Bitcoin Forum

Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: Andrew Vorobyov on July 29, 2011, 06:37:28 AM



Title: Same wallet on 2 different bitcoind servers
Post by: Andrew Vorobyov on July 29, 2011, 06:37:28 AM
Is it possible?


Title: Re: Same wallet on 2 different bitcoind servers
Post by: talpan on July 29, 2011, 06:43:49 AM
why wouldn't it?


Title: Re: Same wallet on 2 different bitcoind servers
Post by: kjj on July 29, 2011, 06:45:53 AM
Eh, I wouldn't.  Spending will have race conditions at the very least, and possibly worse.  And if you don't need to spend from both, there are better ways to convey balance information around than to calculate it all in both places.


Title: Re: Same wallet on 2 different bitcoind servers
Post by: Stephen Gornick on July 29, 2011, 07:07:53 AM
Is it possible?

It is a bad idea.
 - http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5324.msg77896#msg77896

Are you instead hoping to just access bitcoin from multiple computers?  There are multiple front ends:
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Frontends