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Questions tagged [wallet]

A wallet manages a user's private keys. Wallet software is used to send and receive Bitcoin. It also keeps track of the user's transactions, addresses, and balance.

This tag should be used for questions pertaining to Bitcoin wallet software. Wallet software handle users' keypairs, addresses, and transactions as well as allowing for the sending and receiving of Bitcoin.

This tag can also be used for wallet files (the files containing the wallet's information), their contents, formatting and any other related topics.

This tag should not be used for any questions relating to the traditional definition of the word, such as "Where can I buy a wallet with bitcoins?"

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Can I use my wallet on different computers?

I'm used to synchronize my data on different machines. Depending on the data I use SVN, Dropbox or SSH (Unison). Is this possible with the bitcoin wallet, too?
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How can I transfer all funds to new keys?

My wallet.dat (bitcoin-3.4) has maybe been left on a work machine, leaving it accessible to the admins there. I would like to transfer all my current funds to a new wallet. How do I do this and how can I make sure that: I still will be able to…
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Got the Bitcoin Wallet. How do I transfer money into it?

I've got active connections & there are blocks downloaded but I don't know what to do next. Presumably I need to transfer some money in there so I can buy bitcoins. But how? Any suggestions gratefully relieved. Thanks.
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Is there a way to automatically send bitcoins from one wallet to another?

Say I have 2 wallets, an older non-encrypted one and a fresh new encrypted wallet with all new addresses. If I have an address in the older wallet that may receive some bitcoins in the future is there away to set it up so that these bitcoins will…
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What information does a wallet contain?

What information does the Bitcoin wallet file used by the Bitcoin.org client contain? Is the owner's Bitcoin balance written in the wallet.dat file, or does it contain a list of transactions that have been made since the beginning of wallet…
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Is there a wallet for different cryptocurrencies

For a person who has different amount of different cryptocurrencies it is actually annoying to use many clients. Right now just Bitcoin data is more than 15 GB, litecoin 1.5 GB and so on. Is there any wallet which incorporates many wallets? Is it…
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If I buy Bitcoins at Coinbase.com, should I leave them on Coinbase.com, or should I move them into a Bitcoin Wallet? Why?

If I buy Bitcoins at Coinbase.com, should I leave them in my account at Coinbase.com, or should I move them into a Bitcoin Wallet? Why?
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Wallet on multiple computers

I have a desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone. I want to be able to send and receive payments from all these devices. How do I go about doing that? Do I have to create a unique wallet on each computer?
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How can I split my bitcoin wallet?

Let's say I have 10 bitcoins. I won't be using 8 of them any time soon. How can I put the 8 in a separate "offline" wallet not related to the bitcoin client? This would be a good security measure. If the bitcoin client is ever compromised, only the…
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What is the safest bitcoin wallet?

The reason i asked this question, because i just discover bitcoin a day back. And i found out that there are 3 type of wallet, which is in web like coinbase, our own computer like multibit, and mobile wallet. Seems like those 3 have flaw. I just…
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How can I use bitcoins on deposit?

I had received bitcoins before my wallet was fully synchronized and it took several days for it to finish the process, so I decided to deposit the bitcoins in another wallet. Now I can see they are "on deposit", but they do not show up in my other…
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How to deal with the wallets with very small amount of Bitcoins?

The scenario is: You have a wallet with only 0.0001 BTC or less. The amount is less than the transaction fee. You want to transfer the coins to another wallet in order to reduce the wallet size. How can this be done? Thank you good people:)
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Sharing a wallet with a friend

How can I share my bitcoin wallet with my family members? Such that if my grandmother spends one btc one day, I see that reflected on my computer, etc. This is also a great safety mechanism, in case one of our family member's hard drive crashes, the…
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Can I generate an offline Bitcoin wallet using only OpenSSL?

From what I understand about Bitcoin, a wallet is really just a pair of public/private keys. So, if someone needs to send me Bitcoins, all I need to do is just generate a pair or public/private keys using OpenSSL or some other tool, and send the…
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Is there a standard wallet format?

Is there a standard wallet format that can be read with different bitcoin clients, and that is likely to be compatible to future bitcoin clients as well and thus is usable for long term storage of bitcoins? Or how am I supposed to transfer bitcoins…
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