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So you CAN import the public key for an address into a desktop wallet WITHOUT importing the private key?
Ok got it.
This depends on the wallet. They have to be able to "watch" addresses. Afaik bitcoin core does not support this yet. I know armory and blockchain do.
Oh....just curious...what's the difference if you download bitaddress.org from github or if you just navigate to the bitaddress.org webpage in your browser and save the page, then use it offline?
Probably none. But the version on github might be a different version as the one online.