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Title: Old wallet.dat problem!
Post by: aaduo01 on February 07, 2018, 11:50:01 AM
Hi. Im found my old pc wallet.dat file but no show balance (test full syncronized pc but show 2013 no newest)  ???
Picture.
http://www.kepfeltoltes.eu/view.php?filename=544645914_screenshot_2018.jpg
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Title: Re: Old wallet.dat problem!
Post by: LoyceV on February 07, 2018, 01:08:53 PM
It's probably an altcoin wallet, do you remember using them in 2013?


Title: Re: Old wallet.dat problem!
Post by: aaduo01 on February 07, 2018, 02:49:09 PM
do you say this is not a bitcoin wallet? I can not remember my brother sent him from the old computer.how do I know what coin?


Title: Re: Old wallet.dat problem!
Post by: HCP on February 07, 2018, 08:14:37 PM
Don't search by "Address"... That is Bitcoin Core interpreting the hex value stored in the wallet as a Bitcoin address which will be different to the address shown on another network. Instead, search by TransactionID as that doesn't change across the networks.

In Bitcoin Core, goto the "Transactions" tab, right click one of the transactions and select "Copy Transaction ID". Then copy/paste that into block explorers for the most common altcoins (ie. Litecoin, Dogecoin etc)

https://live.blockcypher.com/ltc/
https://live.blockcypher.com/doge/


Title: Re: Old wallet.dat problem!
Post by: aaduo01 on February 07, 2018, 08:24:01 PM
Don't search by "Address"... That is Bitcoin Core interpreting the hex value stored in the wallet as a Bitcoin address which will be different to the address shown on another network. Instead, search by TransactionID as that doesn't change across the networks.

In Bitcoin Core, goto the "Transactions" tab, right click one of the transactions and select "Copy Transaction ID". Then copy/paste that into block explorers for the most common altcoins (ie. Litecoin, Dogecoin etc)

https://live.blockcypher.com/ltc/
https://live.blockcypher.com/doge/

Ok. Thx.
Possible can it work?
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/57122/have-a-bunch-of-wallet-dat-files-what-alt-coins-do-they-have-and-may-be-how-mu (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/57122/have-a-bunch-of-wallet-dat-files-what-alt-coins-do-they-have-and-may-be-how-mu)


Title: Re: Old wallet.dat problem!
Post by: HCP on February 07, 2018, 08:59:05 PM
Seems to work "OK".... I just tried it using an old Dogecoin wallet.dat using the "bash" shell in Windows 10 Dev mode...

Code:
strings wallet.dat | grep purpose
and
Code:
strings wallet.dat | grep name

Both returned a list of addresses contained in the wallet.dat ("name" seemed to list more results)... All the addresses were shown in the "correct" format for the wallet type... ie. they all start with a "D"... so I can tell they are "Dogecoin".

Give it a try and see what addresses you can see listed and see what the first letter of the address is... that should help identify which altcoin the wallet belongs to.


Title: Re: Old wallet.dat problem!
Post by: aaduo01 on February 08, 2018, 12:25:25 AM
Seems to work "OK".... I just tried it using an old Dogecoin wallet.dat using the "bash" shell in Windows 10 Dev mode...

Code:
strings wallet.dat | grep purpose
and
Code:
strings wallet.dat | grep name

Both returned a list of addresses contained in the wallet.dat ("name" seemed to list more results)... All the addresses were shown in the "correct" format for the wallet type... ie. they all start with a "D"... so I can tell they are "Dogecoin".

Give it a try and see what addresses you can see listed and see what the first letter of the address is... that should help identify which altcoin the wallet belongs to.
I get these addresses
name"E3QbrBywbvWuq6BbrY1xoCToqPZnFrzukh
name"DtqN21K2QdLoTu91oxf2i5GueMfGeW3ah3
name"EEdQuB9foaQ53r7UGFBrt6dt7nuUyfTGJfs
name"E2tfCHV4CQiXsVCLuGKxnJmkNmRceAszQ8
name"E7546iTPpfwLgrzBsmCzGPKKh8ohtxLi8c
name"E6QUbLk9YdCWvZ4KUshVYrbKCDuUFu9KW4
name"E2CCdrwZGcdav2paJ2DwvoEPg96zY71epr
name"E1A6WogjpqU3KjjoRUD63f7kofrFozmyfg[
name"DxoRbTR8HyopHfwLM8d5xV27qEWdCJz2Lc!C

i just run bitcoin2john.py and i get it then i still bitcoin? this is not the complete hash
python2 bitcoin2john.py wallet.dat
$bitcoin$96$ca929af9a552b9f26bc7dcf5fd0d96fa62ebe9426305de8496767c197da10586435063b635f7367667488ecdf35d6b08$16$f3701f86a38b2731$113636$96$e42f0ea1323571f16ce8a88e43fe8f96d09b719c4bdf50d83f26817a008f570e347ab1d934b2fc836d6c66b4e3e78a85$66$03fe

ok im found goldcoin thx help.