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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: taplak on July 23, 2012, 01:21:29 AM

Title: HELP: is necesary running bitcoin to recieve coins
Post by: taplak on July 23, 2012, 01:21:29 AM

is necesary running bitcoin to recieve coins, anyone knows

Title: Re: HELP: is necesary running bitcoin to recieve coins
Post by: tbcoin on July 23, 2012, 01:23:55 AM

Quote from: taplak on July 23, 2012, 01:21:29 AM

is necesary running bitcoin to recieve coins, anyone knows

Title: Re: HELP: is necesary running bitcoin to recieve coins
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on July 23, 2012, 01:25:52 AM

No because you don't "receive" coins. Sender broadcasts a message (to every single node in the network) that "you" now have control of the coins. What enables you to spend those coins in the future is the fact that you have the private key for the public address coins were sent to.

You (either directly as a full node or indirectly as a lite client/webservice) only need access to the blockchain to verify coins were sent and to spend them.