Hi, I have been out of the bitcoin loop for a while and recently booted up my old hard drive which had a few coins on it.
My client is 0.3.19 and it is obviously not up to date on the current blockchain. I expected it to start downloading blocks but it has 0 connections currently.
How can I access my coins? Do I need to somehow get my old client to get up to date and then transfer the coins to a newer wallet, or can I throw my wallet.dat file into a newer version of the wallet program?
If the latter case is possible, then which client can I use? I see the following on the about page:
http://imgur.com/Dq9UpLvI know there is something called bitcoin core, is that what I have?
Thank you for any help, it's greatly appreciated!
Edit: I was able to make a backup wallet by doing the following in 2 different command prompts:
bitcoin.exe -server -rpcpassword=temporary
bitcoin-cli.exe -rpcpassword=temporary backupwallet "backupwallet.dat"
I had to get bitcoin-cli.exe from version 12.0 and place it in the daemon folder because using bitcoind was giving me a dll error