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Title: can you have several wallets Post by: ddd1 on August 09, 2011, 11:11:38 PM is it possible to have more than one wallet?
I'm thinking if you have all eggs in one basket and decide to make a trade so you decrypt the wallet what if you get unlucky and someone puts a rootkit or just somehoew gets acces to the wallet key and takes all the bitcoins? If not possible to have more than one wallet I guess one should sell of regulary the coins mined so to not loose too much incase of a attack? Title: Re: can you have several wallets Post by: NothinG on August 09, 2011, 11:24:21 PM https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36041.msg444566#msg444566
I only have two wallets. Working on getting a site working so I can have an online wallet to make payments over my phone. I'm thinking about buying a USB JUST for a bitcoin wallet. Then it will be like: Windows 7 - No more than 10BTC. Used for forum transactions. Linux (cold-storage) - No more than 100BTC, used for supplying my Windows 7 daily wallet. Linux/USB (ICE-Random) - Anything than would get a monthly/daily payment. Linux/USB (ICE-Frozen) - Majority of my BTC. Will take 100BTC each time from Cold-Storage to be moved here. May seem like a lot, but it's to keep me safe. ;D Title: Re: can you have several wallets Post by: RodeoX on August 09, 2011, 11:58:48 PM You can have as many as you like. Just don't confused and overwrite one with another.
To create a new wallet just remove your wallet.dat file from it's folder and start the bitcoin client. It will then create a new wallet in the default location. You can find it as a hidden folder in your home folder under Linux ( /.bitcoin). In windows type %appdata% to find the folder. Title: Re: can you have several wallets Post by: leeloulee on August 10, 2011, 12:07:44 AM si
Title: Re: can you have several wallets Post by: leeloulee on August 10, 2011, 12:48:09 AM make sure to keep a backup of your main wallet on a different device,incase of failure
Title: Re: can you have several wallets Post by: silverchair on August 10, 2011, 02:18:14 AM Sure you can :)
Title: Re: can you have several wallets Post by: silverchair on August 11, 2011, 01:47:54 AM As many as you want :D
Title: Re: can you have several wallets Post by: chester22 on August 11, 2011, 01:49:39 AM yup
Title: Re: can you have several wallets Post by: ddd1 on August 12, 2011, 12:58:03 PM so in that case make a encrypted file and put wallet there.
make 10 encrypted files on a USB stick and having a backup of these 10 files on anothers USB stick. Have 10coins in each, so the maximum you can loose is 10coins instead of 100. Can you backup a encrypted file or do you need to decrypt it first? |