Does anyone have a link to something that converts a Hexidecimal number to a Bitcoin private key?
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Something like this?
Oh private key. Misread.
Do you mean converting hex to WIF format?
The private key is a 256-bit length value.
I think so, I think it’s above my pay grade, heard a guy on WBD talk about flipping a coin 256 times, creating a binary, then converting it Hexadecimal and then converting it to a private key that could be imported into Blue wallet, wanted to mess around
What I did,
was flip coins. Do 11 at a time. Each 11 coins gives you 11 bits heads =1, tails=0. Convert from binary to decimal with a dumb offline calculator. Use each 11 bit number to lookup the bip39 word.
Print out this list. https://iancoleman.io/bip39/
So you can get 23 of the words that way. You have 3 extra coin flips which get used for the 24th word.
But you need a checksum word 24. It's those 3 bits plus a 4bit checksum. With a seed signer you can do it. I think some other wallets have a 24th word calculator. There is a page you can save offline to do it but I wouldn't run it on any Internet connected device or a device that ever will go online. Maybe a offline computer that has its disk wiped/destroyed after.
https://seedpicker.net/calculator/last-word.html
So then enter your words into any hardware wallet and get the private key. The wallet should also verify the checksum is correct.
If you just want a hot wallet, you can put it in sparrow.
Backup the final 24 words, not the flips just Incase your coin flip to word conversion had a mistake.
Oops. My link to the word list should be
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt
List starts at 1 instead of 0 so add a 1 to each of the 11 bit numbers before looking in the list.
Entropy details?
heard a guy on WBD talk about flipping a coin 256 times, creating a binary, then converting it Hexadecimal and then converting it to a private key that could be imported into Blue wallet, wanted to mess around
The elixir Bitcoin lib can do lots of stuff with keys and formats.