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Topic: Wallet question (Read 820 times)

legendary
Activity: 3472
Merit: 4794
May 07, 2014, 06:09:29 PM
#12
There are people who claim that as soon as they enter their password, all their coins gets stolen automatically by being transsfered to another address.
How can you prevent this?

Keep the computer that stores your bitcoins offline.

If the computer is offline can i accept bitcoins?

Yes.

You can also send bitcoins if you use a wallet such as Armory or Electrum offline.
newbie
Activity: 28
Merit: 0
May 07, 2014, 06:05:37 PM
#11
There are people who claim that as soon as they enter their password, all their coins gets stolen automatically by being transsfered to another address.
How can you prevent this?

Keep the computer that stores your bitcoins offline.

If the computer is offline can i accept bitcoins?
legendary
Activity: 3472
Merit: 4794
May 01, 2014, 08:32:17 AM
#10
When you lock wallet, you can only stop sending out from your wallet address

This is not true.

Locking a wallet does not prevent sending from the address, it only prevents sending using that wallet software program.  If the private key is imported into another wallet, then the bitcoins can still be spent.
legendary
Activity: 3472
Merit: 4794
May 01, 2014, 08:29:15 AM
#9
There are people who claim that as soon as they enter their password, all their coins gets stolen automatically by being transsfered to another address.
How can you prevent this?

Keep the computer that stores your bitcoins offline.
full member
Activity: 224
Merit: 100
May 01, 2014, 08:09:55 AM
#8
There are people who claim that as soon as they enter their password, all their coins gets stolen automatically by being transsfered to another address.
How can you prevent this?
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
★YoBit.Net★ 350+ Coins Exchange & Dice
April 30, 2014, 01:21:30 PM
#7
quick question

if I lock my wallet does that still allow transfer in, but not transfers out?

Simple answer is yes, since your wallet is password-protected and no one can access your private key.

Complicated answer is not really, since you can still export the private keys and then lock the wallet, then import the address somewhere else and spend the funds there.

Plus all above ..Locking your wallet prevent you to do mining process specially with POS coin but still you can receive transaction in ..but you need to unlock it to send out ..
full member
Activity: 122
Merit: 100
April 29, 2014, 02:28:34 AM
#6
When you lock wallet, you can only stop sending out from your wallet address, but you cannot stop receiving money.
sr. member
Activity: 336
Merit: 254
CEO of Privex Inc. (www.privex.io)
April 29, 2014, 01:57:07 AM
#5
quick question

if I lock my wallet does that still allow transfer in, but not transfers out?
When you lock your wallet, this only prevents you from sending funds FROM the wallet. Your public addresses will continue to receive funds exactly the same, and are not affected by whether your wallet is locked or not.
member
Activity: 83
Merit: 10
April 29, 2014, 12:50:03 AM
#4
Right, the transactions happen on the blockchain.  it just means transactions cannot be made from your wallet while it's locked.
hero member
Activity: 798
Merit: 1000
April 28, 2014, 04:17:15 PM
#3
quick question

if I lock my wallet does that still allow transfer in, but not transfers out?

Simple answer is yes, since your wallet is password-protected and no one can access your private key.

Complicated answer is not really, since you can still export the private keys and then lock the wallet, then import the address somewhere else and spend the funds there.
hero member
Activity: 1582
Merit: 759
April 28, 2014, 02:56:43 PM
#2
quick question

if I lock my wallet does that still allow transfer in, but not transfers out?

Simple answer: Yes.

You will receive a public address. Anyone can send to that address. When you load your machine up and load the BlockChain, the Bitcoins will show up within your wallet.
sr. member
Activity: 266
Merit: 250
April 28, 2014, 06:01:06 AM
#1
quick question

if I lock my wallet does that still allow transfer in, but not transfers out?
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