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Topic: What to do with a 58 character private key? (Read 1584 times)

vip
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The Casascius 1oz 10BTC Silver Round (w/ Gold B)
December 13, 2011, 09:54:45 PM
#7
That app is not by me, just for the record.

Personally I use a patched bitcoind for redeeming private keys, but that is definitely not simple. Hoping Gavin and developers will see fit to add this function to the mainline soon.
hero member
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December 13, 2011, 09:44:08 PM
#6
If you trust it (which I do, although not enough to actually use it!... I'm paranoid), you can use casascius's

https://bitcointools.appspot.com/

to just get a wallet.dat file with that address, and use the "-rescan" command when running a bitcoin client.
legendary
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November 23, 2011, 09:35:13 AM
#5
Unfortunately, once you put the private key into mtgox, it will always have any funds sent to it instantly scraped and added to your mtgox account, you won't be able to use that address again for anything else.
legendary
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November 23, 2011, 07:44:04 AM
#4
I've been doing this myself. The only way I know is to import into MtGox with the website (not the app). I sure would like a smartphone app to do this.

Thanks - the MtGox method works nicely for what I need for the time being.
legendary
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November 23, 2011, 07:15:53 AM
#3
Use pywallet, and import the private keys into a Bitcoin 0.3.24 install and spend them.
donator
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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.
November 23, 2011, 06:08:10 AM
#2
I've generated a large number of bitcoin addresses and private keys - I can receive money at the bitcoin addresses easily enough, but what's the easiest way to spend that money?

Basically, I've just got the 58 character private keys - what software can I easily import that into to aggregate the funds? What's the easiest way to do that? Thanks!

I've been doing this myself. The only way I know is to import into MtGox with the website (not the app). I sure would like a smartphone app to do this.
legendary
Activity: 1428
Merit: 1030
November 23, 2011, 05:56:06 AM
#1
I've generated a large number of bitcoin addresses and private keys - I can receive money at the bitcoin addresses easily enough, but what's the easiest way to spend that money?

Basically, I've just got the 58 character private keys - what software can I easily import that into to aggregate the funds? What's the easiest way to do that? Thanks!
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