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Title: Checking balance of a wallet without exposing the wallet to transactions? Post by: vermorel on July 19, 2011, 06:05:50 AM The strongest way to secure a bitcoin wallet consists of create it offline and keep it offline.
As far my understanding goes, there is no way to check the balance a wallet without retrieving the transaction history. Hence, it should be possible to retrieve all transactions on an unsecure networked machine, and then to copy the transactions to a portable drive, and then re-run the Bitcoin client on a secure strictly offline machine to assess a somewhat not-too-old balance value for wallet. Is my understanding correct? Is there smarter ways to achieve the same result? Title: Re: Checking balance of a wallet without exposing the wallet to transactions? Post by: casascius on July 19, 2011, 06:12:55 AM If you know the bitcoin addresses to which the wallet's coins were sent, just look them up on blockexplorer.com.
Title: Re: Checking balance of a wallet without exposing the wallet to transactions? Post by: vermorel on July 19, 2011, 06:17:29 AM Yes, indeed.
Title: Re: Checking balance of a wallet without exposing the wallet to transactions? Post by: AndreasBrekken on July 19, 2011, 08:04:10 AM Nice, thanks for the tip.
Title: Re: Checking balance of a wallet without exposing the wallet to transactions? Post by: Kermee on July 19, 2011, 08:04:44 AM If you know the bitcoin addresses to which the wallet's coins were sent, just look them up on blockexplorer.com. This. Cheers, Kermee Title: Re: Checking balance of a wallet without exposing the wallet to transactions? Post by: Stephen Gornick on July 19, 2011, 11:19:19 AM I've not used it but there is:
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