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Questions tagged [paper-wallet]

Related to the creation and usage of paper wallets, mostly used for cold storage.

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How to save bitcoins as paper?

I would like to save some of my bitcoins on a piece of paper with QR code printed on it. What would be the easiest way to do it without using Mt Gox. or similar. Just bitcoins (I'm not afraid of some programming if it's needed).
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How to claim Bitcoin Cash & Bitcoin Gold from paper wallet

Before the first Bitcoin fork (August 1st) I put all my Bitcoin into a paper wallet. I kind of forgot about it. Now I think I can claim Bitcoin cash as well. Now there has been another fork resulting in Bitcoin gold. How to I take my Bitcoin from…
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How Can I Ensure Private Key is Valid on my Paper Wallet?

I have recently created a paper wallet using the tool at bitaddress.org. Now I will soon be transferring a large sum of money to the paper wallet, however before I do so I would like to be sure that the private key that has been generated is in fact…
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How can an online wallet be more secure than paper wallets or cold storages?

Recently, after I was reading that some bitcoin early adopter lost 750 BTC due to theft from his macbook, I was looking for the most secure storage solution for my coins. I already know about paper wallets and cold storage solutions but I somehow…
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Can more bitcoins be transferred to a paper wallet address once it is created?

I created a paper wallet from coinbase with some initial amount and secured it. I want to keep adding more bitcoins to the same address. Can I do that? Are there any issues doing it?
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BIP38 or Brain wallet?

I have seen many videos about paper wallets and different ways to store BTC. And I have choose to store using a cold wallet (paper wallet). But I am not sure what option I should choose: a normal BIP38 encrypted paper wallet, or a brain wallet…
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How do I transfer BTC in cold storage?

I understand how to send BTC to cold storage or offline wallets, but I can't seem to find information on how to send BTC from cold storage to, let's say, a wallet on my computer, or a website, or a friend's online or offline wallet.
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Monitor paper wallet balance without importing private key?

I generated a paper wallet offline and running from fresh OS, and I'm not going to ever type that private key into a computer until it's time to spend the coins. But I will send coins to this address as a 'piggy bank' My question: can the Qt client…
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How do you sweep a paper wallet with Bitcoin-Qt?

Sweeping involves importing a private key, then sending it's entire balance to a new address in your wallet via a new transaction. This would protect your paper wallet's bitcoins from being stolen if someone else ever had access to your paper…
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How can users have confidence that there are no backdoors in paper wallet generators?

I'm thinking of issues like the randomization not being truly random. I appreciate that some users could examine the code themselves, but what assurances do less technically skilled users have?
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Paper wallet secret Santa?

I'm planning to contribute a Paper wallet as Secret Santa gift. This would require the recipient to learn a bit about bitcoin and set up their own wallet in order to use the value. What's the best approach for this? Which paper wallet system…
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What did I do wrong that caused me to lose bitcoin?

I've been accumulating bitcoin into a paper wallet for a couple weeks. It's all been stolen. I'm trying to figure out what I did wrong: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/193jdrxMKoUjWLyKm2UCGNXLGGvK1x3FDV I've been very careful with this…
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Claim Bitcoin Gold from my paper wallet

I have asked similar questions in the past, But I didn't get a clear answer yet. I have my bitcoins in a paper wallet, Everywhere I am reading that exchanges like yobit,hitbtc etc will support bitcoin gold if the bitcoins were in their wallet before…
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I have more than 20 paper wallets with very little bitcoin in them. How can I combine all of them together?

I have a bunch of paper wallets with different small amounts of Bitcoin in them. How can I combine them all into one address without having to pay a fee for sending each paper wallet to my own account? How to do a bulk send and pay a one time fee…
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Trying to create a bitcoin public/private key using bitcoin-core

I want to create a single bitcoin address to which I can send and receive funds too. Using the bitcoin-core console, I typed in the following: Input: getnewaddress Output: Address: mhYC9ybAa2aHivEjYzyp7WcMXtpcmJvgV2 Input: …
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