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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Altcoin Discussion => Topic started by: Praxis on November 25, 2013, 03:11:47 PM



Title: have a "wallet.dat" but don't know which *coin it belongs to?
Post by: Praxis on November 25, 2013, 03:11:47 PM
Can I find that out?


Title: Re: have a "wallet.dat" but don't know which *coin it belongs to?
Post by: Chemisist on November 25, 2013, 03:29:08 PM
If you know the default prefixes for the various alt-coins (e.g., btc, ltc, wdc and mnc addresses usually start with "1", "L", "W" and "N", respectively) you can just open up the .dat file in a text editor (notepad, notepad++, etc.) and look for the addresses in there.  I think that you can find the addresses by searching (ctrl+f) for the text string "name" and a bunch of addresses should be listed near that.  Then it's just a matter of figuring out what cryptocoin the wallet belongs to depending on the first character of the address. Good luck!


Title: Re: have a "wallet.dat" but don't know which *coin it belongs to?
Post by: Praxis on November 25, 2013, 03:44:46 PM
If you know the default prefixes for the various alt-coins (e.g., btc, ltc, wdc and mnc addresses usually start with "1", "L", "W" and "N", respectively) you can just open up the .dat file in a text editor (notepad, notepad++, etc.) and look for the addresses in there.  I think that you can find the addresses by searching (ctrl+f) for the text string "name" and a bunch of addresses should be listed near that.  Then it's just a matter of figuring out what cryptocoin the wallet belongs to depending on the first character of the address. Good luck!

Because I tried recovering a Worldcoin wallet after formatting partitions ... I got lots of recovered keys with pywallet but all start with "1"


Title: Re: have a "wallet.dat" but don't know which *coin it belongs to?
Post by: ahmed_bodi on November 25, 2013, 03:45:23 PM
because pywallet is designed for bitcoin


Title: Re: have a "wallet.dat" but don't know which *coin it belongs to?
Post by: Praxis on November 25, 2013, 03:52:32 PM
because pywallet is designed for bitcoin

I see. I thought it could work anyway ... The creator of pywallet told me it should recover all coins, not just bitcoins.

I wish there was some way to recover non-BTC wallets.


Title: Re: have a "wallet.dat" but don't know which *coin it belongs to?
Post by: xan_The_Dragon on November 25, 2013, 07:12:59 PM
what is pywallet?