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June 29, 2013, 07:51:35 PM |
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The wallet.dat stores all the keys to your Bitcoin; you never actually store bitcoins, you only store data that says "you can spend X amount of Bitcoins". It's more like a ledger. If you lose your wallet.dat, you lose access to those Bitcoins to spend, effectively the same as sending your gold on a rocket into the depths of space never to be seen again. There's absolutely no way to recover it, unless you made a back-up, or you're using electrum and copied down the seed to your wallet. However, if you made a backup, it's safe to delete it.
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