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Aside from all the issues that plague bitcoin, what would be a more secure way of 'touching' the wallet.dat file?

Keep in mind that:

1) IO is expensive

2) the file will not be encrypted

3) the file will/should not be hosted on the same machine

4) the file will be accessed in excess of 1,000,000 times a day; maybe more.

The only thing I can think to do is do all the transactions with imaginary bitcoins until the end of the day then, at night, push all the transfers; almost like banks do.



It seems like it would be feasible to split the coins across wallets, with more hassle surrounding the wallet with most of the coins.

I can't think of any huge disadvantage to manually managing the float on the transaction server.




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