Thankfully Casascius is that guy. I have seen a half dozen threads like this and they all ended up being typos. It is pretty easy to do since the writing is very small. A good magnifying glass helps. It would be nice if clients and websites stated "this is an invalid private key" as opposed to incorrectly stating the "balance/value is zero". There is a reason for the SHA256 check (ignored by AFAIK every website and client).
bitaddress.org does check. 
Topic: Privet key contains no funds? [solved] (Read 743 times)
To do this right it takes someone who is meticulous. Who both in procedure and practice builds a system which has a 0% error rate.
Thankfully Casascius is that guy. I have seen a half dozen threads like this and they all ended up being typos. It is pretty easy to do since the writing is very small. A good magnifying glass helps. It would be nice if clients and websites stated "this is an invalid private key" as opposed to incorrectly stating the "balance/value is zero". There is a reason for the SHA256 check (ignored by AFAIK every website and client).
Thankfully Casascius is that guy. I have seen a half dozen threads like this and they all ended up being typos. It is pretty easy to do since the writing is very small. A good magnifying glass helps. It would be nice if clients and websites stated "this is an invalid private key" as opposed to incorrectly stating the "balance/value is zero". There is a reason for the SHA256 check (ignored by AFAIK every website and client).
It's pretty impressive that Casascius has never had any PR issues.
never mind somehow I typed it wrong four times...it worked now 
I bought a few casascius coins and the public key checks out put when I enter the private key into armory it says looks like this block contains no funds.
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