Questions tagged [wallet.dat]
This tag should be used for questions regarding wallet.dat files. A wallet.dat is a file used by Bitcoin Core which stores private keys and other information necessary to spend Bitcoin.
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How do I recover/use an old wallet from 2011/2012
I heard about Bitcoin from the Security Now podcast back in 2011 and downloaded and started playing with the Windows client at the time from Bitcoin.org. I think I updated the client a few times, but ...
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Why isn't importing wallet.dat as straightforward as it seems it should be?
In most of computerdom, an app's File dropdown menu has an Import item that permits selection of a file to import into the application. This would seem to be an obvious feature to include in a ...
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How Do They Get BTC Wallet.dat With Balance?
Going through YouTube, I found some videos on Bitcoin wallet.dat with balance.
Looking at these videos, you will notice that these balances found in these btc wallet.dat are not on watch only ...
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Why are there ETH addresses in bitcoin wallet.dat?
So I have a lot of addresses or pkscript listed in my wallet.dat files that begin with 0014....all...numbers.
There is bitcoin address on the same line starting with a 3.
When I strip the 0014 and ...
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Does restoring wallet.dat require the same paths and configs in servers?
I have a Bitcoin core server (Server 1) which is working well. Now I am testing backing up and restoring its wallet on a new server (Server 2).
Imagine that the server 1 has these configs:
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What does best block time mean in wallet.dat
I have a wallet.dat file that states:
Best block at time of backup was 42603 (0000000013136bd812212959a15ef0ea0f084ee2c64e2f7f0e127d198f67a37f),
mined on 2010-02-26T00:36:08Z
Does that mean that one ...
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how to move my Bitcoin core wallet to electrum while syncing
How do I move my btc qt wallet to electrum while syncing?
Not address by address.
Removed some addresses already but I'm still missing some coins.
Don't understand the discrepancy.
Any help would ...
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Ledger 8 pin number how hard in terms of entropy is it to guess?
ledger has a max. 8 number pin for unlocking it as far I know.
I am very interested, can someone say if (given any method/resources) it is in any scenario (except luck) possible to guess this 8 ...
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wallet.dat on usb to electrum
I put my btc qt wallet.dat file on a USB and would like to open it on a software wallet. Preferably electrum. Is that possible?
If so how?
Too many problems with btc qt and takes forever to sync.
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How to get the private keys out of old wallet.dat without syncing blockchain
I have old wallet.dat files of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Omnicore. My Bitcoin Cash wallet.dat has unbroadcasted transactions inside, so I am afraid that others might also have unbroadcasted ...
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Try to migrate Bitcoin Core wallet to an HD wallet but get “St13runtime” exception
I am trying to follow these steps to migrate my wallet to an HD wallet. But it failed, the debug log has errors like this:
EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error
DeriveNewSeed: AddKeyPubKey failed
bitcoin in ...
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Bitcoin Private Key Decryption
At present, I have dumped my wallet and have all private key, address information. I am now wanting to understand the decryption process for the private keys within the wallet. I have completed the ...
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Restoring a Bitcoin Core wallet [duplicate]
I have a wallet.dat file from an old computer which was last accessed around February 23, 2012 which I need to restore into a newly installed Bitcoin Core program on a new computer.
Can I just ...
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Inserting *.dat file in new client
I'm running out of ideas and I'm hoping to get some help.
My computer crashed but I have the wallet.dat file on a thumb drive. I've downloaded and synced v0.18.1 on a new computer but don't see any ...
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recovering wallet [duplicate]
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I am not exactly sure what I need to do and I do not want to accidentally overwrite my disk. I may have already done so.
After searching my web history I have found the BTC address that my BTC is ...
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When I specify wallet in bitcoin.conf for testnet3, it gets ignored
I have a question about specifying wallet for testnet3. My bitcoin.conf file is located in the root of the Bitcoin folder with the line 'wallet = receiving.dat as well as testnet=1. Whenever I run '...
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Recovery of a corrupted wallet
I have a very old wallet.dat that I've put into my .bitcoin folder. When trying to run bitcoind, the service stops giving the following error
2019-06-11T18:14:02Z Using wallet directory /home/nom/....
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How to sync my backed up wallet?
I backed up my wallet from computer A. restored the backup on computer B. then I spent some amount of bitcoin from computer A.
Now my restored wallet on computer B shows the old balance which is ...
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Understanding default bitcoin wallet in bitcoind
I am new to block-chain, so please bear with my questions. I need to understand the basics of a bitcoin-wallet.
So I have setup a bitcoin full node using bitcoind in running in testnet mode. As I ...
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wallet.dat from 2014 shown as empty with latest client 0.18
I have bitcoin wallet from 2014. I have saved it encrypted.
Since then I haven't checked it, until now.
I did sync the whole bitcoin block-chain and when copy my wallet.dat and re-scan wit the ...
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How can I import an address or public key into my wallet.dat file?
I have a wallet.dat with Bitcoin Address: 15iRTcgqBk1QNtr2gKkq2dUsm5nN25dSeN
I want to delete this Bitcoin Address: 15iRTcgqBk1QNtr2gKkq2dUsm5nN25dSeN and add another Bitcoin Address
How can I add ...
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Recovering wallet after formatting SSD
I am not exactly sure what I need to do and I do not want to accidentally overwrite my disk. I may have already done so.
After searching my web history I have found the BTC address that my BTC is on ...
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How to remove password from encrypted wallet with password? [duplicate]
Without using dumpwallet nor dumpprivkey, is there a way to take an encrypted wallet and making it decrypted so it can be used without entering a password?
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Help: I want to configure wallet.dir to be saved on aws s3 instead of locally
I'm building bitcoin from source to add some functionality. The main reason is that I want to use AWS S3 to store my wallet.dat file (for security reasons) instead of being stored locally.
Basically, ...
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Does bitcoind store timestamp at which private key was imported?
If we import a private key using bitcoin-cli importprivkey <key>, is there anyway to find out when the import was done?
I am hoping a timestamp is included.
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old wallet.dat with only incoming tx from mining, now shows 0 coins even after rescan and all the transactions are there
I found an old wallet.dat it contained hundreds of transactions while i was mining.
I've replaced the wallet.dat in a new Bitcoin Core wallet, rescanned, all the txid are showing but the amount of ...
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Is it possible that one knows how much BTC is in wallet.dat without knowing password?
Someone says that he or she wants to sell his or her wallet.dat which seems to contain a lot of BTC.
He shows screenshot of wallet software containing many BTCs.
He says that when I place wallet.dat ...
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Do wallets save a backup of my private keys and seed?
Let's say that I do not trust a lot in myself and my ability to not screw my computer, so also my private keys.
Knowing the concept of wallet HD and having seeds to recover all your private keys ...
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How to load multiple wallet ? Proper way to handle multiple wallet like account wise wallet
I am trying understand the multiple wallet.I took the reference from this link
What I want to do ?
Right now in single wallet we can create multiple accounts and each accounts can have multiple ...
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Переустановка bitcoin core [closed]
После установки Биткойн ядро на компьютер отправил на него немного монет, они были подтверждены сетью и отображались в балансе кошелька. Через некоторое время отправил еще монеты, используя тот же ...
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How to migrate bitcoin node from one computer to another
In my old computer some addresses have bitcoin and it is showing on blockchain.
When i am trying to get balance of the same addresses in my new computer where i have synced bitcoin full node ,I ...
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how to create web wallet for bitcoin
I want to create a web wallet for bitcoin in which anyone can create their account and do the transactions but my node allow me to create one desktop wallet only. so i am not getting how this ...
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Why is wallet.dat BerkeleyDB instead of LevelDB?
Why wasn't wallet.dat migrated to LevelDB?
Is it because
BerkeleyDB is better at [something]
Backwards compatibility
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QT Client - Wallet.Dat - Vulnerable?
I recently took my BTC off my QT Core Client on my computer and got the coins onto my Ledger Nano S wallet fine.
My question is if the Wallet.Dat file on my computer (from the QT client install) were ...
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Bitcoin core dump private key gives a wrong key which corresponds to a different bitcoin address [duplicate]
According to this and this stackexchange answer and so many other resources, I can get my wallet's private key by using the dumpprivkey command on the debug console of Bitcoin Core (Qt) and import it ...
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What Happened 12/30/17 Last Recieved Transaction into Bitcoin Core Wallet
I have found a different receiving address within my wallet that is not mine... at least I did not create it. It seems to me that all of my transactions are now going to this new address instead of ...
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Bitcoin Core Multi-wallet limit to 333 wallets
Bitcoin Core 0.15.1 has Multi wallets support:
In the bitcoin.conf we can add multiple entries of:
wallet=wallet-1.dat
wallet=wallet-2.dat
wallet=wallet-3.dat
wallet=wallet-4.dat
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Computer crashed, total reinstallation. Have wallet.dat but not private key
My computer crashed and I was using the Bitcoin Core/QT client (they're the same right)? I thought I had my public and private keys saved, but those keys are from my old Armory wallet. I don't think I ...
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old wallet.dat from 2013/14 with some btc not confirmed or in mempool
Found a wallet.dat from 2013/14 with some btc received from a pool as i did a bit of mining. 4 received transactions in latest bitcoin core wallet but 0 confirmations and says not in mempool. ...
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How can I make my old wallet.dat work in a newer client?
Im having trouble with my wallet.dat file in the old bitcoin qt client the blockchain won't update because the computer is old and outdated so I'm unable to send the bitcoins that I have in the wallet ...
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“wallet corrupt salvage failed” Error. Help with pywallet
I have an old wallet from 2013 with some BTC in it possibly. I have guesses for what the passphrase could be but not 100% sure on it. Everything I find online is to use pywallet but I unfortunately am ...
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Is it possible to recover coins after clicking on Reset Options button?
I use emercoin windows wallet -
Emercoin Core version v0.6.3emc (64-bit)
I clicked the button - Reset options.
The app restarted,
and balance changed to 0.
The wallet was completely out of sync ...
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Bitcoin Recovery Email or Hard Drive
I received 100 bitcoins from a donor around 2009 but do not remember name of donor, their email address or password etc to recover the bitcoins! Any suggestions or advice?
I am seeking someone to ...
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Trying to open an old bitcoin core wallet.dat file fails
I am trying to open an old (~2012) bitcoin core wallet.dat with a bitcoin.com wallet, and it says that my password is incorrect, although it works great on my bitcoin core wallet.
Was there any ...
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Does bitcoind (as of 0.15) support BIP39 mnemonic phrase for wallets?
Can bitcoind print out a BIP39 seed phrase to backup the wallet?
Can I import a BIP39 seed phrase (from, for example, Breadwallet on iOS)into bitcoind?
I know bitcoind wallets have been BIP32 format ...
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Using Bitcoin Core on Ubuntu. How to claim BCH & BTG while keeping whole BTC blockchain? [duplicate]
I'm using the Bitcoin Core client on Ubuntu. I've got the whole ~170GB blockchain on my hard drive. I'd like to be able to claim my BCH and BTG while preserving that blockchain, though if I don't ...
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I know I have a Bitcoin because BlockchainInfo says so… But loading wallet.dat into Core does nothing!
Is it possible the file is corrupt? The file size is 96kb.
I just spend 2 weeks downloading Bitcoin Core, and when I replaced the wallet file in there with the wallet.dat file I saved on my computer a ...
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can i find my wallet address without opening bitcoin core qt
I havent ran bitcoin core qt for 4 years. And now the program wont run, just says bitcoin qt quit unexpectedly.
A: How can i check my bitcoin address and balance
B: How can i get the program working ...
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wallet.dat size in Bitcoin Core
Just created a new wallet using Bitcoin Core v0.15.1 (Windows x64), encrypted it with a password, and created one receiving address. The size of this wallet is 1 Mb.
In comparison, my old wallet, ...
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How do I transfer bitpay wallet from one machine to another (PC or oth. type of device)
I have a new PC that I want to host my bitpay wallet on, so I need to migrate it from the current machine. I did a superficial search on the current machine for *wallet.dat* file in my C: drive w/ dir ...
