IOTA - New Wallet 2.5.1 - Script to get your full Balance back
New Wallet
IOTA has just released a new wallet: 2.5.1
Head over to their website to install it to keep up with the latest bug fixes and improvements.
This update does not require you to to a 'transition' to a new seed. However, when opening the new wallet with your regular seed, the balance will show zero. Do not panic, this is normal. You will have to generate a new address and attach it. Repeat if necessary to retrieve your entire balance of IOTAs.
A helpful script
Someone at Reddit.com wrote a small script to automate the generation and attachment of new addresses. Use it if you think you'll need a lot of addresses generated to recover your entire balance.
Video of how it works
See below a video of the script in action:
Helpful links
Website IOTA wallet: https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/releases
Website Reddit script to auto generate and attach addresses: https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/71zzhq/save_your_fingers_a_script_to_autogenerate/
THX!!!
Is it light enough without the JAVA bloatware yet to actually run on my IoT light bulb?
IOTA team provides libraries to use Tangle for many different languages. C is one of them. Anyone can write software that uses IOTA in this language, even a software for mentioned lightbulb. Officially IOTA team works only on libraries and desktop wallet. They should concentrate on developing the currency itself and they do that well. They won't write software for each and every device there is or will be. Others are free to do this free of charge.
Thanks for the info. I was hoping this new wallet might mean that I don't have to install a desktop OS and Java on my light bulbs.
Your light bulbs are probably never meant to do PoW on the IOTA network. The PoW required should come from something else (other users, dedicated chips like perhaps JINN processors). For more about JINN processors, see the relevant paragraph in http://www.tangleblog.com/2017/01/25/the-tech-behind-iota-explained/
With flash channels (those are currently live on IOTA network) there is no need to perform any PoW for such low-end devices as long as they communicate within the same off-tangle channel. It is one of the options to resolve this without any custom chips.