[request] allow a wallet recovery while offline.

[brianddk]

When performing an account recovery in v0.4.6, eclair will halt and shutdown if it cannot get online. It would be preferable to allow Eclair to continue to run offline to allow users to verify YPUB keys BTC receive addresses.

I ran into this dilemma when researching issue https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair-mobile/issues/162 referring to the need to validate a seed. It was suggested that the generated YPUB be compared as this would grantee the seeds match. It is preferable to do this offline since doing a recovery online will risk channel closure if recovering to a device authorized to a different google user (and google drive account).

[pm47]

You could have imported your seed in a separate wallet (e.g. electrum) to check the ypub?

[brianddk]

@pm47 good point... wish I would have thought of that. I was a bit curious as to what transition to another device might look like.

I'd still like the ability to recover just to a "pending sync" page or something while offline.