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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: I need help restore my wallet.dat on: August 08, 2019, 02:12:49 AM
this is giving me nightmare sigh, I hope it's not hacked, because I dunno everything else in my life is safe now....
2  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: I need help restore my wallet.dat on: August 08, 2019, 01:15:26 AM
Quote from: wwzsocki on August 08, 2019, 01:03:44 AM
Quote from: owenzane on August 08, 2019, 12:59:17 AM
... if I imported my wallet.dat correctly in the first place

This should be easy to check if this dat.file is the correct old one because there should be a creation date.

It should be matching the time you created this broken wallet or at least the last backup if I understand it correctly.

Do you have this error message from the broken Core wallet in the first place? I think we should start from this.

after rescanning the creation date is today

the last transaction I have is sending bitcoin from bitcoin core, so the last address from transaction is a sending address

which means the last receiving address is a spent transaction
3  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: I need help restore my wallet.dat on: August 08, 2019, 12:59:17 AM
Quote from: wwzsocki on August 08, 2019, 12:50:00 AM
Quote from: owenzane on August 07, 2019, 11:56:46 PM
...I copied and pasted the addresses from "transactions" on my bitcoin core to that site, the final balance says 0...

This is not good because it means that this wallet address is empty. Bitcoins don't disappear and there are only three possibilities now.

You have spent them by yourself and forget about it, somebody hacked dat.file and transferred Bitcoins, this is the wrong address.

The only way to check this now is to sync fully the new installation of Bitcoin Core wallet with the old dat.file and look in the transactions history to find out what really happened.

TBH it should be visible on explorer how the BTC were moved in and out from the address if you have the correct one of course.


I have transaction history in my new bitcoin core right now, the last transaction was my transaction from last year, The addresses I pasted were receiving addresses from each transactions. It might not be the correct addresses though, Idk if I imported my wallet.dat correctly in the first place

also before I deleted my old bitcoin core the balance was correct (maybe it's because it's not updated)
4  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: I need help restore my wallet.dat on: August 07, 2019, 11:56:46 PM
Quote from: Stedsm on August 07, 2019, 11:32:46 PM
Quote from: owenzane on August 07, 2019, 11:18:42 PM
Quote from: jackg on August 07, 2019, 11:09:57 PM
Whne you open your client, look in the bottom right and see if it has the HD logo at the bottom? If not there might be a problem in recovering your funds, also if there is and you added a password (after the backup) there might also be an issue recovering your funds. If you still have the old hard drive there are ways to restore the wallet file from that if it hasn't been overwritten but it'll probably be better to wait for it to sync to see if the funds are there.

(Ignore the part above about batch files, it's much faster to sync directly now for almost all cases).

I copied the wallet.dat file to an email last year, the file is only around 160 kb

Just for your awareness, please don't save these important things like your wallet.dat file over an email or cloud, you'll have full vulnerability of losing your BTC by getting your email hacked and wallet.dat file extracted as well as BTC stolen.

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the hd logo is on the bitcoin core I just installed, but the screen says 0 btc even after I pasted my old wallet.dat to the folder, seems like I have to sync it first to find out, I don't remember if I added a password(very unlikely)

I'll sync it tomorrow and probably will find out in 5 days whether it's there, if there is a faster way to retrieve the fund let me know though

You'll have to sync it till the time of Blockchain when you stored them in that wallet and you're fine to check whether they're still there or not. Don't worry, they won't be gone if they're untouched and your email was fine during this whole year. To my knowledge, if your wallet is syncing then I believe you didn't set a password because it asks you one if you've put it and you're using an old password-protected wallet.dat file.

On a side note, don't you remember the address on which you had your coins? It's simple to check whether they're still there or not by visiting the BTC Blockchain explorer here - https://www.blockchain.com/explorer and check with the address.

I copied and pasted the addresses from "transactions" on my bitcoin core to that site, the final balance says 0...

there are no receiving addresses under "file" btw
5  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: I need help restore my wallet.dat on: August 07, 2019, 11:18:42 PM
Quote from: jackg on August 07, 2019, 11:09:57 PM
Whne you open your client, look in the bottom right and see if it has the HD logo at the bottom? If not there might be a problem in recovering your funds, also if there is and you added a password (after the backup) there might also be an issue recovering your funds. If you still have the old hard drive there are ways to restore the wallet file from that if it hasn't been overwritten but it'll probably be better to wait for it to sync to see if the funds are there.

(Ignore the part above about batch files, it's much faster to sync directly now for almost all cases).

I copied the wallet.dat file to an email last year, the file is only around 160 kb

the hd logo is on the bitcoin core I just installed, but the screen says 0 btc even after I pasted my old wallet.dat to the folder, seems like I have to sync it first to find out, I don't remember if I added a password(very unlikely)

I'll sync it tomorrow and probably will find out in 5 days whether it's there, if there is a faster way to retrieve the fund let me know though
6  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / I need help restore my wallet.dat on: August 07, 2019, 10:49:47 PM
I need help, I have 0.19 bitcoin in my bitcoin core wallet stored over a year ago. I just reopened bitcoin core today after a year or so, after syncing the blockchain for a while it closed with an error code. and the error code won't go away and I can't open my bitcoin core. So I deleted the whole thing with all the data. Last year I copy and pasted my wallet.dat file to somewhere safe. I still have the old wallet.dat file without the name changed or anything it's only like a little over 150kb which is weird. I have installed a new version of bitcoin core. I copied the wallet.dat file (that has bitcoin on it) I have to the newly installed bitcoin core. Is my bitcoin still gonna be there? I wouldn't know since I haven't sync the blockchain, it takes 250 gb to sync it and I don't have the space so I'm buying a usb hard drive first but I'm really worried if my bitcoin is all gone.
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