From 2914834b620f710b703c90f3877458d0e1c9e349 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: moneromooo-monero Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 11:58:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] simplewallet.md: add a couple more commands, and rewording/typo fix --- knowledge-base/user-guides/simplewallet.md | 50 ++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/knowledge-base/user-guides/simplewallet.md b/knowledge-base/user-guides/simplewallet.md index d0bee8e6..2963a8ca 100644 --- a/knowledge-base/user-guides/simplewallet.md +++ b/knowledge-base/user-guides/simplewallet.md @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ Once you are running both simplewallet and bitmonerod, refresh the wallet's idea 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: +to match. This process will normally be done in the background every minute or so. To see the +balance without refreshing: balance @@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ 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. +Replace ADDRESS with the address you want to send 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. @@ -61,18 +62,25 @@ 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: +You can find out your address with: + + address + +Since Monero is anonymous, you won't see the origin address the funds you receive came from. If you +want to know, for instance to credit a particular customer, 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: +and that payment ID. If you want to select a particular payment ID, you can do that too: integrated_address 12346780abcdef00 +Payments made to an integrated address generated from your account will go to your account, +with that payment id attached, so you can tell payments apart. + ## Proving to a third party you paid someone @@ -81,12 +89,9 @@ to prove to a third party you did send the funds - or even to the merchant, if i 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: +particular address. - set store-tx-keys 1 - -From now on, tx keys will be saved, and you can retrieve them later for a given transaction: +You can retrieve the tx key from an earlier transaction: get_tx_key 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012 @@ -121,3 +126,24 @@ If you received a payment using a particular payment ID, you can look it up: You can give more than one payment ID too. +More generally, you can review incoming and outgoing payments: + + show_transfers + +You can give an optional height to list only recent transactions, and request +only incoming or outgoing transactions. For example, + + show_transfers in 650000 + +will only incoming transfers after block 650000. You can also give a height +range. + +If you want to mine, you can do so from the wallet: + + start_mining 2 + +This will start mining on the daemon usin two threads. Note that this is solo mining, +and may take a while before you find a block. To stop mining: + + stop_mining +