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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Still not really understanding the wallet
by
riikka
on 11/06/2011, 08:56:48 UTC
Bitcoin client can handle only one wallet at the same time, and it must me named wallet.dat . You can use another computer (it can be virtual) for running Bitcoin with the savings wallet.

In order to keep the wallet file encrypted while Bitcoin is running, you can use transparent encryption, for example, put /roaming/bitcoin folder in a Truecrypt container. Or, encrypt the whole hard drive :-)