Why make things more complex, KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is a good principle to design security software. And when dealing with money, the more code there is the more space there is for bugs to sneak in. Write a separate utility for merging wallets. You never see a Ferrari with a sink plumbed in to it for some drivers who may wish to wash their hands once a year.
Merging two or more wallet.dat files, by grabbing their private keys as input and spewing all private keys out into a new merged wallet.dat file. A separate utility would be safer, if something when wrong (power failure) you would still have all your original unmodified wallet.dat files.
I agree with Salzgitter - perfect example of KISS, why reinvent the wheel.
Topic: Merging wallets (Read 3379 times)
Seriously, what could possibly be more straightforward than sending coins from one wallet to the other?
Maybe something like
Code:
$ bitcoind --import-wallet /path/to/other/wallet.dat
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Seriously, what could possibly be more straightforward than sending coins from one wallet to the other?
Say you have two computers with bitcoin software running on them and two separate wallets. How would you consolidate all of your coins into one wallet? I suppose you could send them to yourself at the second computer. Is there a more straight forward way to merge the two bitcoin wallets into one?
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