# How to sign a message in Counterwallet?

**URL:** https://forums.counterparty.io/t/how-to-sign-a-message-in-counterwallet/1230
**Category:** FAQ
**Created:** [May 24, 2015, 4:34am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/how-to-sign-a-message-in-counterwallet/1230 "2015-05-24T04:34:36Z")
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#### Post date: [May 24, 2015, 4:34am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/how-to-sign-a-message-in-counterwallet/1230/1 "2015-05-24T04:34:36Z")

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Pick the address you want to sign a message with, go to `Address Actions > Sign Message`.

![](https://forums.counterparty.io/uploads/counterpartytalk/309/bfc9c81adb3cd67a.gif)

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### Author: ![FoldingCoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/foldingcoin/32/218_2.png) [@FoldingCoin](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/FoldingCoin)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2015, 8:03am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/how-to-sign-a-message-in-counterwallet/1230/2 "2015-05-24T08:03:00Z")

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I didnt think that signing messages was working on Counterwallet, has something changed in which you can do this now?

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### Author: ![something](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/something/32/240_2.png) [@something](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/something)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2015, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/how-to-sign-a-message-in-counterwallet/1230/3 "2015-05-24T09:21:28Z")

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This works certain things, but it doesn’t for all.

Since you’re probably wondering about things like LTBCOIN address validation, that probably still doesn’t work but it’s a 3rd party issue that we reported upstream a long time ago.

> <https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore/issues/488>
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> See also: #437

For this kind of purpose a workaround is to export the address’s private key, securely import it to another (Bitcoin) wallet, sign a message there, and then remove the address from that other wallet or remove the address, if you don’t intend to let it have access to the Counterwallet address).

Additional information and workarounds:

- [https://letstalkbitcoin.com/forum/post/signing-and-verifying-signed-messages-in-counterwallet](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/forum/post/signing-and-verifying-signed-messages-in-counterwallet)
- [http://letstalkbitcoin.com/forum/post/ho-to-verify-you-address-free-?page=1](http://letstalkbitcoin.com/forum/post/ho-to-verify-you-address-free-?page=1)

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### Author: ![FoldingCoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/foldingcoin/32/218_2.png) [@FoldingCoin](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/FoldingCoin)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2015, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/how-to-sign-a-message-in-counterwallet/1230/4 "2015-05-24T10:10:31Z")

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For now I think the best solution then is still the companion wallet by @loon3 [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ltb-companion-wallet/jmjmgcgkbndiepapjbcabhdbbhmmkhmj?utm\_source=chrome-ntp-icon](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ltb-companion-wallet/jmjmgcgkbndiepapjbcabhdbbhmmkhmj?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon)