Topic: 2 Computers 1 Wallet (Read 1901 times)
what about having 2 wallets? do you have to back it up all over again every time the amount changes?, what if you spend some btc and then put in your old wallet file
no I'm not doing it , I was just wondering what would happen.
A wallet in use in two places can't damage the network. Its is more likely to confuse than break the wallet. You would have access to all your bitcoins between the two copies. Telling exactly how many bitcoins you had would be difficult though since there would be a partial overlap between the two.
If transactions were sent from both computers around the same time you might end up trying to send the same bitcoins to two different people. The block chain would sort that out and one of the people would get their coins and the other would not. At that point one of the two would be rather annoyed with you much as if you had given them a bad check.
If something worse did go wrong though I won't be sending you any bitcoins to cover the loss so I would not recommend trying it out.
If transactions were sent from both computers around the same time you might end up trying to send the same bitcoins to two different people. The block chain would sort that out and one of the people would get their coins and the other would not. At that point one of the two would be rather annoyed with you much as if you had given them a bad check.
If something worse did go wrong though I won't be sending you any bitcoins to cover the loss so I would not recommend trying it out.
I do backup my wallet.dat file [several places]
but for this question I was wondering what the implications where ...
i.e.
I do have one runinng at home, work & parents [all different wallets] ,
but if I lost access to one I could re-create the wallet ,
the question really was what would happen if the other came back on stream. .... i.e. could you break BC by doing this and somehow poisoning the blocks IYSWIM or would the worse damage you could do is break a single wallet. [ I suppose this really is not a question for Technical support ]
but for this question I was wondering what the implications where ...
i.e.
I do have one runinng at home, work & parents [all different wallets] ,
but if I lost access to one I could re-create the wallet ,
the question really was what would happen if the other came back on stream. .... i.e. could you break BC by doing this and somehow poisoning the blocks IYSWIM or would the worse damage you could do is break a single wallet. [ I suppose this really is not a question for Technical support ]
What you could do is use a usb stick. Put your wallet.dat on it and use -datadir= everytime you start bitcoin. No where ever you go you'll have your wallet with you.
Of course, there are some security implications. You have to trust the computer is malware free before running bitcoin on it
Of course, there are some security implications. You have to trust the computer is malware free before running bitcoin on it
OK,
this is not something I'd want to do , however it may be worth trying to stop this if it could potentially cause a problem down the line
this is not something I'd want to do , however it may be worth trying to stop this if it could potentially cause a problem down the line
As you use the bitcoin software you create new addresses, once you ran through the pregenerated addresses you would end up with a different balance on each computer as the wallets diverged.
There might be additional strange behavior from the software as well.
You can copy the wallet file back and forth between 2 computers as long as you are only using it in one location at a time and make sure you use the latest copy.
There might be additional strange behavior from the software as well.
You can copy the wallet file back and forth between 2 computers as long as you are only using it in one location at a time and make sure you use the latest copy.
well not quite, 
what happens if you setup two [multiple] machines with the same wallet info ?
what happens if you setup two [multiple] machines with the same wallet info ?
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