Also, I wouldn't use the reference wallet (bitcoind or bitcoin-qt) for a serious Bitcoin investment as it lacks passphrase or PIN support, and doesn't encrypt the wallet. I use a combination of Offline wallets and Armory for storing Bitcoin, with "hot wallets" on my phone for Coinbase and Mycelium so I can use Bitcoin when out and about. On Jul 31, 2014 10:52 AM, "David Madden" <[email protected]> wrote:
> There was a guy at the last meeting who had a BitCoin ATM box...he gave > me a printed wallet from a Piperwallet printer, but I haven't been able > to figure out how to get the wallet keys into my Mac BitCoin-Qt client. > In fact, although my local node is now (supposedly) current on the > blockchain, I can't find the transaction listed on the paper wallet. > (Blockchain.info shows it was recorded properly.) > > I'd like to keep using the Mac BitCoin-Qt client, because it took 2-3 > days to bootstrap the local copy of the block chain. Does anybody know > how I can get the paper wallet keys added to the Mac BitCoin-Qt wallet? > Or am I going about this completely the wrong way? > > FWIW, I have Linux and Windows VMs on the same machine, so I can run > other versions of the software, but I don't know if the block database > files are interchangeable. (I'm sure they can't be simultaneously > accessed!) > > Thx! > -- > Mersenne Law LLP · www.mersenne.com · +1-503-679-1671 > - Small Business, Startup and Intellectual Property Law - > 9600 S.W. Oak Street · Suite 500 · Tigard, Oregon 97223 > > > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber >
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