Please forgive my impatience but I really don't feel up to re-learning everything...

Back in 2013 I purchased a bitcoin. Just the 1.0 I think, but I might have purchased 0.5 later.

I was using Multibit.

Last time I tried using Multibit it didn't do anything, the icon just flickered. I tried reinstalling the software but it was saying a balance of 0, that was a few years ago. I've completely forgotten how all this works...

Tucked away in a draw I have a sheet of paper and a USB drive with a "bitaddress.org" on the top, and a bitcoin "address" and below that a "private key (wallet import format)"

The paper also has my handwriting saying "DO NOT insert USB drive if modem is online".

By the looks of it I tried to create some kind of paper wallet? I really didn't know what I was doing back then and I have even less idea now  

Actually as I'm writing this I seem to remember I put half of the bitcoin in/on the paper thing.

Anyway, sorry for making it into such a long-winded question, my question is pretty simple I guess - if I have an address" and a "private key" does that mean I can import some balance, if there is any, into a new install of Multibit or similar?

I seem to recall you need a wallet and password for that wallet - but that's just software and easily corrupted?


Sorry to be such a noob - again

Shocking.

And now I know that it takes an old Macbook Pro 28 hours to sync a new install of the bitcoin QT thing.   

I've tried following the notion of a secure offline wallet using Ubuntu on a USB drive.

However anything I save on Ubuntu simply isn't there next time I boot with it. So I presume the "run without installing" is actually not really running as such, just some sort of demo or something?

Is there any other OS that does actually work on a USB drive?


Ta


A.

[DON'T]

As a UK resident but living in Malaysia it's pretty awkward to buy btc.

(my bank wants to phone me to confirm a new recipient but I'm not in the UK so can't give a UK phone number)

Moneygram seems a simple way of just going to a local bank, filling in a form and sending someone money. I would love to do this to buy me a bitcoin - but neither gox nor bitstamp seem to accept them? Or am I missing something?

I don't mind a reasonable little fee, a few %.

Bonus Question - If I DO ever manage to get things working with bitstamp, via the 'SEPA' bank transfer thing, does giving them my bank details for exchange withdrawals mean that they could use that bank account info to withdraw FROM my account?

What I DON'T want is for it to be like Paypal, where if I don't have enough funds they can just take some from my bank. I want for me to send, not for them to take, if you get my meaning?


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Thanks!



Alan