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Title: How do you create a new wallet in bitcoin-qt (Ubuntu)? [0.5 BTC bounty] Post by: DATA COMMANDER on June 26, 2012, 06:01:13 AM Seems like a silly question, but I searched this forum, searched bitcoin stack exchange, searched google, and didn't find an answer.
I just upgraded to 0.6 and after the block chain downloaded I tried to create a new key to receive BTC. It asked me for my passphrase, and I entered what I thought was the correct phrase (several times), but it didn't like it. Not to worry: the wallet is empty--I just needed to decrypt it to create a new key. So I can just throw the wallet away and make a new one (and make sure that I enter the passphrase correctly and that it works). But how? Bounty might take a couple hours, but it'll be paid. Title: Re: How do you create a new wallet in bitcoin-qt (Ubuntu)? [0.5 BTC bounty] Post by: gweedo on June 26, 2012, 06:15:02 AM Remove the wallet.dat file in your home/.bitcoin folder
then start bitcoin-qt Title: Re: How do you create a new wallet in bitcoin-qt (Ubuntu)? [0.5 BTC bounty] Post by: John (John K.) on June 26, 2012, 06:24:22 AM Data directory for Ubuntu/linux.
Code: Linux Delete wallet.dat contained inside, and restart Bitcoin. Title: Re: How do you create a new wallet in bitcoin-qt (Ubuntu)? [0.5 BTC bounty] Post by: DATA COMMANDER on June 26, 2012, 09:03:31 AM will pay gweedo tomorrow (waiting on Seals withdrawal)
Title: Re: How do you create a new wallet in bitcoin-qt (Ubuntu)? [0.5 BTC bounty] Post by: DATA COMMANDER on June 26, 2012, 04:02:55 PM Just sent 0.49995 BTC to the address in your sig, gweedo. I withdrew exactly 0.5 BTC from Seals to make sure the new wallet was set up properly, and I didn't know about the 0.00005 tx fee (last time I sent coins was a few months ago), so I had to take it out of the bounty. Hope that's okay.
Title: Re: How do you create a new wallet in bitcoin-qt (Ubuntu)? [0.5 BTC bounty] Post by: DATA COMMANDER on June 26, 2012, 05:49:20 PM No problem.
Kinda surprised that there isn't a way to delete wallet.dat through the GUI. Is that just so that people don't own themselves? Title: Re: How do you create a new wallet in bitcoin-qt (Ubuntu)? [0.5 BTC bounty] Post by: GernMiester on June 26, 2012, 08:23:55 PM Just rename wallet.dat. Deleting it will save a few K of space renaming means you can always go back to check it.
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