<p>Provided that your wallet is an HD wallet (Bitcoin Core will show you a small HD  in the bottom toolbar if it is), then you can safely use it on both machines, as addresses are deterministically generated.</p>

<p>If your wallet is individual key based, then after you copy the wallet to the second machine, they will diverge and generate different keys for future addresses.</p>

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Raghav Sood
<p>I wanna put my <code>wallet.dat</code> to another node, and keep them online at the same time, Can I do like that?  and is there any problem?</p>

<p>BTW, how can I  do load balance with bitcoin node?  Thx</p>

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Can I have the same wallet opened in multiple computers?
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# Can I have the same wallet opened in multiple computers?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-11-26)

I wanna put my `wallet.dat` to another node, and keep them online at the same time, Can I do like that? and is there any problem?

BTW, how can I do load balance with bitcoin node? Thx

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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-11-26. Score: 2

Provided that your wallet is an HD wallet (Bitcoin Core will show you a small HD in the bottom toolbar if it is), then you can safely use it on both machines, as addresses are deterministically generated.

If your wallet is individual key based, then after you copy the wallet to the second machine, they will diverge and generate different keys for future addresses.


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