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Quote from: ? on November 18, 2024, 07:57:16 PM

Hello, so long story short i had a wallet.dat on my hard drive from 2014-2015,
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or something (SQLITE3 BTW), if there's anyone to help with that it'd be great.

Wallets (wallet.dat) created by Bitcoin Core in 2015 or older aren't in "SQLite database" but "Berkeley DB".

In the small chance that your claims are true, the wallet isn't as old as you think
And may even be recent since it's just implemented in v0.21 [v21.0] (but not used by default), probably generated with v23.0 or newer when it became the default wallet type.

Well, that's a different story if the wallet.dat file was from a different Bitcoin client but what else generates a wallet.dat file aside from Bitcoin Core forks that basically follows its development.
It would be great if you can also restore the binaries or executables of the Bitcoin client that you may have used.

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Quote from: ? on November 18, 2024, 07:57:16 PM

Hello, so long story short i had a wallet.dat on my hard drive from 2014-2015, that drive was demolished, 5400 RPM 256gb pretty much beat but i recovered some stuff off of it, including a wallet.dat, i don't really know how much it has i have never mined and i don't recall buying but i used to trade on it at that time so there might be something in it still, IDK, like 10-15 BTC perhaps.

First of all, make several backup of that wallet.dat file and even RAW copy of that HDD. Anyway, have you tried opening that wallet.dat file using Bitcoin Core software?

Quote from: ? on November 18, 2024, 07:57:16 PM

however, this wallet if unlocked could change lives, i'm looking for someone to help me on this, perhaps contact me, tell me how to hunt from within the TXT or if there's like a compiled, built app to extract the private keys or something, i tried putting it into ELECTRUM and it said that the format is wrong or something (SQLITE3 BTW), if there's anyone to help with that it'd be great.

Electrum doesn't support opening wallet.dat file.

Quote from: ? on November 18, 2024, 07:57:16 PM

EDIT: I'm running windows 10 on this Laptop, but i have no f*cking idea how Python even works, i downloaded and watched a couple a vids and the command prompt keeps closing as soon as i open it

If it happened when you run a file / script by double-clicking on Windows Explorer, you should try running it by opening command prompt first.

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Hello, so long story short i had a wallet.dat on my hard drive from 2014-2015, that drive was demolished, 5400 RPM 256gb pretty much beat but i recovered some stuff off of it, including a wallet.dat, i don't really know how much it has i have never mined and i don't recall buying but i used to trade on it at that time so there might be something in it still, IDK, like 10-15 BTC perhaps.

I've been trying my *ss off to get into pywallet and so on and i cannot even get python to work correctly, my head is spinning from the tech stuff, i'm no techie myself, i have a CoreI7 3rd gen till this day so that tells you enough that i am NOT the tech person.

however, this wallet if unlocked could change lives, i'm looking for someone to help me on this, perhaps contact me, tell me how to hunt from within the TXT or if there's like a compiled, built app to extract the private keys or something, i tried putting it into ELECTRUM and it said that the format is wrong or something (SQLITE3 BTW), if there's anyone to help with that it'd be great.

Thanks!

EDIT: I'm running windows 10 on this Laptop, but i have no f*cking idea how Python even works, i downloaded and watched a couple a vids and the command prompt keeps closing as soon as i open it

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