Paper Wallet Trust issues.
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I’ve been a good boy and generated some paper wallets on a 100% offline machine, the machine has now been formatted and scrubbed. I’ve generated enough wallets to split my funds up into 100 feathercoin batches. I’ve laminated the wallets to protect them and I’ve acquired a free cash safe to prevent theft and fire. That’s enough right?
So now, my biggest concern. How do I know I can retrieve my funds when the time comes? I know the public keys are good, but how do I know the private keys are functional? Is there an offline way to verify their importabliity?
Thanks! ;D
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Should I be concerned about the laminating pouches too? I believe they are not recommended for archiving. But surely they a good for tens of years?
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maybe worth making two copies of each public/private address pair. I guess the problem with laminating may be something to do with the glue deteriorating and making the paper unreadable.
Or an alternative may be to have the printed version and also a small pen drive with the same files on which may give you multiple fail overs.
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Plan.
Any thoughts on testing the private keys?
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you can stand up another off-line machine and import the private key, this will allow you to check the import works and that the public key matches (I think)
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Ahh, so an ‘offline’ version of QT which will never be connected to the network, just to run some QT functions?
Thanks
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Yep that should do it, I’ve spent a lot of time messing with it running on a Pi over the last few days due to 1 project or another and all functions seam to work off-line so you should be able to see whats going on this way. Once your done, blow it away never to be seen again :)
Other thing to do it to test 1 of the ones you have generated live. Send it a single FTC and try and import into your live wallet. If 1 works they should all work really
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actually if you wanted to be really sneeky you could setup a r-pi import all your private keys encrypt the wallet (or maybe do that first) then take out the SD card and put that in storeage? ready to simply pop back into a r-pi at a later date and bring back to life?
(on second thoughts this may be expensive and not worth while)
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If I had a r-pi ;D
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ok scrap thr R-PI but you could install linux (mint / ubuntu) on a flash drive install the wallet and upload the keys etc etc and then put that into storage.
but who needs the hassle.
Anyway where did you find this free fireproof storage?
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We have our Mother in law staying with us. I joked that I could do with a small valuables safe for my newly created wallets . She said “Oh, I’ve got one of those, you can have it.”. It’s only 30 mins fireproof. But It’s free! ;D
*edit* wrong model, it’s only 30 mins.
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Sounds perfect :)
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You can send all of your private keys to me for safe keeping ;D
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You can send all of your private keys to me for safe keeping ;D
Bah!
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You should look into REVLAR waterproof laser paper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNfG5ssHGOQ
They have it at Amazon. Not cheap, but probably safer than laminating.
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ooooooo thanks!
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Paper wallets! That’s a good idea I wanted to try when I started mining and I’m postponing ever since!
Never really looked into this so,MrWyrm, mind if I ask you which software you used? The wallet itself?
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I can also recommend the Piper for creating paper wallets. Again, not cheap, but really easy, and a great solution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwxAkG5TZL0
Currently, it doesn’t support FTC, but maybe if some more people from the forum are interested, he will write the code to generate FTC keys. Right now it supports BTC and LTC and does BIP0038 encryption.
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Paper wallets! That’s a good idea I wanted to try when I started mining and I’m postponing ever since!
Never really looked into this so,MrWyrm, mind if I ask you which software you used? The wallet itself?
I downloaded the Featheraddress package and ran it offline.
https://github.com/Mark-Leck/Featheraddress
I’ve not had chance to test these paper wallets yet though. Having a few problems getting the wallet working on a fresh Xubuntu install.
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I can also recommend the Piper for creating paper wallets. Again, not cheap, but really easy, and a great solution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwxAkG5TZL0
Currently, it doesn’t support FTC, but maybe if some more people from the forum are interested, he will write the code to generate FTC keys. Right now it supports BTC and LTC and does BIP0038 encryption.
I’d guess once Muddy’s brilliant FTC ATM is more automated for generating addresses there could be a cashless version for this exact purpose?
