Am I the only person who can't follow the instructions? What is the finished product supposed to look like?
PaperCoin - paper offline Bitcoin wallets
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#22Am I the only person who can't follow the instructions? What is the finished product supposed to look like?
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#23Am I the only person who can't follow the instructions? What is the finished product supposed to look like?
I am not a Bitcoin user and I also don't get it. Could anyone else please explain what this hash on the piece of paper is? Is this an address used to send Bitcoins to?
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#25Using a Bitcoin address provided by a web site to store your coins is Extremely Unwise. You would be giving the owners of that site the power to steal your money later. Promoting a site which gives a small convenience in exchange for the power to steal your Bitcoins is not okay . Even if the site's original creators are trustworthy, it can be broken into and perverted. You risk creating a repeat of MyBitcoin (an "onl…
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#26Am I the only person who can't follow the instructions? What is the finished product supposed to look like?
And where's my promised pizza?
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#27There seems to be some confusion about this project, so I'll try to explain: PaperCoin creates paper Bitcoin gift cards. You put money on the address, then you give the private key to whoever, and now they own the wallet. (Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not the author.) It all happens client-side using jsPDF, and you can run it locally by downloading the .zip in the footer. It's really not meant to replace any financia…
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#28Some related apps: optar - http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/ PaperBak - http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/ https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/WalletPaperbackup
I tried optar and did everything wrong i could find. I upscaled with gimp, upscaled not by a natural number, used a horrible laser printer with lots of artifacts, gray, thin, checkered recycling paper, folded it and it still worked. I was stunned. The decoder seems to be quite good, it can handle distortion reasonably well.
But it was only 50kB per page.
How does it compare to paperbak?
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#29Some related apps: optar - http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/ PaperBak - http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/ https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/WalletPaperbackup
Have you experience with paperback? I tried optar and did everything wrong i could find. I upscaled with gimp, upscaled not by a natural number, used a horrible laser printer with lots of artifacts, gray, thin, checkered recycling paper, folded it and it still worked. I was stunned. The decoder seems to be quite good, it can handle distortion reasonably well. But it was only 50kB per page. How does it compare to pape…
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