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Board Collectibles
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Re: A Sad Day for Physical Bitcoin Collectors
by
JohnGalt
on 14/05/2025, 03:09:34 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1) ,dkbit98 (1) ,vapourminer (1)
If you are looking to sell this, let me know.. happy to help out! Cheesy

Lot's of people are asking. I'm not selling the peeled bar.

Does anyone have a video of the whole process? Peeling and then inputting and sweeping the funds to another wallet?

Did you do it all in one fell swoop? or did you do a test first?

Alright, so here’s the quick version. It wasn’t as easy as I thought, but since I kinda know my way around this stuff, I managed.

First, I tried using a razor to peel the sticker, but that was a mistake. Ended up just using my nail and it came off no problem.

I thought Electrum could take mini private keys, so I made a new wallet on my phone with the key, but nope—it didn’t work.

Then I found out bitaddress.org can turn a mini key into WIF, so I downloaded it off GitHub and opened the file on my laptop.

Scanned the QR code for the uncompressed key and boom, new wallet.

I wanted to split the BTC across a few addresses, but Electrum on Android doesn’t do that, so I redid everything on my laptop.

Opened Trezor Suite, made a new account, got a bunch of addresses, copy-pasted those into Electrum, and sent the BTC. Waited for it to confirm before saying anything.

Later, I remembered BCH was a thing (oops). I don’t really use it, so I had to look stuff up, found a wallet, imported the key... and yeah, someone had already used the image I posted and took the BCH. lmao

I didn’t test anything beforehand, and I wasn’t really thinking too hard about security, tbh.