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Topic: Don:t know how to decode/extract private keys from this wallet. (Read 184 times)

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the file is a txt file "wallet-backup-date.txt"...
My guess is you should try to open it with Bitcoin Wallet on Android. Does that sound familiar?

It was an old Multibit wallet that needed to be decrypted using openssl with my password....
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the file is a txt file "wallet-backup-date.txt"...
My guess is you should try to open it with Bitcoin Wallet on Android. Does that sound familiar?
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Problem is i had several clients back in those days... the file is a txt file "wallet-backup-date.txt"...

To me it seems like base64 code.
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The simpliest probably would be to use the wallet you have used when creating this file.

Is your file a .dat file (e.g. wallet.dat) ? If so, this is a core wallet. You can download the client here: https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/.
Make sure to create several backups of your wallet file before trying to restore.
Install core and copy your wallet.dat file into the data directory of core. Afterwards you can dump the private keys (if you don't want to wait for core to be fully synced) and import them into a lightweight client [1].

If your wallet file is not a .dat file it most probably is an electrum wallet.
If this is the case you can simply (after backing it up!) install electrum [1] and open your walletfile with electrum.

You might need a password to access your coins (if you have set one when creating the wallet).



[1] Electrum: https://electrum.org/#download
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So about a month ago i was able to get the data from a 2016 HD back and found one of my old wallet files but the files seems to be decoded on base 64 (??)
What are the filenames, and what wallet did you use in the past?

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It looks like this:

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You should delete this, just in case!
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So about a month ago i was able to get the data from a 2016 HD back and found one of my old wallet files but the files seems to be decoded on base 64 (??)

It looks like this:

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57YAgS9kfX414VYO+AnDerXs2EQf5x6FNxXcsrsK968emMS7+/etxyJBbzzfn2u1XVc21qr5sinO
lj3Tu4D9nJncjkTDiksUimZWYtSfJM4U86iS/1qfNJtZJC+aK1WdS1Omk3bHAqWuqFX515Om9tVq
qEUwqsCVEeEBW3rTYc+BoeCcoW02zeXIAfHh02gbymsg73WBNOx9El5kq6UlvYJqg2sZhNIrH7pj
8oEJPiPQnvMiZnO5yrHNy7SAilpgVLIHAzB8KpadMfFheGdFJQuaHzKUTDNEMNc90A593d+Mcz0V
nZwblZnPU8rYiTMkOgqm4fz4ctqIPDHIk/40zGjWBcC5w4A1w8AEKovlBT8/Vk1wAvtpWd5ZQo0g
JpQ7LP3mdMc1CpV93QKCLaOfglhq7bvlh8Dv0grtM0txN2gBEh9UjnBvxazS7JLOr+26YUMe4VpK
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9OIa9QPovt1PfJiUIZd4lGL4LKwZCpLO5/a0P1wSNima1xcqNGThRA99JNDMjaLLzoduuLZ0GbDL
irKpHh6a8C892KZoFoDSeVEM14nZTgxyttW9qeav+aWG+81vNuvsQPi3aPJLVNqyHumrGBxWMyTR
RQe2X9avbashFhJsZBHHjUeer1etogKDjTeQvUQefTjh67Xr2xHJCQ6AZFYFunMcTRjHYi6FGJBG
4epc9FLa4fz8MNaqX2TZQtRsUilR1dtB/hZ6U1skAIovmrRx3RPUshbFKaErVokKTaZp+WV6eGcY
yNnFJ4RdhFJVbqlwIMiHILwFJax4dgFGvOyrr9A4hBkixis3vEdS1ofRPZLF25nJEHHUJ6pEsNY4

and so on... i know this is a backup i made but i can't figure out how to start using it again...

Anybody got some tips?
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