|
Title: Non-connected Wallet Post by: IamFuzzles on June 21, 2011, 06:00:59 PM a
Title: Re: Non-connected Wallet Post by: Salain on June 21, 2011, 08:15:42 PM That should definitely work.
Title: Re: Non-connected Wallet Post by: bbjansen on June 21, 2011, 08:16:04 PM You will need to have your wallet connected to the internet in order to transfer funds to it. The safest way I can think of at the moment is to have a separate machine preferably running Linux and having a switch on it that allows your to give it Internet or not. I would turn on the switch when sending money to the wallet and than turn it off once the transfer is done.
Title: Re: Non-connected Wallet Post by: Salain on June 21, 2011, 08:18:53 PM You will need to have your wallet connected to the internet in order to transfer funds to it. The safest way I can think of at the moment is to have a separate machine preferably running Linux and having a switch on it that allows your to give it Internet or not. I would turn on the switch when sending money to the wallet and than turn it off once the transfer is done. You'd have to be connected to send *from* it. But to send to it? Nope. Also, you can use blockexplorer to check what the block chain thinks your account balance is. Should be an easy way to check your balance while keeping your wallet "virgin". Title: Re: Non-connected Wallet Post by: bbjansen on June 21, 2011, 08:24:39 PM Just put in your wallet address in the search bar on blockexplorer.com
Title: Re: Non-connected Wallet Post by: Salain on June 21, 2011, 08:27:26 PM Wouldn't I only need to connect it if I wanted to transfer funds from the wallet? I mean if the wallet's not connected the funds won't show up, but the addresses in it will still be connected to the btcn right? that's what I'm concerned about. You've got it right. Here are a few related threads confirming it : http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17697.0 https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16845.0 Really easy to check your balance, just go to the main blockexplorer page and put one of the addresses you've generated into it. It will look up all transactions related to that account. Try it with your current wallet. Title: Re: Non-connected Wallet Post by: mattboston on June 21, 2011, 08:29:41 PM Setup VirtualBox on your machine. Create a Linux VM and encrypt the filesystem, then of course you'll have a linux account that has a password, then in the Linux OS, create a encrypted password protected file to mount and hold your wallet.
Title: Re: Non-connected Wallet Post by: thecount on June 21, 2011, 08:30:49 PM Take a peek in the sticky: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17240.0 (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17240.0). It covers this kind of thing.
Title: Re: Non-connected Wallet Post by: casascius on June 21, 2011, 09:10:07 PM Before you do a backup, generate a couple of addresses. You don't have to write them down.
This lessens the possibility that you may later lose your coins due to not having a pre-generated "change" address. Always re-backup your wallet.dat after you spend coins, even if you only spend 0.01 BTC. Your remaining balance gets sent to an invisible "change" address and you don't want to take a chance of losing the key to that address. It's more likely to be pre-generated into your first wallet.dat if you generate a couple addresses. Title: Re: Non-connected Wallet Post by: TYDIRocks on June 21, 2011, 09:23:41 PM That sounds secure enough to me. Just make sure you have internet to send it to that, but shut it off after that.
|