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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Mac OS X: Increase Bitcoin keypool
by
BitcoinGirl325
on 25/10/2015, 14:45:10 UTC
I ended up figuring this out by doing it within Bitcoin Core itself, instead of the OS X Terminal.

These are the 3 steps I took:

1. I pulled down from the "Help" menu to "Debug Window", then clicked on the "Console" tab.

2. I typed in:
Code:
walletpassphrase "my password" 300
to unlock my wallet for 300 seconds.

3. I typed in:
Code:
keypoolrefill 10000
to increase the size of my keypool to 10000 addresses. It took a few minutes for it to complete the process.

Afterwards, to verify:
- I checked the size of my wallet.dat file in the OS X Finder, which had now increased to 4.4 MB.
- In Bitcoin Core's Debug Window, I typed in:
Code:
getwalletinfo
which confirmed my keypool size as 10001 addresses. (Where does it get that extra 1 address from, I wonder?)

Thanks for everyone's help! Smiley