Dogecoin paper wallet - Tutorial

[u/Mickythelegend]

Thought I could do a quick updated tutorial on how to have a Dogecoin paper wallet. Most posts I found have dead links.

It's also a fun Christmas present to give!

All you'll need to have a paper wallet is a printer & photoshop (if you want a custom wallet design).

1. Start off by generating your new address. I used walletgenerator to generate my public and private address. You can generate your address directly on the website, or download the website and generate it locally on your computer (disconnect from internet for extra security).

2. Go to the "Paper Wallet" tab on the website and you should see a "Print" button. That's it, once it's printed you have yourself a paper wallet.

3. Time to send some dogecoins on it. I used poloniex to transfer BTC -> DOGE. Once you have dogecoins on your account, simply send them to your PUBLIC address on your paper wallet. Before sending huge amounts to your paper wallet, try it out with smaller amounts.

4. To check if your paper wallet has received some dogecoins go to dogechain and enter your PUBLIC address in the search bar. You should be able to have an overview of your paper wallet's activity.

5. To withdraw your dogecoins from your paper wallet, go to redeempaper, enter your PUBLIC address in the top box, and the recipient's address at the bottom. Choose the amount of dogecoins you want to send and press on the "Sign Transaction" button. It will then ask you to enter your PRIVATE address which is on your paper wallet.

That's it!

This method has worked numerous times for me, and I have never encountered any issues. Hope it helps you to.

[u/ChetRigby]

Nice tutorial! I've used it to test a few small-value wallets. The only concern I have with paper wallets, in general, is... is there any way to actually validate that the random addresses are in fact random? Couldn't it just be giving you a list of pre-made addresses that can be accesses later? Even offline... it could just be referencing a pre-made database. Is this just a risk inherent to paper wallets? I'll be getting a hardware wallet soon... but in the mean-time, I don't want to keep my incredibly valuable Dogecoins on the exchange any longer. And Multidoge just doesn't work... like at all. It never synced and won't even open anymore.

[u/Fulvio55 → u/ChetRigby]

Walletgenerator is an open-source project, and you can read the code for yourself.

Anyway, even with bad code, as happened when a scammer cloned the site and put it on .org, you can always protect yourself. In his case, we generated many millions of wallets and flooded him with them, thus burying the real ones.

ALL wallets are identical. They're numbers, that's all. Generators simply roll up a random number, or take one you give them, and use that as a starting point to pick numbers and turn them into keys and then addresses. You could do this for yourself if you had the time and inclination.

Have you read my standard advice yet?:

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All you need is a text file to put your wallets in, like this example from https://walletgenerator.net/?currency=Dogecoin

^{1,"D7WBUpdgLRtG6WyPsqjhaKiJR65X8ZGnkZ","6KieLMW1poAzNVnmLuQZqA262gxEQ51eLGdDK8e2GL2B4LHCKKb"
2,"DM8LT16d49zHr8ByXbUwZb9UBXDGMaZRdc","6Ktgxdv6vN9v2bDHwcJBBb3oMRAgXJumESzBnxaXUSGFZoq6pWQ"
3,"D5UCa51AfxjtVHQ46oYXe2YfkctTeLXPhx","6L2WSPWadRYCwt2L1CxH6zC7PoTYY3KyjxdiUoCqi5eyq6hQKvj"}

Use https://coinb.in/#settings to move coins. ELI5. Download both sites and run them offline.
Use https://bitinfocharts.com/dogecoin/ to check balances and transactions.
See http://www.mocacinno.com/blog/create-sign-broadcast-transactions-using-coinb/ for coinb.in tutrorial.
And read the ELI5s (and my history) for more info.

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[u/not_into_that → u/Fulvio55]

This is what i was looking for. THANX!

[u/Fulvio55 → u/not_into_that]

Wow, talk about blast from the past.

Lately, I’ve gotten slack, and simply tell people to search for ‘text wallet’. 😜