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Making a Qbit Paper Wallet

You can quickly create a paper wallet to hold and receive your funds from other Qbit accounts

A paper wallet is a form of cold wallet to get you started, Some limitations exist such as you will not be able to spend or send your funds to other accounts, friends or family until you set up a GUI, CLI, or other Web Wallet.


Making your Paper Wallet on an Air-Gapped Machine

Go to The Qbit GitHub repository (on a machine connected to the internet).

Then follow these steps:

Windows

  • Click on Clone or Download

  • Click on Download ZIP

  • Extract the .zip file to any directory of your choice (i.e, C:/Qbit-paper-wallet)

  • Copy/paste all the files through a flash drive to your air-gapped machine.

  • Open the folder where you pasted the files, (say C:/your_folder) and double click on index.html


  • Follow these steps.

    • Click on Generate your Wallet

    • Mash keyboard and enter lots of random numbers letters and signs the more the better for security. Make sure to toggle Caps Lock repeatedly

    • After you're done mashing your keyboard, press Generate Wallet

    • You will see an Identicon, Look for this id-icon when sending QBC to this address.

    • The letters and numbers in the blue box, starting with QBC, is your public address. You can share this address with others..

    • Save the Seed Phrase, the 25 words in the red box, safely.
      DO NOT SHARE THIS CODE WITH ANYONE.
      Anyone who has access to this code can access your funds and has complete control over your wallet and your money.

    • Save the Spend Key and the View Key, the two very long strings of letters and numbers, safely.
      DO NOT SHARE THESE WITH ANYONE.
      Anyone who has access to this can access your funds and has complete control over your wallet and Money.


      Linux

    • Open the terminal

    • Install git if it's not already installed (apt-install git)

    • Type, git clone https://github.com/k7n2g/Qbit-paper-wallet.gitand press enter

    • Then enter cd paper-turtle

    • After doing so, enter index.html

    • A page should open up in your browser

    • Follow these steps.


    Generating the Wallet

    • Click on Generate a Wallet

    • Mash your keyboard and start entering a bunch of random letters, numbers and signs in the field. Make sure you toggle on Caps Lock repeatedly.

    • After you're done mashing your keyboard, press Generate Wallet

    • The letters and numbers in the bluebox, starting with QBC, is your public address. You can share it freely.

    • Save the Seed Phrase, the 25 words in the red box, safely.
      DO NOT SHARE IT WITH ANYONE.
      Anyone who has access to this can access your funds and has complete control over your money and wallet.

    • Save the Spend Key and the View Key, the two very long strings of (seemingly) random letters and numbers, safely.
      DO NOT SHARE IT WITH ANYONE.
      Anyone who has access to this can access your funds and has complete control over your money and wallet.

    • When you have made your wallet dont forget to Print it from the wallet generator page.