Re: Two Bitcoin Wallets on Same PC

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.

i want to make sure mate about your statement, cause im a bit confused.

so we are allowed to have two or more wallets using core but we are only allowed to open ONLY one wallet AT A TIME?

did i get you right?

pre 0.15.0.1 that was correct. But, as OmegaStarScream pointed out, since 0.15.0.1 was released earlyer this week, it is now possible to open more than one wallet at once.