camosoul for the love of dog run a dumprivkey on whatever you have left...
I believe he got everything back
I hope so, all the more reason to backup now to paper, and so should everyone else.
Plus, as we've seen it isn't enough to have backups, you need to verify them each time too if possible - I know it's a pain in the arse but it saves grief down the road.
Nobody takes backups seriously until it's too late and they're screwed.
A newbie question - how do you back up to paper? Is the private key stored in plain text? Or is there any app to get it out of wallet.dat?
I have a few digital backups but would not mind the paper as well
This is Backup.
To make it quick and easy, type 'dumpprivkey
' in the wallets' console, and write down (copy / paste to a text editor, public and the according private key) both.
Then print it out, twice, and store each in a different physical location.
Fresh paper wallet.
The nice way would be to grab the DRK address generator, go offline, open the file in web browser, generate new wallet (with qr code, and nice layout), print that out and distribute the your coins across these 'new and fresh' paper wallets. So the coins are nowhere online, just on the papers' cold storage address.
http://paper.darkcoin.io/
Grab the source from git, and create paper wallets offline.
I have a question about this.
If i understand correctly, after the coins in your wallet have been made anonymous, those coins are placed in lots of 'change' addresses.
Does the resulting private key from the 'dumpprivkey
' command still contain _ALL_ your coins? (not literally but after importing it again ofcourse)
No, it wont. First, disable darksend and consolidate all your coins into one address by sending your balance to a new address that you have just created in-wallet. Or pick an existing one, doesn't matter really, as long as everything is in that one pubkey. Then go to the console and type:
walletpassphrase 'your-passphrase' 60 - unlocks wallet for 60 seconds
dumpprivkey 'address you just sent your balance to' - without the quotes
Cut and paste the output (the private key) into a text editor or something, put the address in there too, and then print out 15 copies and hide them under the bed of your fiercest granny and other places. Hide/store them securely (lamination is good for waterproofing) because anyone who gets hold of them can steal your coins by doing what you need to do to import them into another wallet, namely:
importprivkey 'the-private-key' 'label(optional)' - without the quotes at the console in a new wallet somewhere else.
HTH.
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