I wanted to make a Bitcoin cold storage wallet myself to DCA into when prices are low. I made one previously back in 2017 on an offline computer using Tails, but that was a ton of work. This time, I figured I would roll up my sleeves and generate entropy the old fashioned way: using skittles.
Skittles are a lot like dice. There are five different colors in a bag, so essentially they form a five-sided die (assuming you have even color distribution). So here are the steps to make your Skittles cold storage wallet:
Acquire Skittles
Sort them so you have an even amount of all colors
Mix them up (I used a cocktail shaker
Pour them out one by one and count out 111 skittles. Why 111? This is the number needed to generate the 256 bits needed for your private key.
Give each color a number. E.g., "Yellow is 0, Red is 1, etc." This happens to be a "base 5" number. Type in "Convert Base 5 to Base 16" in Google, enter your number, and get your base 16 number. It will look like an altcoin wallet address (0x...). This is your private key.
Using some python scripts you can find on like the bitcointalk forums (or stackoverflow), you can generate your public key from your private key.
Or if you don't like math I made a tool does all the hard parts for you. Do not use this tool for real money. If you are actually going to generate your bitcoin wallet from something like dice or skittles, you should do it completely offline.
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