# Gavin Andresen
# 2013-09-18 08:20:32
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178011.msg3179711#msg3179711

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 @p{brk}
"Patches welcome." @p{par}

A watch-only wallet that has a bunch of public keys (and multisig groups of public keys) is a good idea. But first you'd need multi-wallet support. @p{par}

There is a pull request that adds watch-only addresses, but I think that is the wrong way to go. Mixing up fund that can be spent with funds that cannot be spent (e.g. because they're a multisig escrow you want to watch) is a bad idea, and as soon as we have hierarchical deterministic wallets we'll want watch-only wallets that are derived from a master key (or a set of master keys in the case of multisig) where the local bitcoind doesn't have the private seed for the key. @p{brk}