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The data file for the wallet is wallet.dat and is located in the Bitcoin [[data directory]]. | The data file for the wallet is wallet.dat and is located in the Bitcoin [[data directory]]. | ||
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| + | It is intended that a wallet be used on only one installation of Bitcoin at a time. Attempting to clone a wallet for use on multiple computers will result in "weird behavior"<ref>[http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5324.msg77896#msg77896 Multiple instance of bitcoin with the same wallet]</ref>. | ||
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Revision as of 07:49, 11 June 2011
A Bitcoin wallet contains[1]:
- your keypairs for each addresses
- transactions done from/to your addresses
- user preferences
- default key
- reserve keys
- accounts
- a version number
- Key pool
The data file for the wallet is wallet.dat and is located in the Bitcoin data directory.
It is intended that a wallet be used on only one installation of Bitcoin at a time. Attempting to clone a wallet for use on multiple computers will result in "weird behavior"[2].
