<p>don't worry -- they're there for convenience only.</p>

<p>Scanning the QR code helps reading either a public key (to verify) or your private key (to spend your bitcoins) into whatever application you are using to verify or spend from your balance respectively.</p>

<p>Copy-and-paste works as well, doing the same for you as those QR codes you see everywhere... </p>

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marquix
<p>Just bought $5 of Bitcoins from CoinBase. How do I spend them? I gather it has something to do with QR codes. . . . </p>

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What's up with all the QR codes?
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# What's up with all the QR codes?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-03-12)

Just bought $5 of Bitcoins from CoinBase. How do I spend them? I gather it has something to do with QR codes. . . .

**Tags:** coinbase.com, spending


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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-03-15. Score: 0

don't worry -- they're there for convenience only.

Scanning the QR code helps reading either a public key (to verify) or your private key (to spend your bitcoins) into whatever application you are using to verify or spend from your balance respectively.

Copy-and-paste works as well, doing the same for you as those QR codes you see everywhere...


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