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Fix nit around online tooling. #1611

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15 changes: 14 additions & 1 deletion nakamoto-upgrade/running-a-signer.md
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Expand Up @@ -50,7 +50,20 @@ e.g. `stacks_private_key = "7567052905c21867fff273f5c018fb254a282499008d7e818193

Next, we need to add the `message_private_key`. You can choose to reuse your Stacks private key or generate a new one.

The `message_private_key` needs to be base58 encoded. You can use [this tool](https://appdevtools.com/base58-encoder-decoder) to encode the private key as base58.
The `message_private_key` needs to be base58 encoded. You can use the script below to encode the private key as base58.
Because this is a private key *we recommend you do not* use any online tools to perform this conversion.

```
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip3 install base58
sudo bash -c 'cat <<EOF> ./encode.py
from sys import argv
import base58
print(base58.b58encode(argv[1]).decode("utf-8"))
EOF'
python3 ./encode.py PRIVATE_KEY
```

In the base58 encoding tool, paste in your `stacks_private_key` and set "Treat input as Hex". Make sure you delete the 01 at the end or the signer will throw an error.

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