On 2020-07-17 14:02, Qubes wrote: > I created a offline and watching only (Electrum) bitcoin wallet as > describes in the Qubes docs, > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/split-bitcoin/, but I wanted to find out of > I did something wrong or if what I am seeing is in fact correct. > > If I look at my watching only wallet at the bottom right of the Electrum > window there is a red icon indicating network status. I expected this > icon to be green since this wallet is supposed to be watching, no? > > The watching only wallet uses sys-whonix as its netVM.
In your watching-only electrum you should see it green. You probably have some configuration error. Does firefox work fine on this VM? > > In additiona, if someone could confirm to me that what I am doing is > correct. I created a new transaction on the receiving tab of the > watching only wallet and then used the QR code generated by this to > receive bitcoin, but I have not received anything. Am I just impatient > or was I not supposed to do this in my watching only wallet? Not sure if > this is related to my above question of the network status not being green. > > I am a complete Bitcoin noob. Any help with this will be very much > appreciated. > Yes, if your electrum can't connect it won't show your balance. If you know what address did you sent, try some block explorer: - https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/<address> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/7fc46704-abfa-1ec0-7805-084c2acd6cb5%40riseup.net.
