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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: justanotherrandomuser on August 27, 2012, 09:04 am
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I found this to be useful, others may as well.
I recently found it difficult to remove some bitcoin addresses from my wallet, this appears to be by design, here is how you easily remove them.
(Note, this won't remove anything from the public transaction log, this will simply remove the address from your wallet to prevent against forensic analysis.)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0
./pywallet.py --web
connect to your localhost via web browser http://127.0.0.1:8989
dump your wallet
Search for the name of the address (I always give it easy to find names like "One time use only!" or "Please Delete"
Anyway, grab the key, go to the bottom of the page, delete the key. This will remove it from your wallet.
I almost didn't write this because I realized that instawallet is a better choice for one time use, but you never know, hopefully someone else will either find this useful or perhaps provide an easier way of doing so.
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Fine post, PyWallet is great for many things!