Hi Guys
A friend who's PC died asked me to load Bitcoin Core on my PC and retrieve his wallet which he had stored on a USB stick. He now wants to give me two Bitcoins. Is it possible to run two separate wallets on the same PC in Bitcoin Core or better to keep them separate? Can I run a separate Bitcoin client on the same PC?
Cheers.
You can keep as many wallets as you want on the same PC. However, if using core, you can only have one of them open at the same time.
You can open them from the commandline, in windows, it's "bitcoin-qt.exe -wallet=". In windows, you can just make 2 shortcuts: one to each wallet. In linux, you can create an alias for each wallet.
Cheers dude. So I only need one Core client and just ask it to boot a different wallet each time?