Topic: How do I sign Message? (Read 202 times)

Signing a message, though it is a neat thing to do, and potentially essential towards account recovery et al, is not something to lose sleep over just yet, especially on an account that has just been created (I took for months between creating my account and signing a message here on the forum).
When you eventually do though, for privacy reasons, you may want to consider signing from an address you are not going to use to send/receive bitcoins on. I’ve seen lots of addresses in the stake thread that have a balance and history of TXs, and I’m pretty sure that it’s better to avoid that.

Your initial priorities should likely reside in reading on bitcoin itself, determining how to obtain it, how to perform self-custody, deciding on the wallet to use, determining the entailed safety measures and so forth.

Actually you're don't need to wait until the next year because you can easily use non custodial wallet e.g. bluewallet or electrum to sign a message. You must use a wallet that has a seed phrase, not an exchange e.g. Binance, Kucoin, etc.

@OP is asking about safeguard his account in this forum, not safeguard his wallet and you're breaking forum rules by posting in a row, you can read the forum rules here [1].

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[1] https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/unofficial-list-of-official-bitcointalkorg-rules-guidelines-faq-703657

Well I will say the best way to keep everything in this world safeguard is to keep your keys secrets to yourself and to your family, no one can predict this world anymore, safety is the first rules that everyone deserves to obey to it forever, I know when I opened my first wallet account, and I invested my whole money in it and  I letter forgot my password, and if not of my family I don't know what would have happened, what truly matters is the type of wallet we truly use because things changes and updated too, I know also when a friend of mine that was owning me some large amount of money paid it back to me, that was $200,000 I make sure that I opened a wallet account for the whole of my family and I distribute the money to everyone and give them there seed phrase so there will be no lost, this shows love and kindness among me and my family because what I did is for the future...

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In this days now, we don't just jump into creating a wallet account without reading and studying the rules and regulations consigning the wallet account, there are some certain things we do that brings to our unsafety rules, we as the government in the society it is rightfully to open up our secrets to our partners, like I remembered when I created trust wallet newly, I have to save my seed phrase in my documents because I don't want any bad news that will lead to my regrets tomorrow because I saved our gambling party contribution into it, and that was a life changing amount, and I thank God almighty that everything was as planned.

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You can install and use a bitcoin wallet even if you don't own bitcoins.
The point is that if you have a wallet (a proper one) then you can use (the private key of) one of your addresses from your wallet in order to sign a message. A good wallet can do that for you easily, with little interaction.
That's why the question was what wallet you use: because the way of signing a message may differ a bit from wallet to wallet.

I am not using any wallet for now. I am still looking for money to invest, once I have small cash in my hand then I will use it to test run the Wallet I will open. As for now I am still on walletless. But planning to  have it early next year.  Okay I will do as you said, I will be reading it for sometimes to understand it fully, really as for now nothing is entering the brain. Everything is just vacuum.

I really appreciate your concern love.

Honestly, the thread previously provided is pretty thorough, although not all wallet procedures depicted there apply today (i.e. Ledger procedure no longer applies). Just read through it slowly and patiently various times. It's not trivial, but doable with a bit of patience.

What wallet are you using?
It needs to be one where you are in control of the private keys, and that allows you to sign a message from.

I swear to God, it is not easy to under these links provided by you. Is it that I will use my wallet to sign the message or everything will be done in this forum? The more I read the article or threads the more I am confused. Or should I Google it? And if it the wallet address or seed phrase that will be used to sign the message then I have to open a wallet address because as for now I don't have any.

After signing your Bitcoin message (you must do it through a non-custodial wallet), you can stake it in

• Stake your Bitcoin address here

Back to a prerequisite to have a non-custodial wallet. Because you must sign your message with your private key which you can not get from custodial wallets.

And if you want to move to an advanced level, let's try with PGP signatures

• [Eng: Tutorial] PGP Signature - Encrypt/Decrypt message - Fingerprint

People can explain the process without resorting to PMs. It’s generally best to keep things out in the open, providing you keep your privacy where you wish to keep it.

Read through this thread to see how to sign and verify a message: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-sign-a-message-990345


Note: beaten by a few seconds by the above post pointing to the same thread.

This is a guide on how to sign messages you can follow the instructions.

How to sign a message?!

I was told that the best way to safeguard my account here is to sign a message which I can't do. So I am eager to learn all the steps (process) that will lead to the perfection. Since it concerns the security of the account, I would prefer pm for the coaching for clarity.

Security is everyone business, it is not a personal or individual business. Together we save lives, properties and accounts.

Securing our accounts belong to everyone, but keep your keys away from people. Be your brothers and  sisters keeper.

Security is everybody's business.