<p>It depends on what you mean by &quot;paper wallet&quot;. If you want to generate a 24 word mnemonic in secure, ultra-cold fashion, you'd need to use cardano-cli in conjunction with cardano-wallet on an airgapped machine.</p>
<p>If however you do not require something as sexy as a 24 word mnemonic, you can just use <code>cardano-cli address key-gen</code> on an airgapped machine and write down the cborHex of the skey on paper.</p>

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Ok yeah I just tried the commands air-gapped. Works like normal, interesting. So you could share an airgapped address with somebody and it will just work? 

Oh I changed the command from address create to address list.
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Yes, when you key-gen on an airgapped machine, whatever addresses you then build using the created vkey can be accessed/authorized with the associated skey.
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<p>Is a paper wallet the same as doing.</p>
<pre><code>$ cardano-wallet recovery-phrase generate &gt; recovery-phrase.txt
$ cardano-wallet wallet from-recovery-phrase
$ cardano-wallet address list | grep_first_unused.sh | QR_code_generator.sh &gt; wallet_qr.png
$ print_to_paper.sh &lt; wallet_qr.png
$ print_to_paper.sh &lt; recovery-phrase.txt
</code></pre>
<p>Or is there more to it than that? I have heard people talk about it but could not find the feature in the latest Daedalus.</p>
<p>Paper wallet as discussed by Charles here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwhB2YKYFKs&amp;t=1s" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwhB2YKYFKs&amp;t=1s</a></p>

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CLI creating a paper wallet
# CLI creating a paper wallet

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-11-10)

Is a paper wallet the same as doing.
$ cardano-wallet recovery-phrase generate > recovery-phrase.txt
$ cardano-wallet wallet from-recovery-phrase
$ cardano-wallet address list | grep_first_unused.sh | QR_code_generator.sh > wallet_qr.png
$ print_to_paper.sh < wallet_qr.png
$ print_to_paper.sh < recovery-phrase.txt

Or is there more to it than that? I have heard people talk about it but could not find the feature in the latest Daedalus.
Paper wallet as discussed by Charles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwhB2YKYFKs&t=1s

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-11-10. Score: 1

It depends on what you mean by "paper wallet". If you want to generate a 24 word mnemonic in secure, ultra-cold fashion, you'd need to use cardano-cli in conjunction with cardano-wallet on an airgapped machine.

If however you do not require something as sexy as a 24 word mnemonic, you can just use `cardano-cli address key-gen` on an airgapped machine and write down the cborHex of the skey on paper.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Ok yeah I just tried the commands air-gapped. Works like normal, interesting. So you could share an airgapped address with somebody and it will just work?   Oh I changed the command from address create to address list.  
> **username_1**: Yes, when you key-gen on an airgapped machine, whatever addresses you then build using the created vkey can be accessed/authorized with the associated skey.  

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