A Little Help Understanding Bitcoin

[Qubes]

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 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.

[donoban]

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>

[Qubes]

>> 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?
>>
>

> In your watching-only electrum you should see it green. You probably
> have some configuration error. Does firefox work fine on this VM?
>

I just changed the template my Electrum qube is based on from a
fedora-31-minimal template to a fedora-31 template and my watching only
wallets' network status has now turned green and I can see my transactions.

>>
>> 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>
>

Would anybody have an idea what a minimal template might be missing in
this particular usecase?