user58920: I made a transaction into my armory wallet but I didnt downloaded blockchain before. What happened to my bitcoin?
Can I access my bitcoins when ill be able to get the wallet online?

user-1: A wallet stores private keys, not bitcoins (and a watching-only wallet just stores addresses, without their private keys). Your bitcoins are “stored”, for want of a better word, on the global distributed ledger. You can verify this by looking up your address/addresses (not your private keys!!!) on a blockexplorer web site such as blockchain.info — this will show you that your bitcoins are at whatever address/addresses you sent them to. You can do this even if Armory hasn't downloaded the blockchain.
In order to construct a transaction, Armory needs a local copy of the blockchain and it needs the [public] address/addresses from which you're spending. But the transaction will not be valid until you have signed it, and for that, you need the private keys. In a secure set-up (cold storage), you construct transactions in a watching-only wallet (connected to the internet), and you sign them in a full wallet (on an air-gapped computer); such that your private keys are never exposed to the internet.

58920: <p>I made a transaction into my armory wallet but I didnt downloaded blockchain before. What happened to my bitcoin?
Can I access my bitcoins when ill be able to get the wallet online?</p>
 -1: <p>A wallet stores private keys, not bitcoins (and a watching-only wallet just stores addresses, <em>without</em> their private keys). Your bitcoins are “stored”, for want of a better word, on the global distributed ledger. You can verify this by looking up your address/addresses (<strong>not</strong> your private keys!!!) on a blockexplorer web site such as blockchain.info — this will show you that your bitcoins are at whatever address/addresses you sent them to. You can do this even if Armory hasn't downloaded the blockchain.</p>

<p>In order to <em>construct a transaction</em>, Armory needs a local copy of the blockchain and it needs the [public] address/addresses from which you're spending. But the transaction will not be valid until you have <em>signed</em> it, and for that, you need the private keys. In a secure set-up (cold storage), you construct transactions in a watching-only wallet (connected to the internet), and you sign them in a full wallet (on an air-gapped computer); such that your private keys are never exposed to the internet.</p>
