wallet software that doesn't require downloading the entire blockchain

2

I find 99.999% of the blockchain irrelevant and a wasteful use of storage space in my personal computers. I just need it to sync my wallets.

on OSX what are bitcoin softwares that do not require downloading the entire blockchain? How can I find the wallet of my currently installed software (Bitcoin-Qt) and move it

CQM

Posted 2013-04-02T03:28:48.843

Reputation: 1 472

Answers

2

Electrum wallet. Works like a charm on my mac.

Thom

Posted 2013-04-02T03:28:48.843

Reputation: 23

thanks I had downloaded that but wasn't sure what I was looking at, how do I move an existing wallet to it? – CQM – 2013-04-02T03:34:56.270

An electrum wallet is a series of addresses based on a seed: http://electrum.org/seed.html Use your bitcoin-qt client to pay yourself at one of the addresses that you get from Electrum.

– Eyal – 2013-04-02T07:57:11.733

2

MultiBit is available for OSX. https://multibit.org

This only uses the block headers (included in the download - about 20 MB). There is a version in test that replaces this with a checkpoints file which is only 12 kilobytes.

jim618

Posted 2013-04-02T03:28:48.843

Reputation: 3 205

Asked: 2013-04-02T03:28:48.843

Viewed: 1 580 times

Active: 2013-04-02T20:04:29.033