I found an old hard drive, performed a deep scan and managed to recover an old wallet.dat file from late 2010. Not sure how much (if any) btc are in the wallet, however I'm having trouble importing the wallet into Electrum to check.
I have no idea how to restore this shit since I can't remember if it had a password (if it did, I'd be able to guess it) but when I try to import it into Electrum, nothing happens. Not sure if its corrupted or not.
I have no idea how to use linux or any coding or w.e, so I can't use pywallet, et al. to recvoer the the wallet)
What do?
Lucas King
I think you need a wallet which downloads the entire blockchain.
Adam Adams
In bitcoin core open the debug console and use the dumpwallet command to dump your wallet in WIF format.
You should then be able to import the WIF private keys into Electrum
If it's even slightly corrupted you're basically fucked because it will have messed up your hash. That being said, I wish you good luck.
James James
LMK IF IT WORKS
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Hunter James
option 1: put it in C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Electrum\wallets then if it is not corrupy, electrum should convert it to a new format and use it
option 2: option 3: PyWallet
option 4: professional service
Wyatt Fisher
posting in potential glorious thread. Hi Mum
Elijah Gonzalez
why do fags love to LARP over lost wallet.dat?
Owen Reed
This isn't a larp, I seriously can't get this shit to open
Brody King
Not paying you attention without timestamp of any kind. /s
Kayden Phillips
Trying now
Will post updates
The pic in my op is of wondershare data recovery program deep scan results on an old toshiba hard drive that fucking buzzes when its being used
i don't give a fuck if you believe or not
Elijah Brooks
let us know if you get it working and how much you find in there. i love when people come across old wallets like this.
Ayden Martin
>financial cuck detected
Nathaniel Wright
lol, no, ive already got millions of $ of bitcoin so it's fun for me.
Samuel Phillips
more like millions of larps
Ryder Miller
> digits and color of id predict your future
Juan Gomez
You can prove it and make a poorfag happy at the same time.
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Ethan Howard
Going to need some proof here.
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Blake Morris
i'd love u forever
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Samuel Campbell
Here come the spineless beggars
Christopher Morgan
my b
Jaxon Cruz
Still can't get it to open. When I import the wallet, nothing happens. Literally nothing. No error, nothing.
Trying pywallet (again)
Samuel Sullivan
That's my que
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Logan Baker
i think i heard of a program that will scan through each byte and just dump each 32 bytes from the file, then you can convert those to compressed and uncompressed WIFs and then check if they have anything on.
i dont believe wallet.dat files were encrypted back then so you shouldnt need a password or anything.
Xavier Wilson
and i hope you made a backup of it before trying these things with it.
Jordan Walker
Yeah I made a back up of it already
I think you're talking about Pywallet but I can't get that to work since I'm not at all familiar with linux or pyhton or anything non-windows, really
I've read about scanning a hard drive for key signatures or anything that resembles a key or w.e as well
Right now though, I just need to open the wallet.dat
Josiah Bell
open it with a hex editor and check it's not just all zeroes or something
Xavier Myers
>I've read about scanning a hard drive for key signatures or anything that resembles a key or w.e as well Don't touch the original disk at all. Leave it powered off. Maybe take a full disk dump if you can. The keys might not be in the wallet file you recovered, but they could still be on disk. (unlikely, but still)
Christian Morgan
nah, theres literally a script out there that would start from byte 0 and read bytes 0 to 32, then 1 to 33, 2 to 34, etc, and convert them all to WIFs, because if there are keys in there, unencrypted, then they would be found.
but that's a last resort if you can't get anything to parse it.
Juan Howard
and that's just the wallet.dat file, you don't need to scan any other files because bitcoin doesn't store them anywhere else.
Caleb Myers
Hey man! hope it goes well. If you find a lot of coins send me 1 BTC and I will post here to verify that you are not trolling :)
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Easton White
Yeah me too :) 1MGWZgxHLekfFSfo2shYi8ZzmhxxX8PZxz
Jordan Garcia
>Pywallet pywallet might be a bitch to use on windows but i have used it easily on linux though. if you want to, try installing ubuntu on virtualbox and using pywallet on that. i can help with the commands if you want or you can just google it.
Bentley Peterson
the command would just be something like: >python pywallet.py --info --datadir=/home/User/wallet_dir/
or something
Samuel Sullivan
Can't you just download the normal bitcoin core wallet and import the wallet somewhere or place it in the bitcoin core installation folder or something?
Alexander Moore
even better download the version of bitcoin that was out when the wallet file was in use
Jeremiah Hill
like fucking vultures, it's pathetic, you don't even know if this guy has 0.001 BTC and you're already here with hat in hand. You should seriously kys
Michael Young
>only 0.001 btc in 2010 >these digits RIP Veeky Forums
Lucas Watson
Roollinnfg
Levi Wright
rip biz because I think begging is fucking pathetic? people have no pride whatsoever because they think a few words on an anonymous board require no effort so why not keep casting the line on the one-in-a-billion chance some dude does decide to give them some crumbs. I consider them the lowest form of humanity, I would hurt them beyond anything you could imagine if I encountered these types of people face to face - they aren't even human to me.
Andrew Robinson
lmao
Oliver Morales
...
Thomas Sullivan
>I consider them the lowest form of humanity, I would hurt them beyond anything you could imagine if I encountered these types of people face to face - they aren't even human to me.
