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March 27, 2013, 04:48:08 AM |
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As the title implies, I want to make a paper wallet or perhaps a sculpture or engraving or etching of some private keys.
Any suggestions on what is a good font, readily or freely available? I understand that base58check already considers similar looking characters, and people may suggest monospaced fonts like Courier.
This is for human readable hard copies. So it can be imported into Bitcoin-Qt manually, by hand. Of course I will use a large enough size, so maybe only 1 private key per line.
I was thinking of Consolas for monospace, and for proportional even Arial works (or Calibri.) I've even looked at OCR fonts, but they look ugly.
I saw that picture of a tungsten bar which was laser engraved, but I think that's a little too much for me. I can do with plastic or wood or even simple anodized aluminum. I wouldn't go with steel unless it was stainless with a high chrome content as I fear it will rust, even though I know marine stainless steel lasts very long.
But for starters, I will just print on nice thick paper and keep it safe.
Makes me wonder if I should put QR codes there, but then I can store less keys on each sheet of paper, and I'd need a QR scanner. Maybe I keep two backups or just include both human readable and QR codes.
If you have pictures (not your actual keys of course, but samples) then that would be great.
I'm also thinking of getting embroidery done. Maybe the alphabet of base58 then just stitch the correct sequence myself.
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