Feature-Request: Add a way to direct send BC from private keys
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Description
When using standard wallet, it is only possible to sweep private keys, not import them. But sweeping costs BC.
When getting bitcoins via paper wallet, it would be nice to direct use the private key to send BC (maybe with BC from addresses in standard wallet). But it is not possible to import private keys in such a type of wallet.
This would have several advantages:
- The rest could go to a change address
- One saves the additional cost
- Combined pays with already in store BC
The address/private key must be stored just until it is empty.
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Research direction
Start by tracing the standard wallet's existing private-key sweep flow and how transactions combine wallet funds with swept funds. Define how a private key is held only until its balance is spent, how change is handled, and how the existing cost of sweeping is avoided. Done means a paper-wallet key can send directly with optional standard-wallet funds while preserving the remaining balance as change.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- blockchain, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100