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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Understanding keypool in Bitcoin Core
by
kobik
on 13/02/2018, 14:07:38 UTC
The default keypool is set to 1000. What does it mean exactly? That I have a pool of 1000 keys/address to use?
If you have a HD wallet (check the icon on the bottom-right corner in Bitcoin Core), it doesn't matter.

Thanks for a clear answer. just to make it sure, if my wallet(s) are HD (which I do by default) I should not mind about keypool size and I can use 10 of 20 for that matter?

Also I made a mistake:

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and loads much faster?

Should have been a fact, not a question.
When I tried to load/create 100 wallets (in multi-wallet mode), they were loaded/created in no time. as opposed when using the default 1000 keypool.