manually hashing in Ubuntu terminal and was wondering if I could create a private key manually, then create public key and finally Bitcoin address.

Is it possible using basic hashing functions, or would I need to download a script?

Sue Ryder Associates.

I was just thinking how brilliant this could be if foreign bureau de change start accepting BTC.

In the past I've messed about with Travellers Cheques and have relied on Visa only to find that Mastercard was more accepted (hello USA!).

Won't it be great to send two or three BTC to a newly created "holiday wallet" on smartphone or just write down an Electrum seed, arrive at your holiday destination with no local money. Walk into a bureau de change and three confirmations later you've got a fistful of local cash.

Can anyone see any drawbacks?

This would only be a problem if BTC value was volatile while your balance was with eBay. If it goes mainstream then it's predicted that volatility will settle (eventually).

Anyway, to go mainstream as a day to day shopping currency it seems third party companies like Bitpay/Amazon coin will be needed.

Maybe not directly, but what if you could pre-load a Paypal/eBay/Bitpay account with enough to cover whatever you're bidding on? Once the money's transferred into your eBay account/eBay cash pool it could be managed with eBay software until your change is spat back out onto the blockchain.

If I didn't have anything to do I would start up a NOTwobber account and follow them round the forum, posting the opposite of their advice. 

Why does someone care if all of the coin comes from sequential blocks or not? Would you pay a premium because they're in an orderly fashion on the blockchain? As soon as I was in receipt of the coins I'd move them to an address where I knew that the private key was secure.

Have I got the wrong end of the stick about this?

That would be an elegant way to secure the network and ensure bitcoin's success.  <br /> <br />Win the game by throwing away the private keys to 1.5M BTC, ensuring your baby survives.  <br /> <br />Could be the end scene of a movie!

Thanks for the replies. It seems that Satoshi was a master of anonymity even before he knew how popular BTC would be. He sent his original mined coins to lots of different addresses. It's like he knew that this idea would be important.

Which forum did he mainly post on in the early days? Just this one, or were there other places?

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Good video. I didn't learn anything new, but it leaves me with a feeling that things are going to take off! 

They've also misspelled 'blockchain' on that site. Is their html trustworthy?

You might be better off using bitaddress org because it's overtly open source and I believe people from here have scanned the code and have verified it's not a scam site.

It's a good idea to get into the habit of refilling your clipboard with a random word from a Web page straight after you've pasted any secure info.

Just double click on "and" or "the" and copy it to overwrite whatever's in the clipboard.

I searched both windows and ubuntu clipboard functionality a while ago and as far as I know they only store the last entry you use, IIRC.

Are they on blockchain.info or implemented in some kind of code in the protocol?

Do they exist?

Can I see them?

I've looked at google results and it seems like maxconnections=12 will have to do for now.

I hope an uplimit=x downlimit=x setting is implemented in future.

I'm using the latest Ubuntu.