# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-02-02 04:21:56
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3107.msg43457#msg43457

Giving them all the same starting wallet is a bad idea; they will start out with the same keys, but will eventually each generate their own, so their balances will drift out of sync. @p{par}

In theory everything should work out, but in practice using the same wallet on multiple machines hasn't been tested much (I fixed a couple of bugs in the last couple of weeks related to a wallet shared between machines). @p{par}

So before cloning, delete the wallet.dat (assuming it has no bitcoins in it) and let the clones automatically generate a new wallet the first time they start. @p{brk}