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Title: Adding a new private key without rescan
Post by: 🏰 TradeFortress 🏰 on September 30, 2013, 12:33:03 AM
Is it possible to add an unused private key to the wallet without rescanning?


Title: Re: Adding a new private key without rescan
Post by: grue on September 30, 2013, 12:44:06 AM
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importprivkey <bitcoinprivkey> [label] [rescan=true]

importprivkey 5yourkey "your label" false


Title: Re: Adding a new private key without rescan
Post by: Stephen Gornick on September 30, 2013, 12:45:52 AM
Is it possible to add an unused private key to the wallet without rescanning?


There was another argument to the RPC importprivkey that lets you supress rescan:
 - http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/9447/153

Resolved, see Issue 1085:
 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/1085