It is a lot of money, so yeah, I was kinda nervous something might go wrong.
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 of 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 mini key in 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.
Hey man, congrats bro! (Can I be your friend? just kidding lol 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?
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 of 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 mini key in 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.
)I bet this will be one of those historic bitcointalk threads and I want to be a part of it.
you were very surgical in sweeping the private key (mini-key) to safer locations, like a Trezor Suite or other offline storage method (even though Electrum has support for mini-keys). I'm so glad you did, and enjoy your fortune, spend it wisely.
I'm very happy for you, enjoy your fortune, spend it wisely.
Hey mate, what time are we going to the club?
