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Title: Question about wallet management Post by: promojo on March 14, 2014, 06:49:45 PM Hello;
I am wondering how I can export the "private key". I thought it was just best practice to: 1) password protect wallet 2) export wallet file and save it offline or cloud storage FINISHED? If someone could add some more value/insight that would be preferred. Thanks Title: Re: Question about wallet management Post by: tkbx on March 14, 2014, 07:03:17 PM If you want to securely store a wallet in an insecure location (such as cloud storage), then yes, the method you described is safe as long as you use a good password.
The private key is a string of numbers and letters that allows you to spend the bitcoins in an address. If you want to export a private key, use "dumpprivkey" in the Bitcoin console. This is normally useless though, because even if you export the private keys for all your addresses, almost all your bitcoins are stored in addresses you can't see, called change addresses, so most/all of your coins will be lost. Title: Re: Question about wallet management Post by: promojo on March 14, 2014, 07:08:07 PM I would be using multibit. How can I do that with the software? Just file and export?
thanks Title: Re: Question about wallet management Post by: TTM on March 14, 2014, 08:54:50 PM Why don't you do some Google search before asking ? Multibit is very easy to use.
Code: https://multibit.org/help_backupWalletUsingPrivateKeys.html Title: Re: Question about wallet management Post by: promojo on March 19, 2014, 03:40:56 AM Why don't you do some Google search before asking ? Multibit is very easy to use. Code: https://multibit.org/help_backupWalletUsingPrivateKeys.html Thanks... Easy snuff. |