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I find 99.999% of the blockchain irrelevant and a wasteful use of storage space in my personal computers. I just need it to sync my wallets.

on OSX what are bitcoin softwares that do not require downloading the entire blockchain? How can I find the wallet of my currently installed software (Bitcoin-Qt) and move it

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Electrum wallet. Works like a charm on my mac.

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  • thanks I had downloaded that but wasn't sure what I was looking at, how do I move an existing wallet to it?
    – CQM
    Apr 2, 2013 at 3:34
  • An electrum wallet is a series of addresses based on a seed: electrum.org/seed.html Use your bitcoin-qt client to pay yourself at one of the addresses that you get from Electrum.
    – Eyal
    Apr 2, 2013 at 7:57
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MultiBit is available for OSX. https://multibit.org

This only uses the block headers (included in the download - about 20 MB). There is a version in test that replaces this with a checkpoints file which is only 12 kilobytes.

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