What format does blockchain.info use when you export an unencrypted paper wallet?
Trying to import my private keys into strong coin it says "Error: Not a valid Private Key, We support the following key format: Hex, Mini Key and Sipa Import Format."
Edit: It's base58, not sure why strongcoin doesn't support it..
Topic: Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics - page 136. (Read 482400 times)
nothing against piuk and blockchain.info but all of you should consider Armory with totally secure offline wallets and one time paper backups with a deterministic wallet. all the bugs that i could find have been worked out and i'm using it primarily now with multiple wallet interfaces.
I will, when it's standalone, currently it is really annoying to have to run the official client and armory together to make use of it, also it eats away all my memory, so no thanks i'll wait a bit til it's developed more
It runs fine with 1.5G RAM now in Windows 7. I just keep both Satoshi and Armory wallets open all the time on my laptop and i suffer no performance issues.
Well, that's good news. Last I heard (I hadn't been keeping too close an eye on the threads) it required, IIRC, around 4MB of RAM.
Time to give it a shot. Offline transactions, here we come.
due to RAM reduction, he's gotten the requirement down to 1.5 G for Windows and 512K for Linux installs.
It's certainly a nice, helpful change. (And looking back at that, I meant 4GB instead of 4MB. Wow, am I showing my age or what?)
nothing against piuk and blockchain.info but all of you should consider Armory with totally secure offline wallets and one time paper backups with a deterministic wallet. all the bugs that i could find have been worked out and i'm using it primarily now with multiple wallet interfaces.
I will, when it's standalone, currently it is really annoying to have to run the official client and armory together to make use of it, also it eats away all my memory, so no thanks i'll wait a bit til it's developed more
It runs fine with 1.5G RAM now in Windows 7. I just keep both Satoshi and Armory wallets open all the time on my laptop and i suffer no performance issues.
Well, that's good news. Last I heard (I hadn't been keeping too close an eye on the threads) it required, IIRC, around 4MB of RAM.
Time to give it a shot. Offline transactions, here we come.
due to RAM reduction, he's gotten the requirement down to 1.5 G for Windows and 512K for Linux installs.
The multibit client (http://multibit.org/) can import blockchain.info backups easily.
I tried that, and it seemed to work, new payments do come in on the addresses I created in blockchain, but the balance I had on my blockchain wallet is not there. Multibit did "replay" from the genesis block, I tried twice. Any ideas?
edit: nvm, fixed it. You have to manually go to tools > restart chain and transactions
Then it works.
nothing against piuk and blockchain.info but all of you should consider Armory with totally secure offline wallets and one time paper backups with a deterministic wallet. all the bugs that i could find have been worked out and i'm using it primarily now with multiple wallet interfaces.
Hmm, I didn't follow Armory development lately but to me the biggest advantage of the piuks online wallet is that I can access it from eveywhere I want - either via web or using the smartphone app.
Hello,
So I was just wondering when the site is restored my wallets will still be there correct? Also I have backed up my wallets but a few days before the site went down. Now I noticed that when I would log into my wallet online that there were a few addresses missing and that I had to create new addresses. I never backed those new addresses up. Basically I have used those to play the bitlotto and want to know that I will still have access to those addresses when the site is restored. Please tell me yes because if not it would be a shame to win the lottery and not have access to those addresses.
So I was just wondering when the site is restored my wallets will still be there correct? Also I have backed up my wallets but a few days before the site went down. Now I noticed that when I would log into my wallet online that there were a few addresses missing and that I had to create new addresses. I never backed those new addresses up. Basically I have used those to play the bitlotto and want to know that I will still have access to those addresses when the site is restored. Please tell me yes because if not it would be a shame to win the lottery and not have access to those addresses.
The multibit client (http://multibit.org/) can import blockchain.info backups easily.
Sad news, another 48 hours without access to my wallet...
I tried to import my latest DropBox backup, but it keep saying that my password is wrong,
but I'm 100% sure that I used the correct password.
Can you mail us a fresh backup?
nothing against piuk and blockchain.info but all of you should consider Armory with totally secure offline wallets and one time paper backups with a deterministic wallet. all the bugs that i could find have been worked out and i'm using it primarily now with multiple wallet interfaces.
I will, when it's standalone, currently it is really annoying to have to run the official client and armory together to make use of it, also it eats away all my memory, so no thanks i'll wait a bit til it's developed more
It runs fine with 1.5G RAM now in Windows 7. I just keep both Satoshi and Armory wallets open all the time on my laptop and i suffer no performance issues.
Well, that's good news. Last I heard (I hadn't been keeping too close an eye on the threads) it required, IIRC, around
Time to give it a shot. Offline transactions, here we come.
nothing against piuk and blockchain.info but all of you should consider Armory with totally secure offline wallets and one time paper backups with a deterministic wallet. all the bugs that i could find have been worked out and i'm using it primarily now with multiple wallet interfaces.
I will, when it's standalone, currently it is really annoying to have to run the official client and armory together to make use of it, also it eats away all my memory, so no thanks i'll wait a bit til it's developed more
It runs fine with 1.5G RAM now in Windows 7. I just keep both Satoshi and Armory wallets open all the time on my laptop and i suffer no performance issues.
nothing against piuk and blockchain.info but all of you should consider Armory with totally secure offline wallets and one time paper backups with a deterministic wallet. all the bugs that i could find have been worked out and i'm using it primarily now with multiple wallet interfaces.
I will, when it's standalone, currently it is really annoying to have to run the official client and armory together to make use of it, also it eats away all my memory, so no thanks i'll wait a bit til it's developed more
I have also used Armory for offline storage and paper backup. The deterministic wallet concept is amazing and I didn't appreciate it until I created one, destroyed my wallet on purpose leaving no digital copies, and recovered it from my paper backup. Seems to do the trick.
It's almost in beta.
Thanks for keeping us updated! 
This is why your service shouldn't be free. You need to charge money and buy a maintenance team with it.
I'm not sure I'd pay much just to have guaranteed 100% uptime. A site going down for a bit isn't a huge deal... so long as it's not hacked and comes back reasonably soon (and it doesn't happen often) then it's worth the freeness. Piuk's better than any maintenance team anyway
Back even when blockchain.info charged a fee, I kept my (encrypted) private keys with an account at StrongCoin as well as with blockchain's wallet. Bitcoin is still in its infancy, you have to expect some downtime from some of the startups on occasion. Having multiple places from which to spend your keys helps make it less of a nuisance.
I haven't tried Multibit yet, but if piuk is recommending it, and it can import private keys (c'mon Satoshi client developers!) then I'll check it out too.
As for Armory... I still love the ideas behind it, and continue to promote and support it, but personally I'll probably have to wait until it's a standalone program before it can run on my laptop.
nothing against piuk and blockchain.info but all of you should consider Armory with totally secure offline wallets and one time paper backups with a deterministic wallet. all the bugs that i could find have been worked out and i'm using it primarily now with multiple wallet interfaces.
I will, when it's standalone, currently it is really annoying to have to run the official client and armory together to make use of it, also it eats away all my memory, so no thanks i'll wait a bit til it's developed more
nothing against piuk and blockchain.info but all of you should consider Armory with totally secure offline wallets and one time paper backups with a deterministic wallet. all the bugs that i could find have been worked out and i'm using it primarily now with multiple wallet interfaces.
This is why your service shouldn't be free. You need to charge money and buy a maintenance team with it.
I'm not sure I'd pay much just to have guaranteed 100% uptime. A site going down for a bit isn't a huge deal... so long as it's not hacked and comes back reasonably soon (and it doesn't happen often) then it's worth the freeness. Piuk's better than any maintenance team anyway
This is why your service shouldn't be free. You need to charge money and buy a maintenance team with it.
So the enginneer restarted tomcat but the frontend still isn't responding. Couldn't have happened at a worse time as weve just had our YC interview and wanted to demo the Site.
I need to diagnose the problem but can't do it from here due to firewall restrictions so unfortunately the site won't be back up for another 48 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience if I could fix it any faster I would.
The multibit client (http://multibit.org/) can import blockchain.info backups easily.
Thanks for keeping us updated! I need to diagnose the problem but can't do it from here due to firewall restrictions so unfortunately the site won't be back up for another 48 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience if I could fix it any faster I would.
The multibit client (http://multibit.org/) can import blockchain.info backups easily.
So the enginneer restarted tomcat but the frontend still isn't responding. Couldn't have happened at a worse time as weve just had our YC interview and wanted to demo the Site.
I need to diagnose the problem but can't do it from here due to firewall restrictions so unfortunately the site won't be back up for another 48 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience if I could fix it any faster I would.
The multibit client (http://multibit.org/) can import blockchain.info backups easily.
I need to diagnose the problem but can't do it from here due to firewall restrictions so unfortunately the site won't be back up for another 48 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience if I could fix it any faster I would.
The multibit client (http://multibit.org/) can import blockchain.info backups easily.
Site seems to be having a bit of trouble. Im still away from home and cant administer it from here
but an engineer at the datacenter should be restarting the web server shortly.
If it doesnt come back online straight away you can import wallet backups into multibit.
but an engineer at the datacenter should be restarting the web server shortly.
If it doesnt come back online straight away you can import wallet backups into multibit.
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