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Title: Securing My Bitcoin Wallet
Post by: plogank on August 30, 2011, 05:31:44 PM
I sent a few Bitcoins to my wife's wallet.  I then encrypted my wallet with GPG and stored a copy in a secure location.

I then opened my Bitcoin client and of course a new empty wallet was made.  I then transferred the Bitcoins I stored on my wife's computer back to my wallet.  I did discover I now have a new address and the old one won't work.  I lost .001 Bitcoin testing but I'm guessing I'll get that back when I open my saved wallet.

This worked for me and I hope it'll help someone else.


Title: Re: Securing My Bitcoin Wallet
Post by: greyhawk on August 30, 2011, 06:10:54 PM
Here's a lot of info on securing your wallet

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=17240.0