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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: qrbr6 on August 26, 2013, 04:37 pm

Title: New computer
Post by: qrbr6 on August 26, 2013, 04:37 pm
So I have a new computer and imported my bitcoin wallet to it. It's taking quite some time to update the block chain. I know downloading a newer version will help but will I retain the same wallet? I have a few coins in there.
Title: Re: New computer
Post by: farmer1 on August 26, 2013, 05:06 pm
Your computer is taking a long time because it has to verify all the transactions on the blockchain. Your CPU is the bottleneck.

I am not aware that a newer version of bitcoin-qt will help. I don't think it will.

Backup your wallet.dat file and you can add it to whatever version of qt you are running. It will have all your private keys.