You can generate addresses even now. You don't need to have electrum running. There is some code here:

https://github.com/prusnak/addrgen

But to learn about coins you've received you have to have bitcoind or use blockchain.info's api. I suppose you could use electrum as well but you'd need to know python to fix that merchant script.

Electrum can be run over the command line. No gui required

Electrum 2.0 is going to feature a full featured daemon process for servers:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=427617.0

There is no electrum network fee but if you want to support the electrum servers you can donate to them. You'll find their address on the console tab in the Electrum window.

Nice!

Also 2.0 has a lot of features. About 3, that sounds a lot like http keepalive for electrum.

Yeah ebay will be the last. Newegg seems more likely to accept btc soon.

Have you tried changing $cmd to:

Nice! Gotta learn python.

Thanks.

Hey feel free to add me to your ignore list. But I will continue to post what I like.

This is not true. Distorting facts does not help the Bitcoin cause. DPR put hits on all sorts of people for bitcoins.

What?? Linux has a clipboard too.

I was referring to flatfly's post above where he talks about how a message signature would provide proof of the correct address.

You can do this if you are willing to a) set a password before you email it and b) make absolutely sure to switch wallets as soon as you get the chance. b will entail moving coins to a new wallet and abandoning addresses in the old one. So basically you are trading inconvenience later for convenience now. Might be worth it in a pinch as you say.

Your script will sign messages too? He will need the private key to sign messages and since the private key is not supposed to leave the offline system he will need message signing software installed on that offline system. Not sure whether bitcoin-qt/d or electrum will work on Win 95 so your script will have to do the signing. The verification he can do on his online system, no problem.

Oh, I see you are generating the private keys manually using dice? So you just want to do the EC math and hashing on the Win 95 computer? Unique use case.

You know if I were in your situation I would worry about whether the address corresponds with the private key you have. Using well tested, widely used software gives you at least some degree of comfort that the hashing is done correctly. Not sure the same can be said about bespoke one off scripts.

Well the problem is that with a Windows version that old you don't even know whether you are getting cryptographically secure private keys. MS software that old did have a weak random number generator if I remember correctly.

You know you can install Linux on old computers. A debian wheezy + xfce installation uses barely any resources. Not sure how feasible that might be for you though. Depends on your skill level.

Have you looked at woocommerce and this payment plugin for it:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88883.0

Woocommerce has an option for digital files.

http://docs.woothemes.com/document/digitaldownloadable-product-handling/

One of the things that comes into this is labour mobility. You can target a global market without physically moving anywhere.

She's talking about Linux cli commands. The OP is a Linux user as are the rest of us. We understand what she means.

Don't those alt coins provide linux binaries? In which case you just download, unzip and place the files in bin/32 or bin/64 in your /home/user/bin/ directory. chmod +x the file and run it.

Paper wallets are a bad idea. There are so many gotchas with them:

- You get only one address.

- Spending coins safely is hard. If you make a mistake spending your coins you could end up sending large amounts as fees, have change end up in insecure addresses or worse.

Paper wallets IMO are a primitive device. People just parrot this advice that paper wallets are a good thing but they are not. They are only good for those people selling paper wallet kits. For most users an offline wallet on a dedicated device is infinitely better. You get unlimited addresses and a full fledged bitcoin client that can spend, receive and sign messages as well.

Install virtual box. Create a guest OS. Install your alt client in that guest OS. Ideally you would have a separate VM for each alt (You can easily clone a VM) so that if one alt coin client has malware it doesn't steal coins from the other alt coin wallets. But even a single VM is better than installing alt coin clients on your host OS.