Thanks very much guys!

I am aware of spending out of a paper wallet so these are just strictly cold storage sums not to be used until the keys are swept altogether.  I do have my wallet file backed-up also (in encrypted volumes stored in multiple places on different media) as well as my paper wallets' key pairs backed-up digitally in multiple places.  I am aware that the making of paper wallets, whether with the console in Qt or with Bitaddress should be done completely offline, etc.

I was more worried that the private keys that QT spat out at me might not be the best to use or that I may have done something wrong in the process... I may do the bitaddress wallets in the near future and move the BTC just to be safer and more secure.

I almost feel embarrassed asking this but it needs to be done so thanks very much.

I sent BTC to five unused addresses a while back that were generated in Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.5 I believe.

The commands wallatpassphrase and dumpprivkey were used to get a private key for each public one.  These key pairs were printed onto paper.  Are those reliable paper wallets if I needed to import the private key into Qt or another client?  I've also used the bitaddress.org files but this is the way I've left it these 5 wallets for some time.  I need to know if I'm good or if these need to be redone.  Thanks again very much.

The title is ridiculous in it's assertion that people rotating out of gold en masse and buying BTC is the reason for these moves and BTC threads at ZH are funny.    

I hope you don't mind me using your thread fible but Ive been trying to get an answer to a stupid n00b question I have.  Thanks for asking and getting clarification on your topic though, it will help others like myself...

To my question:

Is there any difference between a 51 character base 58 private key and a 52 character base 58 private key for the purposes of importing any given private key into a client (Bitcoin-Qt in my case) or web-based wallet?  I have my paper wallets recorded in 52 character codes but have noticed that at least one of the fine paper wallet generators out there outputs to 51 character code private keys.  Is there any difference for the purposes of broad functionality?  Thanks

Does it really matter how one stores their private keys on paper wallets?  Mine are recorded in 52 characters base58 (beginning with "K" or "L") currently as that's what Bitcoin-Qt gave me with the dumpprivkey command.  I noticed some of the great web-based paper wallet generators like the beauties at bitcoinpaperwallet.com come out in 51 characters base58 (beginning with "5").  They are both considered as being in WIF format?  Is there a difference in functionality for the purposes of importing them for use?  In the event I wanted to use the coin on one of my paper wallets, would my 52 character private key be easily imported into any client or web-based wallet?  Thank-you

Does it really matter how one stores their private keys on paper wallets?  Mine are recorded in 52 characters base58 (beginning with "K" or "L") currently as that's what Qt gave me with the dumpprivkey command.  I noticed some of the great web-based paper wallet generators like the beauties at bitcoinpaperwallet.com come out in 51 characters base58 (beginning with "5").  They are both considered as being in WIF format?  Is there a difference in functionality for the purposes of importing them for use?  In the event I wanted to use the coin on one of my paper wallets, would my 52 character private key be easily imported into any client or web-based wallet?  

I know this is a glowing green n00b type of question but I'd appreciate some clarification if someone can spare a moment.  Thanks  

"...we need to ensure that we protect markets and consumers..." - Bart Chilton

The last thing they're concerned about is protecting markets and consumers, take the gold and silver futures markets for example.

Question is, is it about time to bail on BTC while the getting is good?

As someone considering a move to either Uruguay or Chile this is significant news, thanks!  

Interesting Jeff Berwick post on his site.

My Official Withdrawal from the BitcoinATM Project

I don't know... Just watched Mike Hearn, a Software Engineer at Google, talking about the long-term, potential evolutionary dynamics of Bitcoin use at Bitcoin 2012 like it's a fait de compli going forward.  I'm too stupid to understand some of it but there is some pretty cool ideas being bandied about.  I understand that functional Bitcoin integration into web browsers themselves has already begun at an R & D level also, not sure if that's accurate or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4L7xDNCmA

What da..?

Buy "stock" in the Bitcoin Channel?  What kind of return on investment are we talking about here?  I don't get it...

 

I need it specifically for an iPod Touch, does this require jailbreaking too?  I know nothing about this stuff so thanks.  Don't like the idea of web-based wallets.

Can some of you please give your recommendations and or suggestions as to the best (easiest to use) app needed simply for mobile wallet purposes and basic transactions?

Thanks and regards.

A lot of wisdom in just three words. 

BEWARE!!!  

 

BTC is in a confirmed bull market and it has proven itself on more than one occasion that it is absolutely not a Ponzi Scheme.   Anyone who calls it such, even The Tylers and the throwbacks on Zero Hedge, obviously don't even know what a Ponzi is yet.  This does not reflect well on these morons and not only exposes their apparent agenda but discredits themselves completely.

... and I take comfort that most people are not only blathering idiots in general but often completely hypocritical in their criticisms, ignorant of different drugs' pharmacology, the effects on the user and particularly the history of them.  Why is the U.S. and their "allies" still in Afghanistan protecting the source of 95%+ of global heroin trade?   How many "average people" would say "fighting the Taliban?  I submit that all wars are not religious in nature and may only have been portrayed in such a way as to appeal politically to perceptions of the ignorant masses they preside over. Money, power and the occultist elite control politics.  Religion is just a convenient explanation for the programmed, likely the same people that see no value in opening one's mind or profound medicinal uses of some "drugs" and think it's all just sitting around doing drugs.

The "average person's" opinion on any serious issue is more often than not a worthless, conditioned response on it's face in the mud.

Look at the thread below this one, "The Drunk Thread", where one can't post unless they're swilled... So it's alright to sit around getting drunk and tapping-out BS on some forum for all one's peers to appreciate yet it's bad to do some acid and reflect in the woods or treat and/or cure one's self of psychological and/or physical maladies with a stay at a reputable Ayahuasca retreat?

It's this kind of outright hypocrisy and idiocy that astounds me and is representative of just how valuable the "average person's" opinion is, and how relevant these specimens are generally...

  


  

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How can such a medicine capable of profound healing, one that the human body excretes naturally, be classified as a Schedule 1 drug?

Yet another example of how little humanity is left in the human condition on this prison gulag sheep ranch called Earth. 

Ditto, have had good service from them.  I spoke with them two days ago and it was said that they have hired a number of new staff and will have much better customer support at all levels going forward.

Gox is the Pox.

I've enjoyed ZH, the news feed is good and even some of the Bitcoin articles have been alright.

However, the comments sections have largely become a forum for psychopathic lower primates overcome by self-reinforcing programming.  The Bitcoin articles bring this to light quite handily.

I was going to post my little story on one of the threads there but that place doesn't deserve us.   How I started buying BTC in November and sold my last purchase of 78.5 BTC yesterday at essentially a 3-bagger.  This enabled me to recover almost all my principal capital spent on all my BTC purchases after fees, capital gains, etc.  Now I'm left with almost all my Fiat back with which to strengthen my position in other asset classes and still have hundreds of BTC in cold storage at a cost base of about $1.25/BTC.

I think I made-out pretty well and am totally comfortable with having ~600 bucks tied-up in quite a few hundred, almost free Bitcoin.

Anyway, the last thing I need is to read anymore broken record BS about Bitcoin on ZH from a lot of those tools.

Timm, you do a very good job of posting there and being a BTC ambassador of sorts, you really deserve credit.  I think you've made a few people think there ( the ones that still can and have an open mind) but I think your efforts and those of others are largely wasted on many of those throwbacks.

Keep-up the good work or not, it's your choice but I have lost a lot of respect and interest in ZH in general, the comments sections are mostly filled with packs of dogs sniffing eachother's and all trying to piss on the same fire hydrant.

With regards to Bitcoin, fuck ZeroHedge, the Tylers and most of the people that post there as they have nothing else to do apparently, bunch of sad whores...