Thanks for all your ideas, much appreciated.
ETFbitcoin: I am biased towards bitcoin core for no strong reasons, as I see Electrum is open source too. However I do find it easier to send a whole balance from bitcoin core rather than electrum. (Bitcoin core does the sums for me
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poordeveloper: I didn't think of using a pruned node on the windows machine as a solution: I think this is the answer for quick wallet access without depending on a third party node.
I was watching & reading about people who set up a bitcoin core node on a virtual private server for the sake of anonymity, and I thought they told their wallet to connect solely to it, so I assumed it would be possible (and somewhat simpler) on a LAN.
I was assuming that bitcoin-qt (or bitcoin-cli?) could talk to the Pi node via SSH (or similar solution) to do all its work for it.
It's good to see there's a few solutions
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Going by this:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/7455/how-to-setup-a-lan-network-with-only-one-bitcoind-client-downloading-the-blockch:
I should try doing this:
- On the Pi, add "server=1" to its bitcoin.conf file
- On the Windows machine's bitcoin.conf file, add "rpcconnect = (Pi's local IP)" and ["connect = 0.0.0.0" to stop it from updating its own blockchain].
Carlton Banks: you've set off my curiosity regarding windows leaking user data. Have you got any interesting links on this? Thanks