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Title: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: Cablesaurus on May 26, 2011, 08:19:13 AM Wondering if it's possible to use the same wallet from 2 different bitcoin-setup machines? For redundancy? Would they synch? Curious.
Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: SomeoneWeird on May 26, 2011, 08:23:21 AM Wondering if it's possible to use the same wallet from 2 different bitcoin-setup machines? For redundancy? Would they synch? Curious. You could probably setup dropbox and have your wallet in that, then run the client with -datadir <dropboxdir>\wallet or something like that, then everytime your wallet changes it would sync, AND you have copy online, might want to TC encrypt it first though. :) Please donate ;) Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: kjj on May 26, 2011, 08:24:16 AM Sorta. Not really. (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9938)
Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: error on May 26, 2011, 08:25:56 AM Wondering if it's possible to use the same wallet from 2 different bitcoin-setup machines? For redundancy? Would they synch? Curious. They will NOT stay in sync; when you receive payments, they will then generate new addresses which will be different from each other. This is, as you can imagine, a recipe for losing your bitcoins forever. Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: Nesetalis on May 26, 2011, 08:27:06 AM have 3 wallets.. a storage wallet.. and one wallet for each computer.. then pay your storage wallet with the recieving wallets.
Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: vuce on May 26, 2011, 08:29:02 AM Wondering if it's possible to use the same wallet from 2 different bitcoin-setup machines? For redundancy? Would they synch? Curious. They will NOT stay in sync; when you receive payments, they will then generate new addresses which will be different from each other. This is, as you can imagine, a recipe for losing your bitcoins forever. Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: error on May 26, 2011, 08:32:04 AM Wondering if it's possible to use the same wallet from 2 different bitcoin-setup machines? For redundancy? Would they synch? Curious. They will NOT stay in sync; when you receive payments, they will then generate new addresses which will be different from each other. This is, as you can imagine, a recipe for losing your bitcoins forever. No, they're generated when you receive payments to an address (that hasn't been paid before) - precisely BECAUSE you received a payment. It's to encourage you to use new addresses for each transaction. Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: vuce on May 26, 2011, 08:33:34 AM Wondering if it's possible to use the same wallet from 2 different bitcoin-setup machines? For redundancy? Would they synch? Curious. They will NOT stay in sync; when you receive payments, they will then generate new addresses which will be different from each other. This is, as you can imagine, a recipe for losing your bitcoins forever. No, they're generated when you receive payments to an address (that hasn't been paid before) - precisely BECAUSE you received a payment. It's to encourage you to use new addresses for each transaction. Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: error on May 26, 2011, 08:34:31 AM Wondering if it's possible to use the same wallet from 2 different bitcoin-setup machines? For redundancy? Would they synch? Curious. They will NOT stay in sync; when you receive payments, they will then generate new addresses which will be different from each other. This is, as you can imagine, a recipe for losing your bitcoins forever. No, they're generated when you receive payments to an address (that hasn't been paid before) - precisely BECAUSE you received a payment. It's to encourage you to use new addresses for each transaction. The new address will be generated the next time you start up bitcoin. Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: vuce on May 26, 2011, 08:36:54 AM The new address will be generated the next time you start up bitcoin. OK fair enough. But those addresses would not have any coins attached to them, so they're not important (one wouldn't lose coins even if those addresses are lost)?Anyway, thanks for clearing that up for me :) Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: error on May 26, 2011, 08:42:58 AM The new address will be generated the next time you start up bitcoin. OK fair enough. But those addresses would not have any coins attached to them, so they're not important (one wouldn't lose coins even if those addresses are lost)?Anyway, thanks for clearing that up for me :) Sure, but invariably you'll pick one of those addresses to give to someone to pay you. Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: SomeoneWeird on May 26, 2011, 08:43:42 AM Still pretty sure my way will work, as im using it right now...
Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: error on May 26, 2011, 08:44:58 AM Still pretty sure my way will work, as im using it right now... Yes, the Dropbox sync method would work, but then you have the problem of someone swiping your wallet.dat out of Dropbox. Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: SomeoneWeird on May 26, 2011, 08:46:19 AM Yes, that's why it's in a TC volume.
Title: Re: Can I use the same wallet on 2 machines? Post by: error on May 26, 2011, 08:47:03 AM Yes, that's why it's in a TC volume. And THAT only works if you can guarantee that only one client will access it at a time. Otherwise you run the risk of file corruption. |