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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: Tirapon on August 10, 2013, 11:46:15 PM



Title: Increase keypool size
Post by: Tirapon on August 10, 2013, 11:46:15 PM
Can someone please explain to me exactly how to increase the size of the keypool in bitcoin-qt? I've tried messing around creating a .conf file but can't get it to work and I've decided it would be a lot quicker to ask somebody who knows how to do it.

Thanks in advance.

[EDIT: in Windows]


Title: Re: Increase keypool size
Post by: n4ru on August 11, 2013, 12:15:19 AM
Can someone please explain to me exactly how to increase the size of the keypool in bitcoin-qt? I've tried messing around creating a .conf file but can't get it to work and I've decided it would be a lot quicker to ask somebody who knows how to do it.

Thanks in advance.

[EDIT: in Windows]
I'm not sure if there's a way to increase an existing wallet's pool size using the default client or if this works in the debug console, but I know you can use the flag -keypool=n via commandline to generate a new wallet with the specified number of keys.


Title: Re: Increase keypool size
Post by: Tirapon on August 11, 2013, 12:27:05 AM
That's fine, I can create a new wallet and import my old keys. I just want to have a larger keypool so that I don't have create new backups very often. How do I run that command in windows?