HOWTO: Paper wallet!

[Jubalong]

Take a piece of paper, write bitcoin wallet on it with a crayon: enjoy your bitcoin paper wallet!

[denario]

 Thanks a lot for the useful info.
 

[messville]

Thanks for this,
Much Appreciated.
 

[john_acton]

That's really cool!

[Jubalong]

Thanks for the kind words. I'd appreciate if someone points out any glaring flaw in the security of the method, so that I can amend it if so.

[benwoody]

So, complete noob question now:

How do I get the btc once they are stored in the address from the private key?

I take it there are certain apps that will take the private key + the address and confirm them?

[deepceleron]

Thanks for the kind words. I'd appreciate if someone points out any glaring flaw in the security of the method, so that I can amend it if so.

I have to enable remote image loading to see what the heck you posted. Enabling cross-site requests allows an image site to at the very least log viewers of this thread. Then the image site tries to stick a cookie on my browser. That's not so secure.

Pressing the "print" button in your browser is more practical and reliable than transcribing a public key off the screen - one character missed when you are writing down the private key and [poof!] your bitcoins are gone. Just don't print to workgroup printers with a hard drive in them or leave the printer un-power-cycled if it might have a "reprint" feature.

If you want to discourage curious eyes, labeling the outside "Jubalong's fungus specimen" would be better than "Jubalong's paper wallet" .

How do I get the btc once they are stored in the address from the private key?

Bitcoin: Help -> Debug window -> Console
type importprivkey 5Ja83qanfha4aJ236jfaf.....JneEA "spending my paper wallet"

[benwoody]

How do I get the btc once they are stored in the address from the private key?

Bitcoin: Help -> Debug window -> Console
type importprivkey 5Ja83qanfha4aJ236jfaf.....JneEA "spending my paper wallet"

I have to ask... this won't do anything to my current bitcoins in my wallet.dat, will it?

[Kazu]

No. It simply imports the other address as if it had been part of your wallet all along.