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Title: Migrate your wallet to another client Post by: Jeromic on October 06, 2012, 11:21:12 AM I've been using Bitcoin-Qt and I'd like to try other clients like MultiBit or Armory.
Is it possible to somehow import your wallet.dat created by Bitcoin-Qt in those clients? Or do I need to create new wallets? Title: Re: Migrate your wallet to another client Post by: ffcitatos on October 06, 2012, 11:52:05 AM When it comes, to MultiBit, just look here http://multibit.org/help_importingPrivateKeys.html (http://multibit.org/help_importingPrivateKeys.html), it tells you how to do it.
Title: Re: Migrate your wallet to another client Post by: CIYAM on October 06, 2012, 11:53:46 AM I think the simplest way at the moment would be to keep your bitcoin-qt installed after you install your new client then create a new wallet with the new client and send all your BTC (perhaps requiring a tx fee which really will be most likely negligible) to the new address in the new client.
(although I haven't read the above poster's link) Edit: Now that I have looked at the link I don't think you want to do this as you could easily miss your change addresses (which are not so easy to find with the Satoshi client). Title: Re: Migrate your wallet to another client Post by: BobbyJo on October 06, 2012, 05:37:22 PM Armory needs QT to run anyway. It would be easiest to load armory, transfer a few BTC and play with the functionality. If you want to continue using it, transfer the rest. I dont have any experience with other clients but make sure that it has wallet encryption (not all do).
Title: Re: Migrate your wallet to another client Post by: CIYAM on October 07, 2012, 03:04:23 AM I think the simplest way at the moment would be to keep your bitcoin-qt installed after you install your new client then create a new wallet with the new client and send all your BTC (perhaps requiring a tx fee which really will be most likely negligible) to the new address in the new client. Oops - I should probably have said "send several tx's" with the old funds (the first being just a test one to make sure the new software and wallet is working). A side benefit from sending the old coins to multiple new addresses is that future tx's will have a better chance of avoiding tx fees due to "coin age". Title: Re: Migrate your wallet to another client Post by: Amitabh S on November 11, 2012, 04:35:48 PM When it comes, to MultiBit, just look here http://multibit.org/help_importingPrivateKeys.html (http://multibit.org/help_importingPrivateKeys.html), it tells you how to do it. That link does not really tell you how to do it the way the OP asked. It only allows reimporing a previously exported key from Multibit. Either that, or I missed out something. Please clarify. Title: Re: Migrate your wallet to another client Post by: poon-TANG on November 11, 2012, 05:15:37 PM When it comes, to MultiBit, just look here http://multibit.org/help_importingPrivateKeys.html (http://multibit.org/help_importingPrivateKeys.html), it tells you how to do it. +1 |