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Re: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - Working Beta - Currency has been released
by
Taek
on 29/03/2016, 01:10:31 UTC

I think the 'Sia Wallet Encrypted Backup Seed' appears when you make a new wallet so you can copy down the seed.  Because when the wallet first opens you don't know what seed is being used for your list of addresses.  Once I make a new wallet though do all my addresses come from that seed that I was able to copy down?

If I import the siakey into my wallet are my siafunds wiped from my siakey and imported into the seed addresses? I'm worried if that's so, I won't always have my siakey to back up and if something happened with my wallet that my siafunds would be forever lost.

Thanks for the help!

Yeah, once you make a seed, all of your new addresses come from that seed. You may still have old money in the old addresses though, so you'll need to keep all of your seeds unless you send all of your money to yourself. After you import the siakey, you'll only lose the siafunds from the siakey if you move them around or claim siacoins out of them. If you are using your siafunds, they will eventually be transferred to the seed that the wallet is using.

Sorry for the poor UX in the wallet, we're going to be actively working on it at some point in the near future, but have our hands full with the host and the renter, and with improving test coverage across the project. Thanks for being patient.