This is a tool to create a number of bitcoin paper wallets suitable for printing out and giving as gifts. A 256-bit bip39 random seed phrase is generated and then a bip84 Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet is generated from that. The paper wallet displays the master extended keys for the wallet on the front and the seed phrase on the back, along with some other information about useful apps for importing the wallet and obtaining more bitcoin.

This project is written in python and depends on the following python packages:

• Bitcoinlib
• qrcode
• Pillow

To generate some wallets, create a file in the same directory as the make_wallets script named names. In that file, put a name per line for each wallet you’d like to generate. Then run:

./make_wallets

It will create a pdf file name, BTC_PAPERWallet_Design.pdf in the same directory.

It will also leave bitcoin wallets in Bitcoinlib’s sqlite database. You can see the wallets that were created using the command-line wallet tools that comes with Bitcoinlib, like so:

clw --list-wallets

See the documentation on clw for more on that.

Ideally this would be easier to customize (for example, to replace my Swan Bitcoin referral URL with your own, or to use a different paper wallet template). This is my first foray into generating images and pdf files with python and I’m sure I have lots to learn there.

Pull requests are very welcome!