# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-12-14 21:14:02
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54603.msg650479#msg650479

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 @p{brk}
The current import patch needs work to be of practical use to web services@p{--} it does a scan of the entire blockchain to find transactions to the newly imported key (and keeps the wallet locked that entire time).  For any sweep/import solution to be useful for more than once-in-a-blue-moon use, an index of pubkeys to transactions involving those keys should be kept. @p{par}

It seems to me the "sweep now, and re-sweep every once-in-a-while" functionality would work nicely for web services. Can you describe a use case that wouldn't work?