How do I check the balance on my paper wallet? - page 2.

J9901

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Quote from: byt411 on June 14, 2014, 10:20:41 AM

Coinbase is an online wallet, and your coins are mixed. That's why it can do off-chain transactions, your bitcoins in your account are recorded in a system in coinbase, and not actually on the blockchain.

oh ok. well no wonder. Many thanks for the clarification.

So if I use Coinbase's paper wallet feature (which i plan to), I'm assuming my balance still will not show up on the blockchain? If so, how would I easily monitor my balance on my Coinbase paper wallet?

byt411

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Coinbase is an online wallet, and your coins are mixed. That's why it can do off-chain transactions, your bitcoins in your account are recorded in a system in coinbase, and not actually on the blockchain.

J9901

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i did that..or at least i think i did.

Using blockchain.info, i checked all the addresses available to me in Coinbase...all were at 0 BTC.

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Just bookmark the public address of the wallet and check it on the blockchain.

J9901

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..without having to unload/sweep my entire balance on some other address/wallet?

Basically im going to use the Paper Wallet as a piggy bank...but I want to monitor it and confirm my BTC transactions are going through.

Whats the best and easiest way to do this?

also, I have some BTC sitting in my coinbase wallet and even when I enter the several addresses, including Wallet Address and those several automatically generated addresses after each transaction, into Blockchain.info, it says the balance is 0 BTC....hmmmmm

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