Hey guys,
it was just today that I recalled that there is something like "Bitcoin addresses starting with a 3". And as I like 3 more than 1, I thought it would be "cool" to have a similar address, created by vanitygen, as I already own, but starting with a 3.
I already own one with the pattern "
FuckUp…", and so I created one with "
3FuckUp…".
After successful creation, I got this output:
3FuckUp
Difficulty: 478688906
Pattern: 3FuckUp s
P2SHAddress: 3FuckUpFfo28hxXb89C19Az2kfGh7JhGY4
Address: 19JFoRyGrUVN18qGhBSwvj6Cpt8pzTpUCn
Privkey: 5Th15I5n0tMyPr1v47eK3yS0noN3edT0TrY1fItW0rKstH4nKy4
Then, I imported the key using importprivkey, which showed me the address "19JFoRyGrUVN18qGhBSwvj6Cpt8pzTpUCn" in the wallet:
importprivkey 5Th15I5n0tMyPr1v47eK3yS0noN3edT0TrY1fItW0rKstH4nKy4
Now, I read that, to be able to use the "cool" 3FuckUp address, I have to:
addmultisigaddress 1 [\"19JFoRyGrUVN18qGhBSwvj6Cpt8pzTpUCn\"]
Et voilà, the wallet (Bitcoin-qt) showed me "3FuckUpFfo28hxXb89C19Az2kfGh7JhGY4" in the list of my addresses I own. I sent a small amount its way, and it shows as received (see 3FuckUp link above).
Now, as the blockchain on my computer is still more than one year behind, I don't want to wait seven weeks to find out myself when the blockchain has completely downloaded, eventualls, I have some questions:
- When I'm completely synced, will I be able to spend from the 3FuckUp address just like from any other (starting with 1) address?
- What's the purpose of the 19JFoRyGrUVN18qGhBSwvj6Cpt8pzTpUCn address which was generated while creating the 3FuckUp one? Are both addresses connected in some way?
- I imported the private key into my mobile Mycelium wallet. And, more or less expectedly, it shows me the 19JFoRyGrUVN18qGhBSwvj6Cpt8pzTpUCn address. Can I get my Mycelium wallet to also show the 3FuckUp one?
I read quite some literature about the P2SH addresses, which led me from contracts to MultiSig and other things on the Bitcoin wiki. To be honest, I did not understand much - there are some explanations and images of Bob and Alice trying to explain things, but I am yet lacking some "real life user experience" material. E.g. "I created P2SH address "a" for purpose "b", got standard BTC address "c" and used all those things in use case "d" which looked like "e".
Can anyone help?
As a thank you, I'm
offering 0.01 BTC for the first one who can answer me this in a way I can understand it. It's not much, but people do things here for way less.