Not quite sure why you'd automatically jump to the worst assumption. They're 100% mine and were on an old USB I was sorting through. I simply cannot remember the password I used. Many people have been in this exact situation.


Yes my mistake. I got confused because I renamed one of them to .dat to try on BTCRecover. They are indeed just standard files without any extension

Hello,

I have 3 wallet.dat files from 2018 and 2020 and I'm at least 50% sure there's between 1-3 BTC located on one of them. Given that even 0.25 BTC would be life changing for me right now, it would be incredible if I could access these wallets.

I've tried every password I can think of to no avail. This morning I've been looking into BTCRecover and finally got it running, but it's going to take a ridiculous amount of time to brute-force even a 6 character password with the hardware I have, because there's a good chance I used a combination including numbers and special characters in the original password.

Bearing the above in mind, is there someway I can extract the public wallet addresses from these wallet.dat files to know if this is something worth perusing or not? If I could at least find out what the situation was, I could then make an informed decision on the best way to proceed.

I'm 90% sure these are wallet.dat files created by Electrum Bitcoin Wallet. All are password protected (encrypted).

Thank you for time

Sincerely, badape25