How To Make a Bitcoin Address With a TI-89 Calculator

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 4, 2015 @10:23PM from the next-week-how-to-make-a-castle-out-of-toothpicks dept.

sarahnaomi writes: The power of Bitcoin is giving your dusty old TI-89 calculator a second chance of being useful. Matt Whitlock, who helped make one of the world's first Bitcoin ATMs, is at it again. In a video posted on to Vimeo, he showed how using the calculator once only used for high school geometry and a 12-sided die makes a secure address for your Bitcoin account. The video self-explanatory. Load up your calculator with the code, roll it 72 times and enter the number rolled into it. After that, the calculator pumps out a private key and address.

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Re:Not many devices by itzly · 2015-04-04 23:26 · Score: 3, Funny

In theory, your "you mama" joke approach should work
No, yo momma is too big for a hash.
You accidentally some words by wonkey_monkey · 2015-04-05 01:55 · Score: 4, Funny

The video self-explanatory.
Ah.

Load up your calculator with the code, roll it 72 times
Okay, done that, but nothing much happened. What is the 12-sided die for?

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