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Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on December 08, 2014, 07:32:31 AM

How do you check the balance of a paper wallet (in cold storage).

It's nice to reassure yourself a few times a week that your entire balance is still there lol.

Grin

Just write your address into searchbox on blockchain.info

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Quote from: Peter882 on December 10, 2014, 07:02:11 AM

Quote from: Amph on December 10, 2014, 05:48:44 AM

Quote from: Peter882 on December 10, 2014, 03:29:06 AM

Other than checking your address balance on block explorers, you could also make a watch-only wallet to keep track of your balance. It is convenient if you have multiple paper wallets and don't want to check the address balance one by one.

or just load your balance in a safe machine

But it will no longer be a cold storage once you put your private keys on a machine with internet connection.

i think what he means is just a "watch only" wallet where you only insert the address to be watched for balance changes

All transactions are in public blockchain, everone can check there what amount is at any address.

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Quote from: Peter882 on December 10, 2014, 07:02:11 AM

Quote from: Amph on December 10, 2014, 05:48:44 AM

Quote from: Peter882 on December 10, 2014, 03:29:06 AM

Other than checking your address balance on block explorers, you could also make a watch-only wallet to keep track of your balance. It is convenient if you have multiple paper wallets and don't want to check the address balance one by one.

or just load your balance in a safe machine

But it will no longer be a cold storage once you put your private keys on a machine with internet connection.

i think what he means is just a "watch only" wallet where you only insert the address to be watched for balance changes

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Try www.blockonomics.co

It supports tags and email notifications . You can add upto 20 address .

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Quote from: Amph on December 10, 2014, 05:48:44 AM

Quote from: Peter882 on December 10, 2014, 03:29:06 AM

Other than checking your address balance on block explorers, you could also make a watch-only wallet to keep track of your balance. It is convenient if you have multiple paper wallets and don't want to check the address balance one by one.

or just load your balance in a safe machine

But it will no longer be a cold storage once you put your private keys on a machine with internet connection.

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Quote from: Peter882 on December 10, 2014, 03:29:06 AM

Other than checking your address balance on block explorers, you could also make a watch-only wallet to keep track of your balance. It is convenient if you have multiple paper wallets and don't want to check the address balance one by one.

or just load your balance in a safe machine

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Quote from: Peter882 on December 10, 2014, 03:29:06 AM

Other than checking your address balance on block explorers, you could also make a watch-only wallet to keep track of your balance. It is convenient if you have multiple paper wallets and don't want to check the address balance one by one.

Thanks for that.
Typing them in one by one is a bitch.

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Other than checking your address balance on block explorers, you could also make a watch-only wallet to keep track of your balance. It is convenient if you have multiple paper wallets and don't want to check the address balance one by one.

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you just add a bookmark to your address info on blockchain.info

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Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on December 08, 2014, 11:59:35 AM

Interesting that you can search the balance of any public address.

You can see the balance that fellow posters here have in their wallets (the donation addresses in their sig any way)

Bitcoin #1! People can see that you have millions of dollars but if you made the wallet securely, they will never be able to access those funds!

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Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on December 08, 2014, 11:59:35 AM

Interesting that you can search the balance of any public address.

You can see the balance that fellow posters here have in their wallets (the donation addresses in their sig any way)

They probably have other addresses with stored Bitcoins.

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Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on December 08, 2014, 11:59:35 AM

Interesting that you can search the balance of any public address.

You can see the balance that fellow posters here have in their wallets (the donation addresses in their sig any way)

Thats one of the key features of BTC. There is a transparent public ledger.

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Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on December 08, 2014, 07:32:31 AM

How do you check the balance of a paper wallet (in cold storage).

It's nice to reassure yourself a few times a week that your entire balance is still there lol.

Grin

You can check the balance using any blockchain explorer.

https://blockexplorer.com/address/1CcNYwpsgkUgpzTNA3nLMVQqWxuJ81JwjH
https://www.biteasy.com/blockchain/addresses/1CcNYwpsgkUgpzTNA3nLMVQqWxuJ81JwjH
https://blockchain.info

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Quote from: ChuckBuck on December 08, 2014, 05:03:03 PM

Whatever you do, don't put all your stash on one paper wallet. Break it into a few denominations like you'd do with regular money.

Like you wouldn't have a single $1000 bill lying around, you'd have a few hundred, a few twenties, etc all split up accordingly.

I split my stash into '5 BTC' paper wallets mate.

It's the best advice going to be fair.

I also have two copies of each wallet laminated.

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Whatever you do, don't put all your stash on one paper wallet. Break it into a few denominations like you'd do with regular money.

Like you wouldn't have a single $1000 bill lying around, you'd have a few hundred, a few twenties, etc all split up accordingly.

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Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on December 08, 2014, 11:59:35 AM

Interesting that you can search the balance of any public address.

You can see the balance that fellow posters here have in their wallets (the donation addresses in their sig any way)

For this reason, use separate wallets for different sites and do not transfer or use your normal wallets with these addresses. Grin

People follow bread crumbs to your treasures. Leave your stash in cold storage/paper wallets.

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Interesting that you can search the balance of any public address.

You can see the balance that fellow posters here have in their wallets (the donation addresses in their sig any way)

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