Thanks again for the replies.
Ledger Nano arrived today but will tackle that tomorrow. Not wise to try it while tired and slightly drunk
My plan is to move everything from old wallet in offline Bitcoin Core to Ledger, then once all that's confirmed on the blockchain I guess the old wallet becomes redundant?
getwalletinfo for my old wallet returns: walletversion=10500, format=bdb, txcount=6, keypoolsize=1000
I was not aware of the change address mechanism, so please help me clarify:
- small (test amounts) outgoing transactions from my old wallet will use a change address from my keypool
- Bitcoin Core is offline so won't know about change returned
- I presume that once I sort my Ledger Wallet, the blockchain will link all change transactions to it?
I will make multiple backups as I go, but I suppose my anxiety is that because my old wallet is offline and I am try to move all to Ledger, that my change will disappear into the aether (as I don't fully understand change address mechanisms)...
Ledger Nano arrived today but will tackle that tomorrow. Not wise to try it while tired and slightly drunk
My plan is to move everything from old wallet in offline Bitcoin Core to Ledger, then once all that's confirmed on the blockchain I guess the old wallet becomes redundant?
getwalletinfo for my old wallet returns: walletversion=10500, format=bdb, txcount=6, keypoolsize=1000
I was not aware of the change address mechanism, so please help me clarify:
- small (test amounts) outgoing transactions from my old wallet will use a change address from my keypool
- Bitcoin Core is offline so won't know about change returned
- I presume that once I sort my Ledger Wallet, the blockchain will link all change transactions to it?
I will make multiple backups as I go, but I suppose my anxiety is that because my old wallet is offline and I am try to move all to Ledger, that my change will disappear into the aether (as I don't fully understand change address mechanisms)...