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Migrating from paper wallet to Ledger Nano S with private key ONLY
Our full guide can be seen and read here: https://myetherwallet.github.io/knowledge-base/migration/moving-from-private-key-to-ledger-hardware-wallet.html
Basically, use your private key to unlock ...
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Is there a way to generate ethereum paper wallets?
Printing the private key for ethereum in geth.
This is done for creating a real *secure offline paperwallet in your own WM which afterwards stores the money independent from a program *.
Based on ...
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How to find out the IP address of a MetaMask wallet's owner?
If an Ethereum wallet address was created using MetaMask
It doesn't appear so, at least during creation. (You can verify this by watching for network traffic during the creation process.)
can the IP ...
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Is there a way to generate ethereum paper wallets?
Additional option: Java based offline solution on GitHub.
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Is there a way to generate ethereum paper wallets?
Here's a new one with user customizable background artwork:
Memory Paper Wallet - Ethereum Customizable Paper Wallet
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3335760.0
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Is there a way to generate ethereum paper wallets?
Based on Richard's answer I created a bash script to build a more readable paper backup. As shown in the following example , the paper contains the address (to not confuse multiple keyfiles/papers) ...
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Storing Ether based digital assets in a paper wallet
A paper wallet is a way of storing private keys which give you control over an Ethereum account (which includes the ether associated with it and any tokens it has). Each account essentially includes a ...
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Set up a passwordless Ethereum address
You can have unencrypted private keys, of course.
Mnemonics is what can be used to derive this private key. So this can be used to generate a mnemonic (select ETH), and further down the site you can ...
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Sweeping ETH from a 2 year old paper wallet, help?
Private key is always private key - the format never changes.
There are, however, other ways hows a private key can be derived - for example from a seed phrase. And that format may vary. But if you ...
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Ethereum paper wallet address generator with ability to upload your own graphic to give as gifts
Here's a customizable one I made:
Memory Paper Wallet
source: https://github.com/xcubicle/memorypaperwallet
site: https://xcubicle.github.io/memorypaperwallet/
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ETH stolen from two MEW wallets & moved to an unknown address & then to ShapeShift
Did you create the address while online? It is almost impossible to brute force a private key in a life time with current computer power, much less several of them in a very short amount of time. The ...
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Creating an offline address creator for Ethereum
This code is mostly correct, but there are two small issues:
Before hashing the public key, you need to drop the first byte. The first byte often indicates whether the key is compressed or not. In ...
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Migrating from paper wallet to Ledger Nano S with private key ONLY
The aim of a hardware wallet is to never expose the private keys for the addresses it generates. The wallet doesn't want anybody to ever see those private keys. Instead of trying to determine if you'...
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Transferring Ether out of paper wallet
If you just want to view or transfer your funds around, you're right that a private key is enough. You can use MyEtherWallet (beware of scam sites) to do so.
https://www.myetherwallet.com/#view-...
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Printing Paper wallet for my Ether in Ledger Nano S
You cannot do this. The Ledger is a hardware wallet that's meant by design not to allow exposing your private key to anyone (not even yourself).
If this was possible, the minute your private key is ...
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Printing Paper wallet for my Ether in Ledger Nano S
You can go to https://www.myetherwallet.com/#view-wallet-info , login with your Ledger Nano, and click on View Paper Wallet. Then Print it from your Browser. Hope this helps!
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