Decision Tree

Option 1: Create an online wallet and sell

There are several online wallets out there and numerous places where you can sell your bitcoins. Follow this guide on how to create Blockchain.info Wallet . It is easy to setup, requires no ID verification and it is safe.

Once you have made the transfer from your paper wallet to the online wallet you can sell your bitcoins on Bitonic and they will be transferred in Euro's within 1 business day to any IBAN bank account.

Option 2: Do nothing and just store this paper

With the private key on the paper wallet you can unlock your bitcoins and use them. If you do nothing the private key will remain valid and the bitcoins will remain on the same place. You can just wait to see the value increase or decrease compared to the Euro or another currency.

The disadvantages of this are that your paper wallet can be stolen, lost, burned or eaten by you dog and there is no way to recover them. So please make sure to make a number of copies and put them where bad people cannot find them.

Also note that you have to trust the issuer of the paper wallet, you have no guarantees he or see does not have a copy of the private key and thus can also spend your bitcoins.

If you want to use your bitcoins to sell them, exchange or spend them or maybe put them in a safer place you need to create another wallet.

Option 3: Create an Mycelium Wallet on your Phone

Installing a software wallet on your phone is easy, and the Mycelium wallet is very user friendly. Keep in mind that most phones are easy to hack so do not keep more bitcoins on there than you would keep in your pocket wallet.

Create a Mycelium Wallet and then transfer the funds from your paper wallet to Mycelium.

Option 4: Install Electrum on your PC

If you have received a larger amount of bitcoins or you want to learn and experiment more install the Electrum Wallet

With this wallet you have a lot of control and there is broad range of functionality but it still safe to use.

Import the paper wallet in Electrum by sweeping it. Which means all the bitcoins are transferred at once.

Or any combination of the options above

Of course you don't have to restrict yourself to one of this options, you can combine them. For instance you could sell the largest part on Bitonic and then put a smaller amount on your phone to buy pizza once in a while. Or split it between a user wallet on your phone a long term investment wallet on your PC.

And as final remark: there are more wallets and places to buy or sell bitcoins out there. I choose those because I know them and think they are good beginner options. But please look around yourself and experiment with other bitcoin websites or software.

A good place to learn more about bitcoin is https://bitcoin.org