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Title: Electrum not detecting seedless wallet, sending transactions anyway Post by: NoahTheTruest on February 09, 2014, 01:17:18 PM I followed instructions on the electrum site for creating an offline wallet, then using it's public key to "restore" a wallet on my online computer. I just tested the online (seedless) wallet to see what would happen if I sent bitcoin, however electrum never "queried for a location to save the transaction," it just sent the bitcoin.
What am I missing here? I noticed that the master public keys of my online and offline wallets are different, is this normal? Is there a setting that I might have missed when restoring the online wallet? Thank you. Title: Re: Electrum not detecting seedless wallet, sending transactions anyway Post by: NoahTheTruest on February 09, 2014, 02:01:41 PM Okay, I think the issue is that I was supposed to create a "watching-only wallet," which isn't clear from the online tutorial. Then again, this step is probably implied to anyone who's not a newb.
Title: Re: Electrum not detecting seedless wallet, sending transactions anyway Post by: btcven on February 10, 2014, 02:01:16 AM Offline: Seed
Online: Master Public Key To get the MPK you need to go to your offline wallet and use the menu option Wallet > Master Public Key, then copy it to a USB stick and restore from it in the Online PC Title: Re: Electrum not detecting seedless wallet, sending transactions anyway Post by: ViperGeek on February 12, 2014, 05:32:10 PM Okay, I think the issue is that I was supposed to create a "watching-only wallet," which isn't clear from the online tutorial. Then again, this step is probably implied to anyone who's not a newb. THANK YOU for clarifying this. I too was following https://electrum.org/tutorials.html#restoring-seed and couldn't figure out how to create a seedless wallet (Windows). I never thought about selecting "Create a watching-only version of an existing wallet", although as you said, thinking about it, it's "obvious" ::).It might be worthwhile to get this mentioned explicitly in the next revision of the tutorial. - Dave |