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Re: Importing an old v0.3.0 wallet.dat - is my plan sound?
by
ChapInRed
on 22/05/2023, 00:03:40 UTC
Hello, thanks for your replies once again.

I will keep making multiple dated wallet backups for disaster and tax/bank query purposes!

Ledger device received and set up. Recovery words secured on paper (though I may get a metal backup version).

Tor Browser set up as it looks like copying the raw transactions from my offline Bitcoin Core and broadcasting would be simple and secure enough.

I see Blockchair have an onion address for this (taken from the footer of their site): http://blkchairbknpn73cfjhevhla7rkp4ed5gg2knctvv7it4lioy22defid.onion/broadcast

I checked the getwalletinfo again, it's definitely my imported wallet that has keypool=1000, the empty wallet I created has keypool=0

So I now have to sleep then work, but next I plan to send say 10 mBTC to my Ledger wallet this way to test things out.

When I get to transferring the rest to Ledger, is there any point in keeping some BTC in my imported Bitcoin Core?

Thanks for reading, and for your patience. I don't want to mess anything up by not having a good enough grasp on things.