Topic: Origami BitCoin paper wallet (Read 452 times)

I like the idea of paper wallets, but a little underwhelmed at the visual results from the usual BitAddress.org and BitCoinPaperWallet.com (no offence) and wanted to mesh the vast world of origami to the idea of a paper wallet.

The basic idea of a paper wallet is to produce two key bits of information, and much of the time in two formats (QRcode and it's alpha-numerical human readable form) - one public key and one private. At first I wanted a design of which could be animated to reveal the hidden key, such as with the following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROIc0nxxXhI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B6gCEoPPas

But I began to think that they hidden private key may reveal itself a little too easily, but the design wasn't bad. However, for better protection, and to make better use of the myriad of designs that would otherwise be overlooked for not animating, to go with something static and simply hide the private key inside the folds, so that it would have to be completely de-constructed to access it.

For that I decided to experiment with a sheep, which I will call "Torres" after its creator. Torres is capable of looking cute and having enough space to present both the QRcode and the human readable alpha-numerical on the outside. Naturally there is enough room on the inside of all the folds to put the private key, but crucially it must be placed on a part with several folds to prevent show through on cheap paper, otherwise it's not hidden very well.

I have the following design:

http://www.ultraimg.com/image/J72N
http://www.ultraimg.com/image/J72i

The following sketches show where everything would be when printed:

design (public key): http://www.ultraimg.com/image/J729
design (private key): http://www.ultraimg.com/image/J72F


I would like to amend the trusted method from BitAddress.org to spit out the design, or perhaps one at random with several to choose from (obviously linking to videos showing how to fold them) with all of the fold lines dotted on already as a guide (once folding this design a couple of times it's like second nature and can be done from memory).

The original video can be found here:

http://www.origamispirit.com/2015/01/origami-sheep/


I would like to know what people think, how it could be improved, thanks!