Timeline for Can I retroactively add the spendkey to a watch only wallet?
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| Mar 22, 2017 at 21:59 | comment | added | tficharmers | Ah, thanks for the correction and useful info. Well...seems like it could still be a handy feature. | |
| Mar 22, 2017 at 16:56 | comment | added | JollyMort | That's one and the same thing. The full wallet would take the list of inputs already made by the watch wallet and check each for spent status. It wouldn't have to rescan as all have already been "found" with the viewkey. What's missing is to make a key image for each one and perform a simple look-up to check for spent status. So, you would actually save time if conversion was possible. | |
| Mar 22, 2017 at 11:54 | comment | added | tficharmers | Also, considering the watch-only wallet only has a record of inputs, the blockchain would have to be synced anyway to find the outputs, thereby negating any time-saving by having the inputs already synced. | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 0:22 | vote | accept | tficharmers | ||
| Nov 26, 2016 at 20:26 | history | answered | JollyMort | CC BY-SA 3.0 |