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+---
+# simplewallet
+
+simplewallet is the wallet software that ships with the monero tree. It is a console program,
+and manages an account (while a bitcoin wallet manages both an account and the blockchain,
+Monero separates these: bitmonerod handles the blockchain, and simplewallet handles the account).
+
+This guide assumes you already have created an account, according to the other guides, and
+will show how to perform various operations from the simplewallet UI.
+
+
+## Checking your balance
+
+Since the blockchain handling and the wallet are separate programs, many uses of simplewallet
+need to work with the daemon. This includes looking for incoming transactions to your address.
+Once you are running both simplewallet and bitmonerod, refresh the wallet's idea of the blockchain:
+
+  refresh
+
+This will pull blocks from the daemon the wallet did not yet see, and update your balance
+to match. To see the balance without refreshing:
+
+  balance
+
+
+## Sending monero
+
+You will need the standard address you want to send to (a long string starting with '4'), and
+possibly a payment ID, if the receiving party requires one. In that latter case, that party
+may instead give you an integrated address, which is both of these packed into a single address
+(integrated address do not start with 4, but A).
+
+This is the command to use when you are sending to a standard address:
+
+  transfer 3 ADDRESS AMOUNT PAYMENTID
+
+Replace ADDRESS with the address you wnt to sent to, AMOUNT with how many monero you want to send.
+and PAYMENTID with the payment ID you were given. If the receiving party doesn't need one, just
+omit it.
+
+If you have an integrated address to send to:
+
+  transfer 3 ADDRESS AMOUNT
+
+The payment ID is implicit in the integrated address in that case.
+
+The 3 above is the mixin. It's a good idea to leave it to 3, but you can increase the number if
+you want to mix with more outputs. The higher the mixin, the larger the transaction, and the
+higher fees needed.
+
+
+## Receiving monero
+
+If you have your own Monero address, you just need to give your standard address to someone.
+Since Monero is anonymous, you won't see what address sent anything you receive. If you want to
+know, you'll have to tell the sender to use a payment ID, which is an arbitrary optional tag which
+gets attached to a transaction. To make life easier, you can generate an address that already
+includes a random payment ID:
+
+  integrated_address
+
+This will generate a random payment ID, and give you the address that includes your own account
+and that payment ID. If you want to select your own payment ID, you can do that too:
+
+  integrated_address 12346780abcdef00
+
+
+## Proving to a third party you paid someone
+
+If you pay a merchant, and the merchant claims to not have received the funds, you may need
+to prove to a third party you did send the funds - or even to the merchant, if it is a honest
+mistake. Monero is private, so you can't just point to your transaction in the blockchain,
+as you can't tell who sent it, and who received it. However, by supplying the per-transaction
+private key to a party, that party can tell whether that transaction sent monero to that
+particular address. Note that storing these per-transaction keys is disabled by default, and
+you will have to enable it before sending, if you think you may need it:
+
+  set store-tx-keys 1
+
+From now on, tx keys will be saved, and you can retrieve them later for a given transaction:
+
+  get_tx_key 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012
+
+Pass in the transaction ID you want the key for. Remember that a payment might have been
+split in more than one transaction, so you may need several keys. You can then send that key,
+or these keys, to whoever you want to provide proof of your transaction, along with the
+transaction id and the address you sent to. Note that this third party, if knowing your
+own address, will be able to see how much change was returned to you as well.
+
+If you are the third party (that is, someone wants to prove to you that they sent monero
+to an address), then you can check this way:
+
+  check_tx_key TXID TXKEY ADDRESS
+
+Replace TXID, TXKEY and ADDRESS with the transaction ID, per-transaction key, and destination
+address which were supplied to you, respectively. simplewallet will check that transaction
+and let you know how much monero this transaction paid to the given address.
+
+
+## Getting a chance to confirm/cancel payments
+
+If you want to get a last chance confirmation when sending a payment:
+
+  set always-confirm-transfers 1
+
+
+## How to find a payment to you
+
+If you received a payment using a particular payment ID, you can look it up:
+
+  payments PAYMENTID
+
+You can give more than one payment ID too.
+