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Welcome! Let's print out a beautiful and secure wallet for your bitcoins.
Here's an overview of what will happen, step by step.Select your wallet design or language here:
Basic security checklist:
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Before printing out a wallet you'll need to "calibrate" your output using the zoom and horizontal shift adjustments to accommodate your particular browser / printer combination. Without proper callibration, your wallet may print out too small or with a misaligned reverse side.
Step 2: Print Front
Next we'll print out the front side of your wallet. A public address and private key will automatically be generated, or you can supply your own key if you are using 'vanitygen' or some other random key generator.
Step 3: Print Back
Then you will put the same page back in your printer (but flipped over) to print out the back side of your wallet. This isn't just for good looks: the back side design includes additional tamper-resistant safeguards.
Step 4: Cut, Fold, Seal & Fund
Find your scissors! The final step is to cut out your wallet, fold it, and seal it with opaque (light-blocking) tape. Now you're ready to transfer bitcoins from your online holdings to your new wallet.
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To calibrate your output, print out this page in LANDSCAPE (wide) format. Based on the results, adjust the "zoom" and "horizontal shift" until your printed ruler approximates a real ruler, and leaves equal margins on the left and right sides of the page. Consider letting us know what settings worked best.
Print Calibration Test
About "BIP38" Encryption
If you encrypt your private key with BIP38 and you lose your password, it will be impossible to recover the funds you have sent to this wallet. Also, in order to import a BIP38 encrypted wallet, you may have to use a 3rd party tool such as bitaddress.org to decrypt your private key before importing or sweeping this wallet to a live wallet or service.
If you do not have a strong understanding of the BIP38 encryption and decryption workflow, DO NOT ENCRYPT YOUR WALLET. Just print it out in the usual way (which uses the more widely supported "Wallet Import Format" to encode your private key.)
Reload the front page into your printer first. And don't forget to print in LANDSCAPE mode!
Print Wallet Back
How to cut & fold your 2-sided wallet:
Cut out your wallet (use the dotted lines on the front as a guide, not the back!)Now fold the more narrow private key area in half, and then over again as indicated by the dotted lines in this diagram:
The final wallet will be a rectangle shape with the more narrow private key area folded over it, like this:
Finally seal your wallet by placing two strips of sturdy light-blocking tape over the top and bottom edges of the private (folded) area. A zip-seal bag will keep it safe from moisture (especially important for inkjet prints.)
Purchase hologram stickers and/or zip-sealing bags »
How to add funds to your wallet:
Send bitcoins to the address (or QR code) where your wallet says "PUBLIC ADDRESS".How to withdraw funds from your wallet:
You should expect to withdraw the entire balance of the wallet by importing it (or "sweeping" it) to a live wallet, e.g. a Bitcoin wallet application or online service like blockchain.info or coinbase.com. Click here for important tips on withdrawing funds from your wallet »Validate / decrypt private key
Enter or scan any private key into this form to display all available details and formats for that key. This should work for private keys generated by BitcoinPaperWallet.com as well as any other Bitcoin service.
For example, if you have a wallet encrypted with a BIP38 passphrase, you can use this form to decrypt your private key and retrieve the standard Wallet Import Format (WIF) key suitable for wallet software and services that don't directly support BIP38 importing.
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Details for:
Your Bitcoin Private Key is a unique secret number that only you know. It can be encoded in a number of different formats. Below we show the Bitcoin Address and Public Key that corresponds to your Private Key as well as your Private Key in the most popular encoding formats (WIF, WIFC, HEX, B64, MINI).Bitcoin v0.6+ stores public keys in compressed format. The client now also supports import and export of private keys with importprivkey/dumpprivkey. The format of the exported private key is determined by whether the address was generated in an old or new wallet.
51 characters base58, starts with a '5'
52 characters base58, starts with a 'K' or 'L'