Practical overview
When it fits
Use the repository when you want to examine Opendime’s example files or supporting code; the sealed-to-unsealed transition is also relevant when understanding how its bearer-style transfer model exposes the private key.
Who it is for
- Bitcoin users interested in passing funds using a physical USB device.
- Developers and technically curious owners who want to inspect example device states and key-generation code.
Documented uses
- Understand what the device’s new, sealed and unsealed states look like.
- Run the supplied Python verifier against the example entropy file.
- Inspect the included Bitcoin balance-checking and spending code.
Requirements & limits
- The repository separates version 1 and version 2 materials because the versions differ substantially.
- The key-verification procedure depends on the supplied entropy file and pycoin.
- The repository offers code and examples to inspect; its balance and spending utilities are supplied as Python code in a ZIP archive.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Verify the example private-key derivation
Run the repository’s Python verifier against its supplied entropy file.
Before you start
- A clone of the Opendime repository
- Python and pip
- The repository’s entropy.bin file
- The pycoin package
Steps
Install the dependency with the command below.
pip install pycoinChange to
unsealed/advanced.Run the command below.
python rngverify.py ../../entropy.bin
Expected outcome
The verifier runs against the example entropy file to examine the private-key derivation described by the repository.
Guide limitations
- This procedure concerns the repository’s example files and verifier, not an independent audit or a test of a physical device.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 18 October 2026
- Original website title
- opendime/opendime · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

