Title: How to get wallet.dat balance from command line? Post by: codekrash on December 22, 2020, 08:14:06 PM I have many bitcoin core wallets from years ago (encrypted). How do I check their balance from command line? Loading each one in bitcoin core GUI is a painfully slow process that will take weeks/months.
At the very least, how can I extract addresses so I can check them online for their balance? Been struggling with pywallet.. Thanks, Title: Re: How to get wallet.dat balance from command line? Post by: DaveF on December 22, 2020, 09:22:51 PM How many wallet.dat files? Dozens? How many addresses?
You can remove the blockchain data and take the machine offline. Then open each wallet one at a time and use dumpwallet to get the addresses. It will be quick since it does not have to scan the blockchain. Copy the addresses notepad and then check in a block explorer. -Dave Title: Re: How to get wallet.dat balance from command line? Post by: NotATether on December 22, 2020, 09:30:42 PM Start the bitcoind program instead of bitcoin-qt and use bitcoin-cli loadwallet <wallet-name> followed by bitcoin-cli -rpcwallet <wallet-name> getbalance.
The -rpcwallet option needs to be passed so Core knows which wallet you want to get the balance for. Example: Code: notatether@localhost$ bitcoin-cli loadwallet defaultman Title: Re: How to get wallet.dat balance from command line? Post by: nc50lc on December 23, 2020, 04:16:58 AM I have many bitcoin core wallets from years ago (encrypted). How do I check their balance from command line? Loading each one in bitcoin core GUI is a painfully slow process that will take weeks/months. The command line will be as slow as the GUI when it comes with scanning a wallet file once you've loaded it, so querying for the balance using Bitcoin-cli will have the same pace as Bitcoin-qt.At the very least, how can I extract addresses so I can check them online for their balance? If they were previously scanned with balance and history, then there should be readable addresses after the string: name" when you open them with a text editor.But that won't show you the correct balance of the wallet, just a hint that it may be hodling some bitcoins. If the wallet has clear history (eg. when previously used -zapwallettxes), all you'll see are 'jumbled' strings. |