Thank you @ LoyceMobile

okay, I sent 50 btc on 8/30/2021, fyi.  
sent 5 btc on 1/1 (as a test to myself to make sure I was not tripping)  LOL

As I discovered this on an old hard drive from a move I made.  I thought I may have 5 BTC on it.

I've done very well, and don't mean to be greedy, but if there is 50 btc of gold/cash out there I might as well...

Thanks. Seriously, to both of you.   Long day so I can re-write this tomorrow if it is not clear.

Bitcoin cash
bitcoin gold
bitcoin SV

Those are what I am after.

There are 2 different wallets.

1 with 5 BTC I got from signing up with bitcoin core-qt in 2010 (yes I am lucky)
and 50 BTC I got from signing up with bitcoin core-qt in 2010 that I MINED.


Okay, let me clarify to NeuroticFish.

I got the transaction ID from the 5 coins I got when I signed up at Bitcoin Core QT back in 2010.  I also had dumb luck and mined 50 BTC.

I went into bitcoin core-qt transaction log, grabbed the info, went to the console, and did a dump of the private key.  I then was able to move 5 bit coin cash into Exodus
I was also able to to do  the same for gold, but not Bitcoin SV

https://i.imgur.com/eXSZLEx.png   <--screenshot of SUCCESSFUL transaction for bitcoin cash from the 5 BTC I received for free
https://i.imgur.com/uJsQBEt.png  <--screenshot of SUCCESSFUL transaction for bitcoin gold  from the 5 BTC I received for free
https://i.imgur.com/okvlgcV.png <--screenshot when I try to *** unsuccessful*** transaction for bitcoin SV from the 5 BTC I received for free


I get this error when I get the private key from the "mined coins" (back from 2010)
for bitcoin cash, and bitcoin gold, and then this error for bitcoin SV

bitcoin cash  https://i.imgur.com/utCXWSx.png    - Only pubkeyhash inputs supported right now
bitcoin gold https://i.imgur.com/utCXWSx.png     Only pubkeyhash inputs supported right now   SAME error as above

bitcoin SV   https://i.imgur.com/rYQb1Vf.png    SEEMS positive that I just need to wait until I have some BSV to pay for the transfer?

If I should use another wallet, please advise.

Thank you.


There are 50 of each of those I can claim. 

I had the bitcoin address since 2010. 

Okay, long story short i discovered a wallet where I had mined some BTC back many years ago.

I am now working to get the private keys out of MINED wallet. 

When I signed up (many years ago, 2010) I got 5 BTC for just signing up.  Yes, you can all hate me. 

I was able to extract the private key in bitcoin core-qt and thru the console get the private key and import it into exodus wallet. (from the btc that was sent to me)

Transaction log showing the 50 BTC.      (I had an extremely old wallet, and sent some to myself which may have created new addresses)

https://i.imgur.com/8YfF9pW.png

When I do this for the other amount of BTC that I mined, I get this error.

https://i.imgur.com/HIdCEeC.png   ERROR I get in Exodus

Is there another wallet I should try.  When I extracted the private key from the "Received transaction" it worked fine to claim it in exodus

Many thanks, and all that.

Sounds good. Thank you for all the help. Will report back after have had a chance to try these.

Answers to the questions:

Do you happen to have either the transaction number, the sending address or the receiving address of the big transfer? Yes, we have all 3. We are able to view the address in python, so we were not hacked (that was our original fear).

"Also I'm confused with this sentence of yours
Are you talking about the same wallet file?
As I wrote above, one wallet has exactly one unique password for all the keys
And you say that you were 'able to access the original small change', so that would mean you know the wallet password"

I think we actually ended up with 2 different wallet files. When the wallet was opened on Jan 1 of this year there was a small amount at one address within the wallet and a larger amount at another address within the wallet. I believe it forked once transactions began being made.


When was the wallet created? Encrypted? Created a few years ago. Encrypted January 2021
What is your bitcoin-core version? When encrypted on Jan 1, 2021 was using most recent core version. However, changed to 0.17 last week to correct the error "
"Can't generate a change address key. No keys in the internal keypool and can't generate any keys." that we were having with the smaller amount of BTC.
What is your OS, Windows or Linux? Windows


Here is the error we get in python (version 2.7) with privkey info removed:

The wallet is encrypted but no passphrase is used
Version mismatch (must be <= 81000)
[
    {
        "addr": "1Hxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "compressed": false,
        "encrypted_privkey": "xxxxxx",
        "pubkey": "04xxxxxxxxxxx",
        "reserve": 1
    }
]

Thank you for your thorough response. We will try all of these and be in touch.

Thank you for your response. Yes, the password was set in Core QT.

The issue is that the password that was set worked to access the smaller amount within the wallet, but not for the larger amount in the wallet. But it wasn't changed in between accessing them. We have both tried it as well as my husband's business partner tried it for us just in case we were typing it wrong. We continue to be able to type this password in to access the smaller amount.

Thank you for the previous help. So here is the issue now with a bit of a timeline. Of note, this all took place within Bitcoin Core QT

1/1/2021 -

• My husband opened the wallet and it had all the BTC in it. Some of the BTC was what he mined a few years ago and some of it was given to him as a promotion for signing up with the software at the time. This is important in that they were at different addresses within the wallet.
• He put a password on the wallet and made copies. He sent the password to me and took pictures of it.
• He then sent a couple dollars worth of BTC to a friend to test the wallet.
• When he sent the test it came out of the address that had the smaller amount of BTC. (The larger amount he had mined was still at the other address.) When he sent the test there was change created/sent back to a new address within the wallet.
  

1/7/2021 -

• My husband sends one more small test to an Exodus wallet we own. In order to send this he would have had to have entered the password created on 1/1/2021.
• Change is given since he did not send the entire amount of bitcoin in the wallet. It goes to a new address within the wallet. This is where we freaked out thinking that we had been hacked as the entire amount of BTC was suddenly shown as being transferred out of the wallet. However, according to @achow101 we simply received the change back from the transaction. Now came trying to access that information
• The password that had been previously set on the wallet no longer worked for the larger amount received as change on 1/7.

1/9/2021 -

• We opened the wallet back up and were able to access the original small amount from 1/1 that had been received back as change. We were able to use the password that had been created on 1/1/2021
• We were unable to use the password created on 1/1/2021 to access the larger amount that had been received back as change on 1/7. We have tried multiple combinations of passwords since. My husband does not recall changing the password. If he had, he would have written it down, taken a picture or something. We have done the Python method, but since the password isn't working we can't access the private keys.

Any further advice on what might have happened? Is it possible that the older version of our wallet being used in Bitcoin Core QT created its own encryption when the change was received to the new address?

An additional issue we are having is that when we try to send the smaller amount to an Exodus wallet so that we can get it out of Bitcoin Core QT we get the following errors:

"Can't generate a change address key. No keys in the internal keypool and can't generate any keys.

Okay, thank you so much for the help. We were able to locate the key on the computer!

Now comes the second part of the issue. The password is not working. The password was used on Friday to send a test transaction to himself.
I have a picture of the wallet password sent via WhatsApp (from him to me) and it written down.

But he can't send any bitcoin at all from it even though the correct amount is now showing.

As of note:  When he entered the password he put as an example

horse123
hosre123

and sent that as a picture.  However, he must have re-typed it so it would go thru, or bitcoin-qt didn't flag it.  He did send a transaction
after that password so now we are lost.  Is it possible the password got corrupted or something?

 

My husband did some BTC mining a few years back and had a wallet on a computer that went bad.   He took the hard drive out to save it and later thought maybe he could find some.

We recently moved and found the hard drive of this computer that had the wallet on it.  When we accessed the wallet we found a few bitcoin and decided we needed to secure it asap with all that is going on with bitcoin these days. We made multiple copies and ordered a nanoledger...which is yet to arrive.

In the meantime, my husband sends a couple bucks worth of BTC to a friend to ensure the wallet is accurate.   It worked. Friday he buys a tiny bit of bitcoin and receives it to his wallet on the desktop at office.  At this time the amount on the wallet is still the same. (His office computer ledger is up to date).

He then gives me the backup of the wallet and has me download bitcoin core-qt to my computer so that we can monitor it at home vs in his self-employed office.  I start downloading the blockchain last week.  Super slow of course.  I load up the wallet in the meantime. It shows the same amount as my husband's computer had shown. Friday night my computer finishes syncing the core program up and it shows a *2 transactions* from the day before with all of our BTC being transferred out. Neither of us did this and no one else had access to the computer. We have done malware scans with no results. Teamviewer was on my computer and on his, but not open. When we follow the trail to see where the BTC went it is just sitting in a wallet with no other crypto but our amount. I would think if it were hackers they would have split it off by now and moved it elsewhere.

Also, there was no password, I guess, on the wallet at my house...didn't think about that.  My husband's work computer had a password.  Written down.  It doesn't show the change, but he can't access it now because the password doesn't work.

Antivirus:
- windows defender
- malwarebytes on office computer and home lapton ran and showed nothing
- mcafee

Is there a chance it is a corrupted wallet vs a hack? Is there anyway for us to get it? Help please. (A sleep deprived mom and wife trying to help out).:-)