Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your coffee
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer+ietf@nic.fr> Tue, 05 November 2013 06:53 UTC
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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer+ietf@nic.fr>
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 05:52:20PM -0800, John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote a message of 75 lines which said: > I got some bitcoins and coffee this afternoon. Now I just have to figure > out what to do with the little piece of paper with a QR code it gave me. Here is what I did. I do not claim to be a Bitcoin expert so it is probably not the best procedure and it may even have some flaw, but it apparently worked for me: 0) Authentify myself to the Robocoin (the ATM), with fingerprints 1) Create a wallet on the Robocoin. KEEP THE PAPER but do not allow anyone to see it (it carries the private key of the wallet). 2) Buy bitcoins by feeding the machine with a 20 $ note. You get a recipt (no need to keep it) 3) Install Electrum <http://electrum.org/> on your computer 4) Import the wallet by typing the private key (menu Import -> Private keys) 5) Your money arrives in the wallet 6) Spend it. I gave it to EFF <https://supporters.eff.org/donate> by clicking on Send then typing the bitcoin address that EFF indicates
- [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your coffee John R Levine
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Wiley, Glen
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Adam Roach
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Wiley, Glen
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… John R Levine
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Jon Hudson
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Keith Mitchell
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Ross Finlayson
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Wiley, Glen
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Ondřej Surý
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Ondřej Surý
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Wiley, Glen
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your cof… John R Levine
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