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Re: Problems importing private key from paper wallet to bitcoin-qt
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kbdwarrior
on 25/09/2017, 15:03:38 UTC
More questions to this:

2. Before funding a paper wallet, import the address (not the private key!) into Bitcoin Core:
    importaddress 1addy PaperWallet1addy false
    The "false" prevents a rescan. If you fund the paper wallet after this, it shows up as Watch-only and the balance is nicely updated. Since Bitcoin Core now knows your balance, you can later import the private key without a rescan.

You emphasize the before, importing an address cannot be done after funding the paper wallet?

And if I hold private keys with some UTXOs at the corresponding address in the bitcoin-qt wallet and one or several watch-only addresses as well and this is all intermingled together to a single balance, how can I differentiate what values are spendable from the bitcoin-qt wallet and what belongs to the paper wallets?

Thx!