Legend with wallet skills required!

[dr10101]

I am struggling to recover coins from an old wallet and need a pro who eats 2010 Berkeley db's in his sleep, it might just be a lesson on how to identify empty wallets but hopefully will be a few beers.. ideally be nice to understand and fix the wallets issue and open the original file as I am told everything it backwardly compatible?. (not a believer soz!)

There is an obvious need to be trusted and open to share knowledge, I don't just want to dump keys and move on, I would like to understand the deeper history, assuming there is or perhaps was one.

Always happy to share rewards of a successful result but this isn't making anyone rich.

Message me if interested.

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[Charles-Tim]

There is an obvious need to be trusted and open to share knowledge, I don't just want to dump keys and move on, I would like to understand the deeper history, assuming there is or perhaps was one.

If you have the private key to your Bitcoin, you can import it on electrum wallet.

If you have the wallet file, you can use it if not yet corrupted. Experienced member that run Bitcoin core (I assume you were using Bitcoin qt at the time) will be able to illustrate you how you can recover your private keys from the wallet.dat

Message me if interested.

Scammers can message you.

[LoyceV]

an old wallet

Are you talking about a wallet.dat file, as created by bitcoin-qt? Or is this still about the "swf game files?
If it's the former: make a couple of backups, install Bitcoin Core, load the wallet.dat, and see what happens.

[dr10101]

Hey!

My story moved on a bit, now its about a wallet which for both Bitcoin-wallet.exe and pywallet I am getting issues. Neither loads correctly, btc-wallet says unrecognised file format. Not encrypted, but 2500 keys. Tried manually, but not 100% sure the process is correct.

Bitcoin Bounty Hunter already here but can't disclose as may or may not be genuine, can't/ won't verify fully.

Need to find a way to resolve with someone trusted, if already gone would like to discover when/ where.

[dr10101]

I have a few questions:

Where is there a timestamp in a 2010 wallet? position in relation to ... KEY! 036b657921 or 0201010420

I assume the privkey is after 0201010420 ?

Why does a wallet have so many bloody privkeys?

Does the wallet hold coin info like how many, if so what is location ref above.

I have been studying it in hex viewer and isolating/ colouring the repeatable hex values, can see keymeta! information and key! and privkey magic no problem, why wouldn't format be recognised? key things to look for?

[NotATether]

Need to find a way to resolve with someone trusted, if already gone would like to discover when/ where.

The addresses are always stored in your wallet.dat unencrypted so you can check if the bitcoins are gone via a block explorer.

Do you remember if you actually sent bitcoins to this wallet in 2010, or are you unknowingly trying to recover an empty wallet?

[BASE16]

You are in the wrong place.
You won't find the right person on this forum.
Look elsewhere.

I have a few questions:

Where is there a timestamp in a 2010 wallet? position in relation to ... KEY! 036b657921 or 0201010420

I assume the privkey is after 0201010420 ?

Why does a wallet have so many bloody privkeys?

Does the wallet hold coin info like how many, if so what is location ref above.

I have been studying it in hex viewer and isolating/ colouring the repeatable hex values, can see keymeta! information and key! and privkey magic no problem, why wouldn't format be recognised? key things to look for?

You only have to decrypt the mkey.
Then you can use this to decrypt all of the ckey's that are in the wallet.
Use a double sha256(sha256(pubkey)) as the IV to decrypt each ckey.

for more info look in crypter.h and crypter.cpp from core.

[franky1]

ideally be nice to understand and fix the wallets issue and open the original file

its about a wallet which for both Bitcoin-wallet.exe and pywallet I am getting issues. Neither loads correctly

dot exe?
um bitcoin-wallet is not a .exe
seems you are trying to open it like an executable file.. it wont work

rename it to wallet.dat
then use a separate bitcoin program such as core to locate and open the file
trying to access your wallet file by clicking on the wallet file wont do it

[HCP]

dot exe?
um bitcoin-wallet is not a .exe
seems you are trying to open it like an executable file.. it wont work

Yes, it is an executable... and yes it can work... bitcoin-wallet.exe is the "newish" executable that the salvagewallet functionality was moved to as it was no longer deemed relevant to be in the main executables.

bitcoin-wallet is an offline tool for creating and interacting with Bitcoin Core wallet files.
By default bitcoin-wallet will act on wallets in the default mainnet wallet directory in the datadir.
To change the target wallet, use the -datadir, -wallet and -testnet/-regtest arguments.

Currently, it supports 3 commands... create, info and salvage:

Commands:

  create
       Create new wallet file

  info
       Get wallet info

  salvage
       Attempt to recover private keys from a corrupt wallet. Warning:
       'salvage' is experimental.