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Title: BTC Flashdrive wallets? Post by: CaseyHeinzism on June 15, 2011, 03:59:03 AM I am sure this exists already..
But computers sometimes crash and burn up to easily.. or tend to be lightning strike prone every so often like me and mine are... So, what are your thoughts on a flash drive back up wallet, some program.. That also may exist not only to back up your bitcoins but allow you to go to anothers house or store and spend them at their place, in a computer just for bitcoin transactions? Does anyone have or do a system like this? Or the pros and cons of running a bitcoin program totally from a flashdrive... Maybe people have mining programs from flash drives too to save their computers resources.. - Casey Title: Re: BTC Flashdrive wallets? Post by: nhodges on June 15, 2011, 04:00:00 AM I believe the way the wallet.dat file works, as long as you back it up consistently, you can take it and use it from other clients..
Title: Re: BTC Flashdrive wallets? Post by: anthony_ on June 15, 2011, 04:04:14 AM i just keep mine RSA 1024'd and shred the non-encrypted copy.
Title: Re: BTC Flashdrive wallets? Post by: MoonShadow on June 15, 2011, 04:15:48 AM I think you are looking for a portable bitcoin client. Yes, bitcoin can be made portable so that it boots from and stores it's wallet.dat file only upon a thumbdrive. It's not straight forward, however, but only requires that you know how to write a simple batch file to start bitcoin with the -datadir= flag to point back at the thumbdrive itself. It's also wise to encrypt the drive with a program such as truecrypt.
Title: Re: BTC Flashdrive wallets? Post by: rnreekez on June 15, 2011, 06:24:59 AM I was actually searching for something similar to what you're talking about. Found this post: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5194.0 Mostly details on encryption w/ truecrypt (awesome program btw).
I would think bitcoin clients would offer a great benefit to users by offering this as a feature. Encrypt/Decrypt your wallet, choose what encryption method you would like, set secret key etc.....I guess it would end up looking just like TrueCrypt's interface ;D Title: Re: BTC Flashdrive wallets? Post by: MoonShadow on June 15, 2011, 01:29:36 PM I was actually searching for something similar to what you're talking about. Found this post: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5194.0 Mostly details on encryption w/ truecrypt (awesome program btw). I would think bitcoin clients would offer a great benefit to users by offering this as a feature. Encrypt/Decrypt your wallet, choose what encryption method you would like, set secret key etc.....I guess it would end up looking just like TrueCrypt's interface ;D Native encryption of the wallet.dat file is on the to-do list. Title: Re: BTC Flashdrive wallets? Post by: Aresdos on June 21, 2011, 01:47:07 AM I am sure this exists already.. But computers sometimes crash and burn up to easily.. or tend to be lightning strike prone every so often like me and mine are... So, what are your thoughts on a flash drive back up wallet, some program.. That also may exist not only to back up your bitcoins but allow you to go to anothers house or store and spend them at their place, in a computer just for bitcoin transactions? Does anyone have or do a system like this? Or the pros and cons of running a bitcoin program totally from a flashdrive... Maybe people have mining programs from flash drives too to save their computers resources.. - Casey Does this help? I just updated to version 1.2 today ^^ http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18870 Best of luck bro, it surely saved me hours of whining (after spending a few hours just compiling that right, lol) |