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Re: To receive bitcoins, you must be connected to the Internet ????
by
apogio
on 08/05/2023, 15:28:35 UTC
⭐ Merited by odolvlobo (1)

This is amazing. But as far as I am trying to understand the balance is not updated unless and until it is connected to the internet right? Basically, if I am not looking at my wallet and only scanning my address over the blockchain then I can see the updated balance.

Which is a similar thing I am doing with Mycelium.

For example, the smartphone on which I have Mycelium installed is always turned off for safety reasons. I keep getting payment on that address, which is obviously getting synched in the background (without internet obviously).

Then this makes no difference to any wallets I believe.

I thought we already invented a technology that can work without the internet. I was shocked for a second after reading all the replies. It seems it's just usual thing, you synch up when you are online. Thats all.

Well in fact we oversimplified the response, but yes.

Essentially what you do is cool, but if you keep sending funds to the same address is not good for privacy reasons.

Also, actually there is no "balance". There are unspent UTXOs but that's more advanced. And yes, of course we can say "balance" and understand each other