Some additions wallet.dat, addresses #3678

issue trevor3 opened this issue on February 15, 2014

trevor3 commented at 1:57 PM on February 15, 2014: none

Hi developers,

I dont think , if its possible... But I think wallet.dat might includes only encrypted generated addresses and his private keys. And you can add new button (for example generate new 100 address, etc. for 5 minutes) and export this to .txt file

New user - can download client wallet, generate your 100 addresses and export it to txt, and backup your encrypted wallet.dat FOREVER.

Thanks
laanwj commented at 2:09 PM on February 15, 2014: member

Deterministic wallets (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki) would allow for this .From one seed an infinite number of keys can be generated, so if you don't care about metadata you can make a backup once and use it to restore from forever.

There is a long-standing open issue to implement, see #3250.

Some other wallets such as Electrum already have this feature.
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