Questions tagged [watch-only]
refers to observing the balance of addresses only by address not by public key.
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Watch only Bitcoin address in Sparrow
The task seems easy, yet it’s very hard to complete. I want to watch a Bitcoin address in Sparrow. It’s a multisig address starting with 3*. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:
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I imported my wallet, but cannot sign. What does that mean? [duplicate]
I have a bitcoin wallet. It has hundreds of unknown transactions. I imported it into Electrum. I can freeze and unfreeze the wallet. I can receive, I can partially send. I cannot sign however. Any ...
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Preventing excessive rescans on startup
I upgraded my node at coinos.io from bitcoin 25.0 to 28.0 the other day and got hit by a bunch of somewhat lengthy rescans that caused me about 30 minutes of downtime.
I have close to 200 watch-only ...
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How can I import a multisig address to my wallet?
I'm stuck on this problem since yesterday and I don't get how to fix it. How do I import a multisig address to my bitcoin-cli wallet?
I am currently doing this:
public function generateMultisigWallet($...
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How to monitor the value of a hardware wallet
Suppose I have a hardware wallet with 1 BTC. Every time I connect that wallet, I can see I have 1 BTC and it has the value of 50.000 EUR.
In this case it is easy to monitor the value, as it is exactly ...
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Properly Import P2WSH Descriptors into a Watch-Only Wallet to Reflect All Balances and Transactions
I'm trying to import a Pay-to-Witness-Script-Hash (P2WSH) descriptor into my Bitcoin Core watch-only wallet using the importdescriptors command. My goal is to ensure that the wallet reflects all ...
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where did my previous block of receiving addresses in my electrum wallet go?
So I have an airgapped (using tails os on an old laptop) electrum (cold storage) wallet that I previously added additional receiving addresses by increasing the gap limit: wallet.change_gap_limit(110)....
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How can I tell if an address belongs to my cold storage wallet?
When I created an Electrum cold storage wallet, I started out with 20 receiving addresses. I quickly burned thru using those, sending BTC to my wallet while wanting to only use any given address once.
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How to turn a just watch electrum wallet to HD
Hello everyone I have an electrum wallet and it's in just watch mode and I'd like to change it to an HD wallet in electrum. How to go about it if it's possible?
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Dump wallet with only watch-only addresses
I have two wallets on a bitcoind node that consist entirely of watch-only addresses I have added with importaddress over time. I now want to merge these two wallets into one.
My initial thought was to ...
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Importdescriptors not working (JSON parsing error)
I have been trying to setup a watch-only wallet on Bitcoin Core using the importdescriptors command. To put this into context, I'm trying to use the watch-only wallet on my online machine to create ...
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Address watcher with BDK/Rust
I'm trying to implement (multiple) address watcher in BDK/Rust.
I'm having trouble doing this for an arbitrary address, because BDK and rust-miniscript don't support "addr()" expressions in ...
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Can i buy a private key and add it to my watch-only wallet [duplicate]
I have a watch only wallet i was given the address for can i buy a private key and add it to the watch only wallet
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Setting up to create PSBTs using Bitcoin Core from 10 year old non-deterministic wallet
I have an old wallet from 10+ years ago. It was created using an old version of Bitcoin Core before deterministic wallets were a thing. I have it now on an offline computer that has Bitcoin Core 21.0....
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I was asked to download trust wallet and was than sent around $5000 in watch only. Than was told to ask to access Bitcoin on my cash app. Is it real?
I was asked to download trust wallet and was than sent around $5000 in watch only. I than was told to ask to access Bitcoin on my cash app. They said to access Bitcoin and than send a screenshot after ...
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Is this a scam or is it legit? [duplicate]
So this guy sent me a watch-only wallet address. I open it up and there's some decent crypto in there. However, he said I have to go to a bitcoin atm and "pay the fees to access the coins"
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I have been asked to download Trust wallet, and was sent funds from watch only address. Sender is asking me to deposit $200 from cash app to get 5k
Someone asked me to open a watchwallet. Sent me over 2k “on watch” asking me to send them $200 to their cash app in order to get my $200 back, keep all the money in my watch wallet, and another 5k. ...
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How to use a watch-only wallet in Bitcoin Core?
I'm using Bitcoin Core v23.0.
It seems to support watch-only wallets by setting disable_private_keys=true during wallet creation.
$ bitcoin-cli -regtest createwallet "test" true
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Trust Wallet Watch Only Wallet
I have been doing bitcoin trading using a trader and they have sent me my profits to my Trust Wallet. But when I try to send the cryptocurrencies that I have received from my wallet it says it is ...
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Does `listsinceblock` show coinbase transactions on a watch-only address?
If I have a wallet where I've imported someone's address "A" as a watch-only address, and I run listsinceblock (the specific parameters may be irrelevant to this question), would I be able ...
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Create a watch only wallet descriptor with bitcoin core
Trying to create a watch only wallet descriptor in bitcoin core client.
bitcoin-cli -named createwallet wallet_name=mywallet descriptors=true
This just returns an error: method not found. Furthermore ...
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What is the difference between signrawtransactionwithwallet vs signrawtransactionwithkey in signing unsigned raw transaction?
I have a bitcoin address generated in bitcoin-core (offline computer)
I imported that one address into electrum as a watch-only wallet (online computer)
From electrum I created an unsigned transaction ...
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Is it ok and safe to import master public key from electrum wallet into bluewallet to be a watch-only wallet?
I want to use my iPhone (Blue wallet) to be the watch-only wallet for my offline wallet generated on electrum. So that I can generate unsigned transaction on the bluewallet and send it back to my ...
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Bitcoin core -trying to open my watch adress with private key- unsolvable
First of all, please bare with my ignorance. When i bought btc 5 years ago i did not know more than i know today, which is very very little.
However, after retrieving my private key for an crashed hdd,...
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How does a full-node index watch-only addresses?
I can import watch-only addresses into my full-node's wallet. I can start querying their utxos from that point onward.
Where are watch-only addresses stored and how does my node keep index of their ...
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Isn't an encrypted wallet.dat automatically a "watch-only" wallet?
I have encrypted my wallet.dat outside of this computer. Now I store my wallet.dat on this computer.
If I open it in Bitcoin Core, I can view the balance but not spend it (without entering the ...
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I accidentally sent BTC to Bitcoin Core watch-only wallet with private keys disabled
I think I already know the answer to this, but I just want to know for sure whether my funds are lost. I have Specter desktop connected to my Bitcoin Core. But because I also sometimes use the Core ...
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Create unsigned tx (PSBT) in a watch-only wallet using bitcoin core, sign it in electrum and broadcast using bitcoin core
What are the steps that we can follow to create an unsigned tx for watch-only cold storage address using bitcoin core? How can we sign the transaction and broadcast it later?
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How to create unsigned tx in a watch-only wallet?
UPDATE: The issue is resolved and I have mentioned the steps in Create unsigned tx (PSBT) in a watch-only wallet using bitcoin core, sign it in electrum and broadcast using bitcoin core
Below are the ...
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How to create watch-only wallet on a server with a full node?
Given: there're online shops and a server with a full BTC node that I plan to run. I'll be using a full node to monitor incomming transcations thus receiving payments in an automatic manner. Only. ...
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Why Bitcoin Core does not support importing extended public keys directly?
I'm trying to create a watch-only wallet importing the extended public key from a Ledger Nano (as an example) but is not to easy to do directly to my Node, I should do it through electrum personal ...
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Import bitcoin address only with public key [closed]
I want to import a none spendable paper wallet. This was possible in the past. But now I am only allowed to import an adress with the private key. So this address won´t be none spendable. Was there an ...
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Can't spend Watch-Only coins, have I been scammed?
Inspired by Murch's format of Why is there no such thing as a redirected, forged, or fake transaction? to create one question that is well-worded and accessible through search engines.
Recently, I've ...
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How can I execute `getnewaddress` at my full node from a remote server?
I have a full node running on a digital ocean droplet. I have an app running at heroku, and I want to execute getnewaddress from this app. I'm trying to generate BTC addresses to which users can send ...
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Suggestion for Airgap Bitcoin Core - Comments?
Lesson learned the hard way: I lost a small value of bitcoins due to foolishly backing up private keys to a file which was uploaded to a cloud server. My wallet used to be bitcoin core.
Right now my ...
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bech32 address not showing in watch-only wallet (using HWI descriptors)
First of all thanks for all the awesome tools. Especially Andrew Chow and Sjoors Provoost, for my use case.
Now, I´m a little confused. A transaction I sent from a mobile wallet to a watch only wallet ...
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Errors with `walletcreatefundedpsbt` & non-solvable UTXOs
I'm attempting to use walletcreatefundedpsbt with a watch-only wallet.
With 2.0 BTC in the watch-only wallet, I attempt to create a psbt sending 0.2 BTC without specifying inputs and receive an "...
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How can I turn off sending of bitcoins?
I use Bitcoin Core v.0.17 on the server. I want to only be able to receive, and prevent sending. How can I turn off sending of bitcoins through bitcoind, bitcoin-cli or bitcoin.conf?
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How does Sentinel check Blockchain?
I've been very happy to hodl my Bitcoin on a paper wallet (coinglacier.org) and using Sentinel to view the balance of my addresses (using extended public key).
Sentinel is an awesome app, it provides ...
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Spending BTC from an Electrum watch-only paper wallet?
I've an old BIP-38 paper wallet, and I imported that address into an Electrum (version 3.3.6) watch-only wallet.
I now want to transfer that BTC to an Exchange. I have the relevant password for the ...
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Private Key in HD Account Bither Watch Only
I have a watch only HD account in Bither and I've got a password of the wallet but I don't have a private Key. I need to send BTC received in that account to another address in another account
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Watch Only Wallets
I don't understand the point of a Watch Only Wallet. I've seen posts that state these wallets don’t contain any private keys, which means they can’t be used to spend coins they receive. In which case ...
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Bitcoin Core 17.0 - How to calculate balance with zero confirmations included (watch-only)?
Is it currently possible to calculate balance including UTXOs with 0 confirmations, for watch-only addresses?
getbalance "*" 0 true
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How can i check bulk BTC address balance?
I'll appreciate some suggestions for online resources or software that can be used to check/monitor a few thousands of BTC address. Thanks
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Bitcoin Address Received/Balance values differ from one explorer to another
Recently I've been looking into experimenting with querying the blockchain. I am running bitcoin-core, full node locally and updated.
I am mainly interested in querying watch-only addresses, each ...
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Watch only address not update balance
After adding watch only address to my bitcoin core and perform some transaction that make my watch only address balance to 0, but when i run getbalance and listaccount with watch only is true, my ...
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How to delete wallet without deleting blockchain
I am registering some addresses as watch only addresses and I would like the ability to reset my wallet without having to sync again. Can I just delete my wallet.dat?
I use Bitcoin Core version 16.1.
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Watch only Wallet help
i need help. I'm totally New with bitcoin. Last time i would buy something and when i pay i've got an sms-code for bitcoins with that i've to make the pay. I send this to a watch only Wallet. But that ...
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Reg: Watch only Address
I have been given " Watch only Address" by one of my friends.
To make the funds credited into my account or to use the BTC, what is way to get the private key?
Do we need to pay anything to ...
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How can I sign message for a blockchain watch only bitcoin address
I have to verify sign message for one of my blockchain bitcoin address. I couldn't find sign message or private key option in More Options beside all my bitcoin addresses. I thought maybe I have to ...
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