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Simple Bitcoin wallet encrypt&backup script

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Re: Simple Bitcoin wallet encrypt&backup script

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I'm sure this is fine, but in general I'd want to be sure that anything touching the wallet.dat is safe. Keeping a liquid store of value on one's pc opens it up to new malicious apps knowing exactly what to target. A major client-side security breach would look really bad for bitcoin.

Re: Simple Bitcoin wallet encrypt&backup script

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I'm sure this is fine, but in general I'd want to be sure that anything touching the wallet.dat is safe. Keeping a liquid store of value on one's pc opens it up to new malicious apps knowing exactly what to target. A major client-side security breach would look really bad for bitcoin.

Well, it's open source :) But you're right - better check twice every single process.