how to use paper wallet?

[blarg]

ive seen these sites where you can generate a paper wallet i have a digitalcoin paper wallet in my recents so this will do for example http://digitalcoin.co/paperwallet.html

(please find me a bitcoin paper wallet generator)

So I have no idea use it but here are my guesses.
1 It generates a address and you send coins so that address. (y/n?)
2 it generates a privkey. where to i import this private key? the debug console window (y/n?)

so maybe i understand it a little i just want another persons confirmation to make sure i do it right before i risk my coins

thanks!

[blarg]

i tried importprivkey and i get this error code

17:16:23

Error adding key to wallet (code -4)


im the help menu it says i have to input importprivkey <bitcoinprivkey> [label] [rescan=true]

what does that label and rescan mean?

can anybody help me??

it is encrypted, is that why??

[blarg]

im guessing it is the encryption.. what commands to i input to import a private key with an encrypted wallet?

[Kouye]

You might need to use:

walletpassphrase [Your_Passphrase] [seconds]

Replace [You_Passphrase] with your actual pass for this wallet (sorry for being obvious)
And [seconds] with the time you think will be sufficient to import your p key. During that time, your wallet will be "unencrypted". 60 or 120 seconds should be more than enough.

Use this before importing, either as a bitcoind switch or in the bitrcoin-qt debug console.

If this still fails, you might already have the key in your wallet.

[blarg]

thanks!

finally someone helped me!

[Abdussamad]

bitaddress.org for bitcoin paper wallets.

And to import a private key you can just use the bitcoin-QT menus. There is an option for importing private key there.