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July 15, 2013, 07:51:46 PM
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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!
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July 15, 2013, 10:18:13 PM
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i tried importprivkey and i get this error code

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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??
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July 15, 2013, 10:53:09 PM
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im guessing it is the encryption.. what commands to i input to import a private key with an encrypted wallet?
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July 17, 2013, 06:00:58 PM
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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.

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July 18, 2013, 11:05:42 PM
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thanks!

finally someone helped me!
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July 18, 2013, 11:33:28 PM
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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.
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