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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: bitcoinbitcoin on August 04, 2014, 11:05:18 AM



Title: How to view balances in cold wallet?
Post by: bitcoinbitcoin on August 04, 2014, 11:05:18 AM
How do you see transactions/balances in the cold wallet?
There is an option to EXPORT history, but how do u IMPORT history?

I even copied the whole "electrum_data" folder over to the cold wallet, and the history/balances still didnt show up.
Any ideas? thanks!


Title: Re: How to view balances in cold wallet?
Post by: dabura667 on August 04, 2014, 06:05:35 PM
You don't need history for the cold wallet. You just need to load transactions and sign them.

Cold wallets only need to sign, and they don't need a history or the same number of addresses as your watching only wallet to sign them.

Your cold wallet will always just show 5 addresses and 3 change addresses with no information about balance or history.


There is no need for the cold wallet to do anything but sign transactions.