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Title: Need to know what altcoin are inside a wallet.dat Post by: wbulot on May 11, 2019, 02:45:46 PM Hi Everyone,
I found an old wallet.dat on a HDD. I'm trying to figure out how to identify the type of coins that are inside. Looks like a lot of alt coin are using "wallet.dat" just like bitcoin. I found by reading online that addresses are written in plain text inside the file, and indeed I can see next to "name=" some adresses. Apparently, the first character of the address could identify the type of coin. In my case it's a "S". Does anyone know which "blockchain" the prefix S corresponds to? What is the best way to find the coin associated with this wallet? Thank you Title: Re: Need to know what altcoin are inside a wallet.dat Post by: posi on May 11, 2019, 09:41:23 PM What I know is that the wallet.dat is the location where the Bitcoin client saved private keys information of wallet and from your statenent about the first character of the address to be "S" which was also the alphabet that begin some BIP32 private keys of a wallet.
I believed what you just saw was the private keys of the old wallet. Title: Re: Need to know what altcoin are inside a wallet.dat Post by: HCP on May 12, 2019, 03:22:51 AM Addresses starting with "S" would be using the (decimal) version byte 63, 63 or 64. (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes)
The only altcoin I could find using one of those values (63) was "Songcoin"... however, when I looked at the ProHashing blockexplorer (https://prohashing.com/explorer/), a number of AltCoins starting with an "S" showed up... and several of those also have addresses that start with an "S". :-\ Perhaps try entering some of your addresses into ProHashing and see if it can find any transactions on any of those addresses for various "S" altcoins... Title: Re: Need to know what altcoin are inside a wallet.dat Post by: keychainX on May 16, 2019, 07:52:48 PM Hi Everyone, I found an old wallet.dat on a HDD. I'm trying to figure out how to identify the type of coins that are inside. Looks like a lot of alt coin are using "wallet.dat" just like bitcoin. I found by reading online that addresses are written in plain text inside the file, and indeed I can see next to "name=" some adresses. Apparently, the first character of the address could identify the type of coin. In my case it's a "S". Does anyone know which "blockchain" the prefix S corresponds to? What is the best way to find the coin associated with this wallet? Thank you You can use pyethrecover that will scan your wallet.dat file for addresses. You can then create a tool that will parse blockchain.info for balances automatically. Its pretty simple /KX |