Running a Namespace Versus Acting as a Subdomain Registrar

[nicktee]

aaron explains how to generate a separate keypair here:

https://forum.blockstack.org/t/obtaining-identity-keys-from-the-browser/4663/4

@aaron

To get a payment key, I always just generate a new one for a subdomain registrar. There’s many different ways to generate a private key and bitcoin address, but I usually just use node and bitcoinjs-lib . So, from a directory with bitcoinjs installed (just create a new directory and run npm install bitcoinjs-lib ), run node and then these commands will make a bitcoin address and private key string:

var btc = require('bitcoinjs-lib')
var paymentPair = btc.ECPair.makeRandom()
var paymentAddress = paymentPair.getAddress()
var paymentKey = paymentPair.d.toHex() + '01'

To fund that paymentKey, you can just send bitcoin to the paymentAddress.