You can't transfer bitcoins without the internet, but you can send coins to a address you generated on a PC you've never let get on the internet. The idea behind this all is that the private key, the thing that is your bitcoins, is never allowed access to the internet in any way at all. The public address for your coins can spread far and wide across the internet though, and for good reason. You can check and see that bitcoins are in your offline wallet (in a few ways, blockchain.info is good,) ready should you ever choose to import that private key.
I think you misunderstood "offline wallet" or something.
Topic: Transferring BitCoin on Local Area Network (Read 794 times)
yes you can move the wallet, but will need the internet to sync. Otherwise people would be able to copy wallets and fabricate bitcoins.
Hello and thank-you for the answers. I do have a backup i have been very careful.
I am under the impression i am supposed to be able to take my bitcoins offline. So i am supposed to be able to transfer bitcoins between wallets without using the internet.
Maybe i am getting it a bit mixed up, because i don't understand. Can i take a wallet that is on one client and move it (the wallet) to another client without using the internet? I am under the impression i am supposed to be able to transfer either the bitcoins or the wallet without using the internet.
Many thanks for your advice so far
KR bitcoinbaddie1
I am under the impression i am supposed to be able to take my bitcoins offline. So i am supposed to be able to transfer bitcoins between wallets without using the internet.
Maybe i am getting it a bit mixed up, because i don't understand. Can i take a wallet that is on one client and move it (the wallet) to another client without using the internet? I am under the impression i am supposed to be able to transfer either the bitcoins or the wallet without using the internet.
Many thanks for your advice so far
KR bitcoinbaddie1
If you have recent backup of P2 wallet.dat, close bitcoin-qt client, delete the current P2 wallet.dat, replace it with backup an start bitcoin-qt client with -rescan
you can't transfer the bitcoins between clients with no internet access.
PC1 is a publiic pc, that is, i use it for all internet activities and so there are no passwords stored on it. i access all my web wallets.
PC2 is also a public pc, but it is only on the internet when i want to transfer bitcoins from the webwallets to the BitCoin-QT (v0.8.6) client installed on this PC. It is fully synced before any transfer is done. The transfer from all the web wallets to the 'hybrid wallet' as i call it was successful and i have lost no BitCoins in this transfer.
PC3 is a private PC, that is, it exists on a network with no internet access, no wireless either. This PC has the Armory BitCoin Client installed.
I put PC2 & PC3 on the same private network and verified they can talk to each other...so no problems there. So i want to transfer the bitcoins from PC2 to PC3.
Before starting, i backed up both wallets in each of the software on the respective PCs.
But this is where i think my problem begins, because of my lack of knowledge.
What i did was on PC2 was to send (as a test) 0.1mBTC to the address on PC3.
I wasn't allowed to send less. I did try to transfer 1uBTC, but it wasn't allowed. There was also a warning when i sent 0.1mBTC that there was a transfer fee of 0.1mBTC. I thought that PC3 would get the money and 0.1mBTC would stay on PC2.
I waited over an hour and the bitcoins were not transferred to PC3. PC2 kept saying it was sending, but there was an issue.
I then found out, i cannot cancel the transaction. I tried everything, every dialog box nothing.
What i don't want to do is to put PC2 and PC3 on the public network, even for a moment.
The BITCoin Balance is reduced by 0.2mBTC.
The questions are?
How do i cancel the transaction on PC2?
How do i recover the 0.2mBTC?
How do i transfer the bitcoins between clients with no internet access?
PC2 will not be allowed back on the public network until the issue is resolved.
Many thanks for your help.
PC2 is also a public pc, but it is only on the internet when i want to transfer bitcoins from the webwallets to the BitCoin-QT (v0.8.6) client installed on this PC. It is fully synced before any transfer is done. The transfer from all the web wallets to the 'hybrid wallet' as i call it was successful and i have lost no BitCoins in this transfer.
PC3 is a private PC, that is, it exists on a network with no internet access, no wireless either. This PC has the Armory BitCoin Client installed.
I put PC2 & PC3 on the same private network and verified they can talk to each other...so no problems there. So i want to transfer the bitcoins from PC2 to PC3.
Before starting, i backed up both wallets in each of the software on the respective PCs.
But this is where i think my problem begins, because of my lack of knowledge.
What i did was on PC2 was to send (as a test) 0.1mBTC to the address on PC3.
I wasn't allowed to send less. I did try to transfer 1uBTC, but it wasn't allowed. There was also a warning when i sent 0.1mBTC that there was a transfer fee of 0.1mBTC. I thought that PC3 would get the money and 0.1mBTC would stay on PC2.
I waited over an hour and the bitcoins were not transferred to PC3. PC2 kept saying it was sending, but there was an issue.
I then found out, i cannot cancel the transaction. I tried everything, every dialog box nothing.
What i don't want to do is to put PC2 and PC3 on the public network, even for a moment.
The BITCoin Balance is reduced by 0.2mBTC.
The questions are?
How do i cancel the transaction on PC2?
How do i recover the 0.2mBTC?
How do i transfer the bitcoins between clients with no internet access?
PC2 will not be allowed back on the public network until the issue is resolved.
Many thanks for your help.
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