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There's soo much rubbish blown onto this beach. Beachcombing passes the time whilst the dogs chase birds and roll in the remains of dead fish. I also came home with 2 x rubber dog balls and a funky piece of driftwood.
I scanned the initially concealed QR code on my phone, entered the also concealed code and was presented with a web page with info pertaining to a btc balance of 0.6104...ish. Is this typical of how these things work? I wasn't required to enter any other info. Seems a bit too easy to me....
Fair call. No worries.
That's odd to me; last time I made a paper wallet with QR code (that's a long time back, though), when scanned the code literally contained the private key; nothing more nothing less. A second QR code contained a cleartext representation of the address / public key, but neither QR code led you directly to a website with the wallet's balance.
Different types of such paper wallet generators floated around in the past, but I'm surprised that an old paper wallet contains a web link that still works. So many sites went offline; exchanges, online wallets and also block explorers.