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A Catcoin wallet is as simple as a single pairing of a Catcoin address with its corresponding Catcoin 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 Catcoin 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 SHA1 hash of this HTML with the SHA1 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 Catcoin private key should be kept a secret. Whomever you share the private key with has access to spend all the catcoins 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 catcoins to your Catcoin address.
Check your balance by going to Catchain.info and entering your Catcoin address.
Spend your catcoins by downloading Catcoin-Qt from http://catcoins.biz and importing your private key into the application. Keep in mind when you import your single key and spend funds with Catcoin-Qt, your key will be bundled with other private keys in the wallet. When you perform a transaction, your change will be sent to another Catcoin address within Catcoin-Qt. You must then backup Catcoin-Qt and keep the data safe, as your remaining catcoins will be stored there, not just at your original address. Satoshi advised that one should never delete a wallet.
- Use the Bulk Wallet tab to pre-generate a large number of Catcoin 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 Catcoin 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 Catcoin addresses as they will be shown to customers.)
- Provide an option on your website's shopping cart for your customer to pay in Catcoin. When the customer chooses to pay in Catcoin 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. Google "Catcoin payment notification" and subscribe to at least one Catcoin payment notification service. There are various services that will notify you via Web Services, API, SMS, Email, etc. Once you receive this notification, which could be programmatically automated, you can process the customer's order. To manually check if a payment has arrived you can use Block Explorer. Replace THEADDRESSGOESHERE with the Catcoin address you are checking. It could take between 10 minutes to one hour for the transaction to be confirmed.
http://catchain.info/address/THEADDRESSGOESHERE
Unconfirmed transactions can be viewed at catchain.info
You should see the transaction there within 30 seconds. - Catcoins 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]
Catcoin v0.6+ stores public keys in compressed format. The client now also supports import and export of private keys with importprivkey/dumpprivkey. The format of the exported private key is determined by whether the address was generated in an old or new wallet.
51 characters base58, starts with a '6'
52 characters base58, starts with a 'T'