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Quote from: Kupsi on January 20, 2014, 06:02:42 PM

I believe it is like this:

If you are the owner in wallet properties, it's called offline.
If you are not the owner in wallet properties, it's called watching-only.

The security should be the same, but you would prefer to not create a new wallet on an online computer.

Thanks, that makes sense.

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I believe it is like this:

If you are the owner in wallet properties, it's called offline.
If you are not the owner in wallet properties, it's called watching-only.

The security should be the same, but you would prefer to not create a new wallet on an online computer.

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I created an offline wallet on a offline computer and imported it as a watching-only wallet onto my live computer. In Armory it says My Wallet (watch) under the Wallet Name column and Offline under the Security column.

On this same live computer, I create a 2nd wallet which I then used armory to delete the private keys and turn it into a 'watch-only' wallet. This one however now says 2nd Wallet (watch) under the wallet name column (which is expected) but says 'Watching-Only' under security. My assumption was since both are 'watch-only' wallets, that the description under security would be the same. Does the different security type (offline vs watching only) provide different features/security levels? Or do they have different security type simply because one originated from an offline computer as opposed to the live computer, though they are both now in watching only mode? Thanks.

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