wootwoot (OP)
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April 11, 2011, 10:25:01 PM |
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I have a new computer and I'm trying to figure out how to move my bitcoin wallet over to this new machine. How can I accomplish this?
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There are several different types of Bitcoin clients. The most secure are full nodes like Bitcoin Core, which will follow the rules of the network no matter what miners do. Even if every miner decided to create 1000 bitcoins per block, full nodes would stick to the rules and reject those blocks.
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PLATO
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Don't trust "BBOD The Best Futures Exchange"
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April 12, 2011, 02:57:00 AM |
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For anyone googling this in the future - note that the -rescan switch was added in the 3.20 client, I ran into problems when I was working with two wallets because I was using the 3.19 client and trying to use -rescan.
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All posts by me after 2012 were a compromised account. Probably by "BBOD The Best Futures Exchange". SORRY Y'ALL
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Pieter Wuille
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April 12, 2011, 06:23:27 PM |
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For older clients you need to delete blk0001.dat and blkindex.dat, and let it redownload the block chain...
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I do Bitcoin stuff.
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byronbb
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HODL OR DIE
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April 13, 2011, 12:25:05 AM |
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Do people ever transfer BTC by just mailing someone a wallet.dat?
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Stephen Gornick
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April 13, 2011, 09:51:45 PM |
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Do people ever transfer BTC by just mailing someone a wallet.dat?
You'ld want to encrypt it first -- using TrueCrypt, for example, and then send only the encrypted archive: http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_your_wallet |
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November 23, 2013, 03:36:32 AM |
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Is it true, that nowadays (after version 0.3.2), you can just copy the wallet to the new location - without --reindex or deleting the bulk datas?
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deepceleron
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November 23, 2013, 03:42:22 AM |
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You'll want to just copy the whole Bitcoin data directory with the wallet.dat and subdirectories, so you don't have to download the blockchain again.
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November 23, 2013, 09:12:17 AM |
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And what should I do if i have a webserver and want to keep the offline time low? I cant wait until some GB are transferred between the server.. Or is there no other stable possibility?
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deepceleron
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November 23, 2013, 09:18:03 AM |
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Just closing bitcoin, copying the wallet.dat (after moving but not deleting any previous important wallet), and restarting with the bitcoind -rescan option is sufficient to move a wallet to another machine. If you don't already have a blockchain downloaded, it will be a long time before that bitcoin is ready though; copying an existing complete 12GB datadir can save a day of re-downloading and processing the blockchain.
I can't think of many scenarios outside of restoring a backup where you'd put an existing wallet.dat up on a server.
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fr0sties
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November 23, 2013, 09:28:35 AM |
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use online wallet
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Barek
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November 23, 2013, 09:48:01 AM |
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You could also just transfer the coins to a new wallet on the new machine.
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November 23, 2013, 10:29:44 AM |
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Its because of a migration to a bigger server. And I need the wallet because there are multiple "user accounts" inside...
How long does it take to rescan in general?
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deepceleron
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November 23, 2013, 10:33:08 AM |
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About 10 minutes on a normal wallet and PC. Longer for many addresses in the wallet and on a slow CPU. You don't need to rescan as long as there is no chance that wallet received payments while it was "down".
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