Still holding Blazecoin in an original wallet? Your coins are still yours. Blazecoin never restarted or swapped chains. The network running today is the same chain that started in May 2014; version 2 is a new node and wallet built on Bitcoin Core 28, not a new coin. Every block since 2014 is still there, so any BLZ in an old wallet.dat is still on the chain and can be moved with its original keys.
The old wallet software is too old to talk to the current network, which is why an original wallet no longer syncs. To get your coins back into a working wallet:
- Back up first. Copy your old wallet.dat somewhere safe before you try anything.[/*]
- Get the private key for each address from the old wallet's debug console with dumpprivkey <your address> (unlock it first if it is encrypted).[/*]
- Sweep it into a current wallet. The Blazecoin lite wallet (Android or web) has a "Sweep an old key" page that moves everything on that key to a new address in your wallet.[/*]
Once the coins are in a current wallet you can also move them to a post-quantum (BQ...) address, which has been live on mainnet since block 4,250,000.
Current downloads, with checksums:
Blazecoin wallet releases on GitHub Please be careful: nobody from the project will ever ask for your private key, your wallet.dat or your recovery phrase. Never paste a key into a website or send it to anyone, whoever they say they
are. A key typed into your own wallet's sweep page is the only safe use for it.
If you get stuck, reply here or ask in the community channels and we will help.
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