Text to include quotation marks in the command

[ecurrencyhodler]

I didn't realize I needed to include quotation marks. Might be helpful to call that out. Here's my suggestion but feel free to revise the copy.

This is such a cool project and I wish I had something like this when I first was exploring Bitcoin. Great work Satsie and thank you so much!

[satsie]

Thanks for the PR! I think you've honed in on an issue with the instructions that a small, but significant percentage of people are hitting. You don't need to type anything in quotes, everything you need has been saved to a variable.

verifySignature(publicKey, message, signature) should work exactly as typed. Is this by any chance where you were running into copy/paste problems too? If so, I could use some help on how to word this to make it more obvious :sweat_smile:

[ecurrencyhodler]

Hmmm that's strange. I tried typing it without the quotation marks but hit an error. Maybe I missed something!

If so, I could use some help on how to word this to make it more obvious

As a non-coder, I have no idea what a variable means. Maybe including a one liner on what a variable is? Or explicitly call out that they don't need to use quotation marks. Maybe something like this?

"Similar to the previous lesson, this tutorial has automatically converted the publicKey, message, and signature you generated into variables of the same name so that you don't need to include quotation marks when using them in a command."

Also wow, this is quickly becoming a CS class.

[satsie]

Just to be clear, you are doing something like:

verifySignature('DFF1D77F2A671C5F36183726DB2341BE58FEAE1DA2DECED843240F7B502BA659', 'my message', '18dd62c312a59e628f16c8134dc7df6566a233e179c4fb56b7c40a1fc56360a57c7ed6bbc9d326e508d65689d7c5f01685732201b0f788f4ee880a68637b45e1')

But I'm saying you only need to do:

verifySignature(publicKey, message, signature)

In fact, I didn't anticipate that there would be several people doing your approach (which is cool!)

I found the code causing the copy/paste problems. It's code that focuses/"activates" the input text box when you click anywhere in the console. It's not a great experience if I remove that bit, but I can see the frustration when it comes to trying to highlight text. I think fixing the instructions to prevent anyone from needing to highlight might be the best option. Prevent anyone from having to go down this path in the first place.

[CoderBoogs]

I ran into the same issue as well. I had to put ‘any message’ in quotes for it to work. For beginners who might not know what a variable is just having the word message there is very confusing.