Show balance of an offline wallet on offline PC ???

doug_armory

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Quote from: Ratatosk on November 21, 2014, 06:28:41 AM

Thank you.

So, it's impossible to see/display the balances of offline wallets of an offline Armory installation on an offline secure PC Bitcoins storage ??

Quite "useless" to have secure wallets but not knowing how much they contain, if you open the offline Armory 6 months after (or your family if you are dead), and without access to the online PC Armory installation...

Correct me if wrong, now the BTC were sent on online Armory to the watch-only wallet generated from the offline PC wallet, I can safely delete the watch-only wallet on the online Armory PC ? Don't want people or hackers to see I own those BTC...

Yes, you can only see the balance with an online computer. If you were to somehow lose your online computer or die or whatever, there are ways to generate public keys from your offline computer, move the public keys to an online computer, and see your balance.

Ratatosk

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Thank you.

So, it's impossible to see/display the balances of offline wallets of an offline Armory installation on an offline secure PC Bitcoins storage ??

Quite "useless" to have secure wallets but not knowing how much they contain, if you open the offline Armory 6 months after (or your family if you are dead), and without access to the online PC Armory installation...

Correct me if wrong, now the BTC were sent on online Armory to the watch-only wallet generated from the offline PC wallet, I can safely delete the watch-only wallet on the online Armory PC ? Don't want people or hackers to see I own those BTC...

Thanks !!! :-)

justusranvier

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Balances are stored on the blockchain, not in wallets.

There is no way to measure a balance other than looking at the blockchain.

In theory, you could transfer a subset of the blockchain to an offline machine, but it could never validate that information or know if it is still current.

Ratatosk

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Hi, and thanks for your great work and this wonderful program.

I searched for the answer, on this forum and on Google, but did not find, sorry...

I created a wallet on an offline PC.
I created a watch-only copy of this wallet and imported it in Armory on my online PC.
I sent Bitcoins to this watch-only wallet on online PC.
Balance of the watch-only wallet on online PC shows the amount of Bitcoins the wallet contains.

Now : how can I do to "save" this balance on the offline PC wallet, so it shows in the balance column of this wallet ??
So I can see what amount of BTC each offline wallet contains, on the portable offline PC... without opening Armory on desktop online PC each time I need to know ??

And I suppose I can delete the watch-only wallet on the online PC Armory installation, right ? The BTC are "associated" to the offline wallet on offline PC ?

Do you understand what I mean ? :-)
Sorry my English is quite bad.

Thank you for your help ! :-)

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