Method of Making, Securing, and Using a Cryptocurrency Wallet

• US 20150227897A1
• Filed: 02/11/2014
• Published: 08/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Anthony Loera
• Original Assignee: Anthony Loera
• Inventors: LOERA, ANTHONY
• Application Number:
  US14/178,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20150227897A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/065 using e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/0855 involving a third party
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3678 e-cash details, e.g. blinded, divisible or detecting double spending
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash

Abstract

A method of making, securing, and using a tangible Cryptocurrency wallet, wherein the tangible Cryptocurrency wallet is a printable medium that displays a public key that is in visible ink and that conceals a private key in invisible ink. The tangible Cryptocurrency wallet can be used in public by the user, for the private key can only be disclosed by the owner of the tangible Cryptocurrency wallet when the owner illuminates the private key with a light source that has a specific wavelength. The tangible Cryptocurrency wallet is a wallet that can be made of paper or of any material in which visible and invisible ink can be recorded.

Claims

1. A method of making, securing, and using a tangible Cryptocurrency wallet comprising:

providing a printer that uses visible and invisible ink;

providing a computing device capable of sending a print signal to the printer;

obtaining a Cryptocurrency address and private key on the computing device from a Cryptocurrency network;

providing a printable medium, then loading the printable medium in the printer;

sending a first print instruction to the inkjet printer, wherein the print instruction is to print the public key on the printable medium in visible ink; and

sending a second print instruction to the printer, wherein the print instruction is to print the private key on the printable medium in invisible ink.

2. The method of making, securing, and using a tangible Cryptocurrency wallet of claim 1, further comprising providing a light source that illuminates the private key so that it is readable to a human.

3. The method of making, securing, and using a tangible Cryptocurrency wallet of claim 2, wherein the order in which the visible and invisible ink is placed on the printable medium may be alternated.

4. The method of making, securing, and using a tangible Cryptocurrency wallet of claim 3, wherein the printer is an ink jet printer.

5. The method of making, securing, and using a tangible Cryptocurrency wallet of claim 1, wherein the order in which the visible and invisible ink is placed on the printable medium may be alternated.

6. The method of making, securing, and using a tangible Cryptocurrency wallet of claim 5, wherein the printer is an ink jet printer.