wallet.dat help

[papes11]

So I've found an old wallet that looks promising of mine but i cant seem to get the NEWEST qt up. I've tried to come on my other account but cant get in it but i could really use some help with the old wallet.dat file. https://imgur.com/a/HpNo0aD

[papes11]

the message is urgent: alert key compromised upgrade required

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Get the link to newest Bitcoin core at the top. Latest Bitcoin core release 0.20.0.

Did you buy the wallet file? Buying it meant you was scammed. Don't use wallet recovery service and be scammed again.

If it is yours, copy and backup to multiple files before you do anything next. It is a fortune.

[papes11]

absolutely not, its been sitting on a hard drive. i load it up on the old BITcoin QT and it shows all of this? but the new one it shows nothing

https://imgur.com/a/U89XcCE

What are your thoughts?

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

You need to sync your wallet before it shows correct balance (amount of your Bitcoin left in that wallet). She it is fully synced, ? will disappear. Or it can be Bitcoin you mined from orphan blocks.

Anyway, make some backups first.

If you still get access to wallet (no passphrase protection?) and addresses, copy some of them to check on block explorer and find out it is from orphan block. If your check results actually show balance, you need to fully sync your wallet, with the newest version of Bitcoin core.

[papes11]

Wallet is backed up trust me. On the New "Core" i cant see anything but when i go back and open the old BTC wallet i see all the transactions and everything and its all correct from what i remember... Should i just let it sync? i don't see anything at all on this Core but again on the old one i can see every transaction

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

I don't know. Randomly choose on address and check with explorer.

List of Bitcoin block explorers

I don't know about old version of Bitcoin core but you can try with console.

dumpprivkey address

Pick one of address you check with block explorer and see balance, use the dumpprivkey to get its private key.
[overview] Recover Bitcoin from any old storage format

If you get private key from Bitcoin Core, you can sweep it to Electrum. It saves time because with Electrum, your wallet will be synced in minutes.
How to add a Bitcoin address to Electrum / difference sweep and import priv. key

[papes11]

Seems like it might have been a bunch of doge coin