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New Wallet Option - Has Existing Transactions checkbox #1543

Closed sgulley2 closed 4 days ago

sgulley2 commented 6 days ago

In the latest version of Sparrow 2.0.0, when selecting the New Wallet Option, the Has Existing Transactions checkbox is missing in the Mac M1/M2 version - It is present in the Intel version however

craigraw commented 4 days ago

The existing transactions checkbox is only present when connected to Bitcoin Core (green toggle) since it is only required in that case. Can you verify?

sgulley2 commented 4 days ago

Yes that would be correct - out of curiosity why is this so ?

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The existing transactions checkbox is only present when connected to Bitcoin Core (green toggle) since it is only required in that case. Can you verify?

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craigraw commented 4 days ago

Bitcoin Core needs to scan the blockchain for transactions belonging to a particular wallet to build an index of them. This process takes time, so you generally don't want to start at genesis, as it will take much longer. So, the existing transactions checkbox allows you to specify a wallet birthdate to speed things up. With Electrum servers, you already have a complete index of all transactions, so a wallet birthdate is unnecessary.

sgulley2 commented 4 days ago

Thx - makes sense

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-------- Original message -------- From: craigraw @.> Date: 11/25/24 1:03 AM (GMT-05:00) To: sparrowwallet/sparrow @.> Cc: Stuart Gulley @.>, Author @.> Subject: Re: [sparrowwallet/sparrow] New Wallet Option - Has Existing Transactions checkbox (Issue #1543)

Bitcoin Core needs to scan the blockchain for transactions belonging to a particular wallet to build an index of them. This process takes time, so you generally don't want to start at genesis, as it will take much longer. So, the existing transactions checkbox allows you to specify a wallet birthdate to speed things up. With Electrum servers, you already have a complete index of all transactions, so a wallet birthdate is unnecessary.

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