Single bitcoind instance and multiple wallets, is it possible ?

[Farghaly]

Is it possible to interact with multiple wallets using a single bitcoind instance ?
i know that the wallet on which bitcoind operate can be changed using -datadir option, but this is per bitcoind instance. is it possible to make somethig like this ? assuming there are multiple wallets

Code:

getnewaddress <account:Foo> <wallet:wallet1.dat>
listunspent <wallet:wallet5.dat>
keypoolrefill 100 <wallet:wallet7.dat>

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[behindtext]

not sure it works for your application, but you should have a look at btcd and btcwallet: they were built to accommodate just this scenario.

https://github.com/conformal/btcd
https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet

iirc bitcoind's account feature is deprecated and does not work how one would hope or expect.

[jedunnigan]

You should read through this thread to get some insights on how to do it: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel/4009

Multiple wallets, used serially, works fine today.  I manage multiple wallets using symlink replacement.

[gwlloyd]

I just use the account functionality to separate, but symlinks would work too (as mentioned above) and are also easy to set-up. Or perhaps look into using something like sx tools to perform the transactions through bitcoind rather than bitcoind itself.

[jedunnigan]

I just use the account functionality to separate, but symlinks would work too (as mentioned above) and are also easy to set-up. Or perhaps look into using something like sx tools to perform the transactions through bitcoind rather than bitcoind itself.

There are a few reasons not use accounts, but mainly this one:

The accounts code does not scale up to thousands of accounts with tens of thousands of transactions, because by-account (and by-account-by-time) indices are not implemented. So many operations (like computing an account balance) require accessing every wallet transaction.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Accounts_explained#Account_Weaknesses

Personally I don't think libbitcoin/obelisk/sx is production ready, but I respect the work genjix is doing.