Topic: Armory - Discussion Thread - page 48. (Read 521749 times)

Try
L:\something\Armory\ArmoryQt.exe --satoshi-datadir="L:\something\BQT\AppData" --datadir="L:\something\Armory\Datadir"

I tried it but its still offline. bitcoind.exe is under daemon subdir. Didnt look like it changes anything.

I think it should be the dir, where "bitcoind.exe" is located. Armory seems to be using that instead of the full Qt-Client.

Maybe i should explain a bit better. I run bitcoin-qt portable with the following link:

"L:\something\BQT\bitcoin-qt.exe" -datadir="L:\something\BQT\AppData" -server

It works fine and puts all data into the dir AppData so that it runs portable on its own.

I start electrum with:

L:\something\Armory\ArmoryQt.exe --satoshi-datadir="L:\something\BQT" --datadir="L:\something\Armory\Datadir"

Armory stores its data correctly into the subdir Datadir but armory is always only offline. Regardless if i have bitcoin-qt started from the start or not. Is it because my bitcoinqt is portable? So that armory is searching in the wrong place for the blocks and more?

I want to have both wallets completely independent. Ideally no traces leaving on the remaining harddiscs. I already deleted traces in user... and deinstalled armory and bitcoinqt after copying the dirs. Like i said, bitcoinqt runs portable fine, armory seems to run portable too, only that it is offline only.

I dont get armory to work with my portable bitcoin-qt. When i have bitcoin-qt running and start armory then armory wants me to close bitcoin-qt. But when i click the button to close it nothing happens except that bitcoin-qt is closed. When i restart armory then it remains offline even though the log claims that it understood datadir and satoshi-datadir correctly. It shows up at satoshiHome and datadir vars for example.

When im in the settings then its checked to let armory start bitcoin-qt. I didnt fill the dir-fields but the lower one shows the correct default dir and i see that armory stores its data in the correct dir too.

So it looks like it works... only it remains offline and asks me to download bitcoin-qt from bitcoin.org.

Should bitcoin-home dir be a different dir than the dir where the bitcoin-qt.exe is located? I tried the subdir AppData but without success.

Another question... is armory using bitcoin-qt for every network related transfer? I mean i can setup the use of the tor-network in bitcoin-qt, but i didnt find a way to do the same in armory.

Last question... is the use of bitcoin-qt resulting in traces? I mean when i use a copy of bitcoin-qt to run armory, are there traces of transactions, addresses and more in bitcoin-qt logs or something or is that independently?

Thanks!

You can require a password to login to your computer (and encrypt your home directory if you want)

Though the decoy wallet should be used ocassionally and contain something to make it valid for viewers. And of course you dont forget the password you should give in the case of threats. Best thing would be to use the decoy wallet as your real wallet for everyday things but the hidden wallet for the bigger savings. That would look most natural i guess. Theoretically...

But its important to not lose the passwords... worst case would be you lose your memory and you dont know you have bitcoins and whats the passwords.

And yes... bitcoin in itself serves a threat to its owners. Having your money at the bank is somewhat safer than having it protected by a password only. Bank robbers get a couple thousands if lucky. But bitcoiners can lose everything with a single password stolen, threatened out or forgotten. Not to speak about having no backups. So its wise to think about every possibility...

Edit: Of course armory and bitcoinqt needs to be portable. Otherwise important data is on drive c somewhere... Im trying to find out to how to do it with the flags at startup. bitcoinqt is already portable... now armory is left.

I like your thinking, Sebastian!
Create a tiny 10mb container file, and have an almost empty wallet as a decoy in the "outer" part, and the real wallet in the "inner" part! This helps against a rubberhose-attack in most cases.
And yes, those will come eventually.

Ente

I dont know a way directly but you might use a truecrypt file container. It has plausible deniability too. Make sure to backup the file container, for example to external harddiscs. And you might have lie the file container in google drive dir on your pc. That way your wallet is backed up in he cloud too in case you lose pc and backups.

Is there a way to require a password on Armory start?  What if somebody gains access to my computer, opens Armory, and can see all my transactions and also the notes that I have entered to go along with those transactions?

Good morning!


Now, after a restart(?), the wallet fix tool opens.
Somewhere it says that you don't have to enter the passphrase for wallet fixing, but then it fails to run the fix tool.
When entering the passphrase, it works, until it hangs at "18 of 107 address entries". After that, I have to forcibly end Armory.

Is this of any interest? Or shall I just grab a backup and forget about this?

Ente

1)I'm not exactly sure of the plans for this at the moment. If nothing else, I believe the core devs have a plan to speed up downloads in a future version of BC Core, hopefully sometime this fall. In the meantime, I'll see what I can do to speed this up. You can also, if you wish, do a bit of manual work and download a bootstrap torrent. Directions can be found here. It's better than nothing, especially since the latest file is missing only about a month's worth of blocks.

2)I'm sure it's safe. I really don't use QR codes on my desktop, though, so I can't help. Sorry!

1) Thank you very much! I really need this under OS X :/ Do I have to wait for the next version or will there be a work around?

2) Is it equally safe to use qr codes instead of typing the transaction signing data with my keyboard into the offline computer? Are there any good linux qr code generators that can create codes from a file?

+1
same wish

I just wanted to be sure that I understand both command arguments and it seems that I was right. I want a custom location for the wallet files so that's why I'm using datadir.

Exchange rates

It would be very good if we could have the Exchange rates in Armory.

So that I can see my walled displaying in my local currency.
I always have to convert my assets twice from BTC->USD->CHF. And then back CHF-->USD-> BTC.

That would really increase the user-friendlyness.

I thought you wanted to keep the wallet files

I'm using --datadir instead of --dbdir. Datadir has database+wallet while dbdir only has the database, but the wallets are in the default folder?

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Armory\ArmoryQt.exe" --satoshi-datadir=F:\Bitcoin --dbdir=F:\Armory

My armory/bitcoin setup is really using a lot of disk space (more than 40GB at the moment). Does armory use a copy of the complete blockchain ?

I would like to store the blockchain on a network drive. I was able to do it for bitcoin core by adding the -datadir option. Can we do the same for armory but keep the wallets local ?