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OK, I have a bug report/warning for users of the online wallet.
I have four kids and have created online wallets for each. Today I sent a small amount to one of them and was checking within their wallet for confirmation of receipt. While at it I decided to check another one of the wallets since I hadn't peeked at it in a while, in a separate browser window.
To make a long story short, logging into multiple online wallets within the same browser led to some funky behavior - I kept seeing the same public addresses show up in the different windows, for example. Another issue was that the various wallets showed the wrong balances, since they were listing the wrong addresses. So that if I wasn't double-checking very carefully, I could send to one address thinking it was Child A, only to have it wind up in Child B's account.
Only by Logging Out within a wallet and then shutting down and restarting the browser each time could I get the correct addresses and balances to show up. Note: I also had to do this to get the deposit I sent today to show up in the original wallet I was checking. Even after 76 confirmations in the blockchain it hadn't updated the balance within the wallet. So users should be aware that the balances in the online wallet will not update while they are logged in, even if they hit Refresh repeatedly.
This is only a minor issue (hopefully) for families, since a parent could presumably sort things out if they misallocated Piggycoins between their own children. It's a bit more serious for a schoolroom setting. One can easily imagine a teacher working with a couple dozen wallets having all sorts of problems due to this issue. The safe workaround is to always Log Out of the account online, then shut down and restart the browser. (Presumably this clears the cache that is the source of the problem.)
If you have any questions about it, let me know. Thanks to the dev team, I appreciate all their hard work and the progress that has been made with Piggycoin!
I have four kids and have created online wallets for each. Today I sent a small amount to one of them and was checking within their wallet for confirmation of receipt. While at it I decided to check another one of the wallets since I hadn't peeked at it in a while, in a separate browser window.
To make a long story short, logging into multiple online wallets within the same browser led to some funky behavior - I kept seeing the same public addresses show up in the different windows, for example. Another issue was that the various wallets showed the wrong balances, since they were listing the wrong addresses. So that if I wasn't double-checking very carefully, I could send to one address thinking it was Child A, only to have it wind up in Child B's account.
Only by Logging Out within a wallet and then shutting down and restarting the browser each time could I get the correct addresses and balances to show up. Note: I also had to do this to get the deposit I sent today to show up in the original wallet I was checking. Even after 76 confirmations in the blockchain it hadn't updated the balance within the wallet. So users should be aware that the balances in the online wallet will not update while they are logged in, even if they hit Refresh repeatedly.
This is only a minor issue (hopefully) for families, since a parent could presumably sort things out if they misallocated Piggycoins between their own children. It's a bit more serious for a schoolroom setting. One can easily imagine a teacher working with a couple dozen wallets having all sorts of problems due to this issue. The safe workaround is to always Log Out of the account online, then shut down and restart the browser. (Presumably this clears the cache that is the source of the problem.)
If you have any questions about it, let me know. Thanks to the dev team, I appreciate all their hard work and the progress that has been made with Piggycoin!
Thanks for the info; passing it on to our web/Android guy.
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Mo
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