Paper Wallets for your Alternative Currencies

[PartTimeLegend]

For a lot of us, myself included there is not a huge incentive to run the entire client for alternate cryptocurrencies.

This is for me because the value of them is low and so I see them more as a savings bond and I will wait till they gain value.

• Bitcoin - https://www.bitaddress.org
• Litecoin - http://liteaddress.org/
• Terracoin - http://terracoin.info/
• PPCoin - http://ppcoin.org/bitaddress - Requires branding
• Devcoin - https://www.bitaddress.org - According to markm the DVC uses BTC addressing. Can someone make a separate branded page?
• Groupcoin - https://www.bitaddress.org - According to markm the GRP uses BTC addressing. Can someone make a separate branded page?
• Friecoin - https://www.bitaddress.org - According to Sunny King the FRC uses BTC addressing. Can someone make a separate branded page?

I am hoping to see implementations for the following:

• Novacoin
• BBQCoin
• Ripple

If anyone knows of them, please post here and I'll update the list.

[markm]

DeVCoin and GRouPcoin both us exact same addresses as BiTCoin so you can use the same paper wallet creation tools as you use for BiTCoin.

-MarkM--

[Sunny King]

Freicoin has same bitcoin address version so you can use bitaddress.org.

As to ppcoin I will look into hosting a copy compatible with ppcoin. Thanks!

[Sunny King]

PPCoin paper wallet generator up for testing here:

http://ppcoin.org/bitaddress

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150407.0

[PartTimeLegend]

Updated first post.

[majorX]

is there one for Namecoin?                                                                                                                                                           

[panonym]

bump
I am also interested to see one for Namecoin.

Can we use bitaddress.org ?
Does anybody tried to send NMC to a public address generated from a Bitcoin private key?
(I mean, to test we can send the NMC out of it after that...)

I remember the shell command to export a private key with namecoind didn't work for me.
So I never try to import one, yet.
Anybody tried and succeed the import/export?

[str4wm4n]

please make bbq!

[optimator]

Well done!

That is some outstanding work. My only request is to use a picture of Manneken Pis for the ppcoin. It just seems.... Right

[jago25_98]

Thanks to Ditto for showing me this.

Needless to say, bear in mind security. If anyone has any comments on if any of these are safe or not please comment back here

[Explicit]

I fail to see the advantages over keeping addresses with their private keys on an encrypted USB stick.

[jago25_98]

I fail to see the advantages over keeping addresses with their private keys on an encrypted USB stick.

I was meaning for that to be an option too. Anything that skips having to install another client

[CryptoWallets.org]

Hi everyone,

http://www.cryptowallets.org/ Has a whole array of paper wallets available for alt coins, with a customization option coming soon.

Enjoy!

[HumanFractal]

Great news for people interested in altcoin paper wallets:

CryptoPapers.com is an offline paper wallet generator that we are about to release Beta for in the next day or two.

25 supported coin types so far - more on their way!

Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin, Dogecoin, Namecoin, NXT (Coming Soon), Mastercoin, Primecoin, Auroracoin, Vertcoin, Mintcoin, Counterparty, Feathercoin, ProtoShares, Quark, Cryptogenic, Datacoin, Devcoin, Digitalcoin, Infinitecoin, Ixcoin, Memorycoin, Novacoin, Terracoin, Worldcoin, Zetacoin

In addition to all these coin types, CryptoPapers will have many advanced features including customizable backgrounds, wallet shapes, BIP38 encryption, integrated security dashboard, and more!

Sign up for Beta:
http://cryptopapers.com

If you'd like to encourage development of this project any amount of donation is appreciated:
http://cryptopapers.com/donate

Thanks and stay safe!

[0xD9B4BEF9]

What do you use to actually import and spend the private keys generated without downloading a blockchain for each coin?

I don't think there's even Electrum for litecoin available yet?

[alison03]

Can anyone verify the above two links (cryptopapers and crytowallets) are safe to use as coin storage? My biggest fear (and no offense to those posters/sites) is that it's just a scam to steal my coins lol. I saw this thread in the newbie forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=520767.20 where a post recommends a wallet and people immediately knew that it was a scam. I, on the other hand, would never have known because every suggestion is news to me. So being very new, of course I'm just skittish.

I am just trying to figure out the best way to store bitcoin and a handful of altcoins for the longterm. I am thinking a paper wallet, but am not even sure what that is (is it the same as cold storage?) and am trying to figure out if I need one paper wallet per type of coin, or if there's something that will store all my coins together. Can someone also expand on the comments above regarding a USB stick? You store addresses on there? What do you mean by "addresses"?  Thank you much!!

[HumanFractal]

Can anyone verify the above two links (cryptopapers and crytowallets) are safe to use as coin storage? My biggest fear (and no offense to those posters/sites) is that it's just a scam to steal my coins lol. I saw this thread in the newbie forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=520767.20 where a post recommends a wallet and people immediately knew that it was a scam. I, on the other hand, would never have known because every suggestion is news to me. So being very new, of course I'm just skittish.

I am just trying to figure out the best way to store bitcoin and a handful of altcoins for the longterm. I am thinking a paper wallet, but am not even sure what that is (is it the same as cold storage?) and am trying to figure out if I need one paper wallet per type of coin, or if there's something that will store all my coins together. Can someone also expand on the comments above regarding a USB stick? You store addresses on there? What do you mean by "addresses"?  Thank you much!!

I can't speak for cryptowallets by my application is completely legit. You are completely right to have this worry and i recommend that anyone with these concerns run CryptoPapers fully offline.

We are still in Closed Beta but very soon we are releasing Open Beta to the Chrome App Store and GitHub.

Read about all of the advanced features that will be available here:
https://nxtforum.org/cryptopapers/



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Let me try to address your questions.

- Yes, paper wallets are considered cold storage
- USB sticks are a good way to store coins but they are vulnerable to EMPs unlike paper, which is a very small risk depending who you ask but worth mentioning.
- An Address is just the public facing side of your Private Key. All coins are set up so that you can't spend from an Address unless you can properly Sign a Transaction with the correct Private Key.


(For those of you that want to get technical you turn the Private Key into the Public Key using a Public Key Cryptographic Curve called secp256k1. The Public Key is then turned into an address by running it through SHA256 twice and then RIPEMD160 once, then converting it to Base58Check)