Data stored in wallet?

[tkbx]

Exactly what information is stored in your wallet? Is it just your public and private keys? If you back up your wallet, can you load it into another copy of the program and send bitcoins from there? And if you back up your wallet, then gain coins, and restore from a backup, will your coins still be safely stored in the blockchain, or will your balance be as it was when you backed it up?

[tkbx]

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[John (John K.)]

Exactly what information is stored in your wallet? Is it just your public and private keys? If you back up your wallet, can you load it into another copy of the program and send bitcoins from there? And if you back up your wallet, then gain coins, and restore from a backup, will your coins still be safely stored in the blockchain, or will your balance be as it was when you backed it up?

Your bitcoins will be stored as long as you have the accompanying private keys to the address where the bitcoins were sent to. You can receive bitcoins to an address without ever connecting the wallet to the internet.

[Nicolai]

I'm not sure exactly (go to github and browse the source if you want).

Some thing I know is stored:

* public/private keys
* labels (also called "accounts")
* keypool (pre-generated public/private keys)
* last blockheight

[deepceleron]

Everything related to your bitcoin identity is stored in the wallet:

addresses
reserve addresses and the time they were created
address labels
address book (other people's addresses)
past transactions
the last block height seen

There were other things previously stored in the wallet, like program settings, but these have largely been moved out.

[tkbx]

Also, are Multibit/other 3rd party wallets compatible with BTC-qt?

[Gabi]

Yup the wallet contain all these things but the important things are the private keys

Also, are Multibit/other 3rd party wallets compatible with BTC-qt?

No. This mean you have to export and then import the private keys...