I think the op was talking about how to find your private keys for the addresses in your wallet, but meh...
Yes that is what i was going for..just to let everyone know im a total noob with bitcoin and only have jumped on the bandwagon q4 2013....im currently using ubuntu OS for my core .9.1 wallet and i could not for the life of me find my wallet.dat..
i already encrypted my wallet with a passphrase so im assuming even if i was to find the wallet.dat and open it ..that it would not be readable(by human at least
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i have been thinking of creating a new wallet to a partition with a windows os, which would make finding my wallet.dat file easier
for me and opening it before i encrypt the wallet to see the contents. i guess i was wrong with my previous assumptions (^ top of thread)
so would there be any point of wanting to see the contents of the wallet.dat??? i assumed the privkey for each generated address in my wallet would be there..
the cold storage reference was referring to people etching their Privkeys on stone/metal for longterm personal storage , i assumed they ascertained their privkeys from their wallet.dat file.. however i did not know you can create your own privkeys(thanks for links shorena
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~thanks