Armory 0.96.1 is out!

[vintagemintage]

I downloaded this and I regret it now    Didn't realize that it had to run a full BTC node in order to be online.  So does the wallet actually have a BTC core running in the background.  I DID NOT download separately, but the way the dashboard represents itself makes it seem like it is syncing up.  It says offline but there is a notice saying "preparing database".  In the settings the directory for BTC is blank but again the program is vague in saying that Armory is 'managing' it if blank.  There is no indication that Armory cannot find the database.

Can someone tell me whether or not i have to separately download BTC?  thx


poorly designed UX imho

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[HCP]

Yes, you need to have Bitcoin Core installed and fully synced to properly use Armory.

Without Core, Armory has no block or transaction data to work with and no way to broadcast transactions to the network.

[RoadStress]

How do I generate P2WPKH address? I assume that the lack of an address makes the option P2SH-P2WPKH to be disabled when trying to send to a self address.

What is P2SH-P2K? Pay to public key?

[achow101]

How do I generate P2WPKH address?

You can't. Such addresses don't exist yet.

I assume that the lack of an address makes the option P2SH-P2WPKH to be disabled when trying to send to a self address.

No, that is disabled because segwit is hardcoded to be disabled on mainnet for now. We will be releasing another version with segwit enabled soon.

What is P2SH-P2K? Pay to public key?

Yes. That uses compressed keys and that is pretty much the only reason you would want to use it.

[RoadStress]

How do I generate P2WPKH address?

You can't. Such addresses don't exist yet.

I thought that I will send a SegWit transaction to an address that starts with 3.

[achow101]

I thought that I will send a SegWit transaction to an address that starts with 3.

Those addresses are P2SH nested addresses. Armory will make those in the next version which will have those enabled.

[RoadStress]

I thought that I will send a SegWit transaction to an address that starts with 3.

Those addresses are P2SH nested addresses. Armory will make those in the next version which will have those enabled.

What are nested addresses? What is the difference? Sorry, but I couldn't find anything about this on a quick search. Every day you learn something new about bitcoin

[achow101]

What are nested addresses? What is the difference? Sorry, but I couldn't find anything about this on a quick search. Every day you learn something new about bitcoin

Segwit defines two new output script types, Pay-to-witness-pubkey-hash (P2WPKH) and Pay-to-Witness-Script-Hash (P2WSH). When used as a normal output, those outputs are known as native segwit outputs. However those output scripts could be used as the redeemScript of a P2SH output. When that happens, they are known as P2SH nested segwit outputs.

[OmegaStarScream]

Probably not the best place to post this but I didn't want to post a thread because other people have more important problems. I'm with the translations once again, I want to know what the percentages refers to? like 'Wallet: %1' or something similar, they shouldn't be deleted in any case?

[achow101]

Probably not the best place to post this but I didn't want to post a thread because other people have more important problems. I'm with the translations once again, I want to know what the percentages refers to? like 'Wallet: %1' or something similar, they shouldn't be deleted in any case?

Those are format specifiers. There will be strings that go in the place of those percentages that won't be translated. These strings are usually IDs and such, e.g. "Wallet: %1" may become "Wallet: xFjsjKSn"