Timeline for Bitcoin core: why does the wallet file contain transactions?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
5 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2014 at 5:50 | vote | accept | linhares | ||
| Jul 18, 2014 at 5:50 | comment | added | linhares | Of course, but incoming txs also seem to change the hash of wallet.dat. Hence my question. | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 5:48 | comment | added | theymos | @linhares Your keys change after every outgoing transaction anyway because Bitcoin Core needs to generate a new change address. | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 5:31 | comment | added | linhares | Interesting. So the tradeoff is performance versus a strong coupling of addresses/transactions. Using and backing up files for some years, I wish we could have separate wallet files from transactions, so that the hash in wallet.dat would only change if something regarding the priv keys had changed. | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 4:50 | history | answered | theymos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |