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Bitcoin => Armory => Topic started by: DrakonX on December 06, 2017, 10:53:24 AM



Title: Deleting the wallet
Post by: DrakonX on December 06, 2017, 10:53:24 AM
Assuming the case, I have a paper wallet, can I safely continue with the dialog shown on the screenshot? Or will I lose all my bitcoins?

http://fs1.directupload.net/images/171206/unpkjxil.png (http://www.directupload.net)


Title: Re: Deleting the wallet
Post by: HCP on December 06, 2017, 11:03:24 AM
It's a watching only wallet anyway according to that screenshot... ie. it doesn't contain any private keys... so you can't use that wallet to spend your coins anyway.


Title: Re: Deleting the wallet
Post by: DrakonX on December 07, 2017, 04:33:46 PM
Well, that means as I don't have a non-watching-only copy left somewhere else, I won't be able to spend the money regardless of having a paper backup that has been created befor I change the wallet to a watching-only one?


Title: Re: Deleting the wallet
Post by: gangtraet on December 08, 2017, 02:16:43 PM
It means that you will only be able to spend the money using the paper backup.

From the paper backup, you can create a full wallet.  You do not need the watch-only wallet for that process.


Title: Re: Deleting the wallet
Post by: DrakonX on December 08, 2017, 02:54:34 PM
Great, I now know that don't destroy my paper backup by deleting the mentioned wallet from my disk. Thank you. :)