A TwistCoin wallet is as simple as a single pairing of a TwistCoin address with its corresponding TwistCoin private key. Such a wallet has been generated for you in your web browser and is displayed above.
To safeguard this wallet you must print or otherwise record the TwistCoin address and private key. It is important to make a backup copy of the private key and store it in a safe location. This site does not have knowledge of your private key. If you are familiar with PGP you can download this all-in-one HTML page and check that you have an authentic version from the author of this site by matching the SHA256 hash of this HTML with the SHA256 hash available in the signed version history document linked on the footer of this site. If you leave/refresh the site or press the "Generate New Address" button then a new private key will be generated and the previously displayed private key will not be retrievable. Your TwistCoin private key should be kept a secret. Whomever you share the private key with has access to spend all the TwistCoin associated with that address. If you print your wallet then store it in a zip lock bag to keep it safe from water. Treat a paper wallet like cash.
Add funds to this wallet by instructing others to send TwistCoin to your address.
Check your balance by going to explorer.twistcoin.org and entering your address.
Spend your TwistCoin by importing this private key into a TwistCoin Core wallet (twistcoin-cli importprivkey <key>). Keep in mind that once imported, this key will be bundled with other private keys in that wallet - when you perform a transaction, change will be sent to another address within the same wallet. Back up that wallet and keep it safe, as your remaining funds will be stored there. Satoshi advised that one should never delete a wallet.
- Use the Bulk Wallet tab to pre-generate a large number of TwistCoin addresses (10,000+). Copy and paste the generated comma separated values (CSV) list to a secure text file on your computer. Backup the file you just created to a secure location.
- Import the TwistCoin addresses into a database table on your web server. (Don't put the wallet/private keys on your web server, otherwise you risk hackers stealing your coins. Just the TwistCoin addresses as they will be shown to customers.)
- Provide an option on your website's shopping cart for your customer to pay in TwistCoin. When the customer chooses to pay in TwistCoin you will then display one of the addresses from your database to the customer as his "payment address" and save it with his shopping cart order.
- You now need to be notified when the payment arrives. You can poll your own TwistCoin node (
twistcoin-cli listreceivedbyaddress) or check manually via explorer.twistcoin.org - replace THEADDRESSGOESHERE with the address you are checking:
https://explorer.twistcoin.org/address/THEADDRESSGOESHERE
TwistCoin blocks land roughly every 2 minutes, so expect a longer wait for confirmations than on faster chains. - TwistCoins will safely pile up on the block chain. Use the original wallet file you generated in step 1 to spend them.
[NOTE: this input box can accept a public key or private key]
[NOTE: this input box can accept a public key or private key]
TwistCoin Core stores public keys in compressed format and supports import/export of private keys with importprivkey/dumpprivkey.
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