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okraslayer

2013 wallet.dat question

ok I was finally cleaning out some old pc parts i have had for a while and loaded up a SSD drive. Found some great photos from college and family I had forgot about .

Big thing is this was around the time I first downloaded bitcoin and toyed around with mining. Never really gave it much thought but the old wallet.dat file is on there and no clue if anything was ever mined on it.

So my question is will I now need to download the 500g or more file and to find out or is there another way?

Posted Jan 24, 2022, 3:40 AM UTC

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x-TASER-x•

Before doing anything, copy that file and back it up elsewhere.

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okraslayerOP•

oh I have its no living on a external drive and its the only thing on that drive

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SmoothGoing•

No you don't. Google dumpwallet.

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qbtc•

na you can just db_dump the file if it's unencrypted (or maybe use pywallet if it is)

can also just use the bitcoin console or cli to dump it too

once you have addresses just check in an explorer

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GammingBlitz•

Well!?!?! Are you rich =D

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okraslayerOP•

having issues with it lol

download pywallet and python27 but keep getting syntax errors

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GammingBlitz•

Well I hope you Crack that puppy and there's a few bit coins in there for ya! God speed friend

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okraslayerOP•

Update: First off thank you everyone for the help!

Zilch, zero, nadda.... lots of addresses and such but $0.00 for me. lol

The journey was fun though and nerve racking at the same time.

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