That's right, but it remains easiest website to use.
I'm just very careful with it since I saw no Forks mentioned at all for an address that mined 50 Bitcoins in the early days, and showed up as empty on this site. One could argue that's correct, as the address didn't receive it but the pubkey did, but if you overlook it because of that, that's a $25k mistake. 
Topic: How to quickly check balance on old wallet files? (Read 119 times)
If you want to check whether the address contain forked coin, you can use multi-chain block explorer (such as https://blockchair.com/) although you must an address at a time.
As far as I know, you'll also need to convert several of the addresses to it's new Fork-format before you can find them.It depends on each forked coin. For example, BCH let you use both legacy (starts with 1... or 3...) and CashAddr format (starts with q... or p...) interchangeable. The community/developer even offer converter tool on https://cashaddr.bitcoincash.org/.
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https://findmycoins.ninja/ created specifically to find amount forked coin, but it will only show result when the address have 20 TX or less.
That site is tricky, because it's incomplete. Send to pubkey transactions aren't shown (which means you could overlook very valuable Forkcoins), and there might be more limitations that I don't know of. This site can be helpful, but don't rely on it.That's right, but it remains easiest website to use.
If you want to check whether the address contain forked coin, you can use multi-chain block explorer (such as https://blockchair.com/) although you must an address at a time.
As far as I know, you'll also need to convert several of the addresses to it's new Fork-format before you can find them.Quote
https://findmycoins.ninja/ created specifically to find amount forked coin, but it will only show result when the address have 20 TX or less.
That site is tricky, because it's incomplete. Send to pubkey transactions aren't shown (which means you could overlook very valuable Forkcoins), and there might be more limitations that I don't know of. This site can be helpful, but don't rely on it.
If you want to check whether the address contain forked coin, you can use multi-chain block explorer (such as https://blockchair.com/) although you must an address at a time. https://findmycoins.ninja/ created specifically to find amount forked coin, but it will only show result when the address have 20 TX or less.
If you don't know how to use Bitcoin Core, then the easiest answer is to export the keys and import them into Electrum. If you can't export them, for whatever reason, then just let it sync, as told by LoyceV. Trying to figure out a faster solution will take longer than just letting it sync.
Because OP did not know whether those wallet files have bitcoins, it's not possible that OP knows what addresses have bitcoins.This means he need to use the command dumpwallet with command line.
Code:
dumpwallet "[walletdirectory]/wallet.txt"
Why not tell us first what wallet software did you use to generate these "bunch of old wallet files"?
And tell us about the year when was these wallets created?
If those wallets were created before August 2017, some of your wallets with BTC balances during the hard fork should contain Bitcoin cash.
My suggestion instead of loading all wallet files into your bit pin core or any wallet software. I recommend do it on an offline PC for safety purposes and then copy all addresses and transfer them to an online PC then check them using this tool below.
- https://bitcoindata.science/bitcoin-balance-check
And tell us about the year when was these wallets created?
If those wallets were created before August 2017, some of your wallets with BTC balances during the hard fork should contain Bitcoin cash.
My suggestion instead of loading all wallet files into your bit pin core or any wallet software. I recommend do it on an offline PC for safety purposes and then copy all addresses and transfer them to an online PC then check them using this tool below.
- https://bitcoindata.science/bitcoin-balance-check
Thanks for mentioning my tool. I made it because I always needed something like that to control my addresses balance of different wallets.
Anyway all data came from mempool.space, a block explorer. Any block explorer can do the job! No need to download any app
If you don't know how to use Bitcoin Core, then the easiest answer is to export the keys and import them into Electrum. If you can't export them, for whatever reason, then just let it sync, as told by LoyceV. Trying to figure out a faster solution will take longer than just letting it sync.
Why not tell us first what wallet software did you use to generate these "bunch of old wallet files"?
And tell us about the year when was these wallets created?
If those wallets were created before August 2017, some of your wallets with BTC balances during the hard fork should contain Bitcoin cash.
My suggestion instead of loading all wallet files into your bitcoin core or any wallet software. I recommend do it on an offline PC for safety purposes and then copy all addresses and transfer them to an online PC then check them using this tool below.
- https://bitcoindata.science/bitcoin-balance-check
And tell us about the year when was these wallets created?
If those wallets were created before August 2017, some of your wallets with BTC balances during the hard fork should contain Bitcoin cash.
My suggestion instead of loading all wallet files into your bitcoin core or any wallet software. I recommend do it on an offline PC for safety purposes and then copy all addresses and transfer them to an online PC then check them using this tool below.
- https://bitcoindata.science/bitcoin-balance-check
What is the easiest and fastest way to check their balance?
I'm going to ignore the "fastest" and answer the "easiest" question: install Bitcoin Core, load all wallets, then let it sync. Depending on your hardware this may take a day (or longer). Once done, check the balances.Why not tell us first what wallet software did you use to generate these "bunch of old wallet files"?
Good point. Somehow I totally assumed it's Bitcoin Core.
Hello,
I have a bunch of old wallet files on my computer. These are most likely empty or contain some Bitcoin dust. What is the easiest and fastest way to check their balance? Also, is there any way to check whether this dust (if available) also generated some $ on forks like Bitcoin Cash?
I have a bunch of old wallet files on my computer. These are most likely empty or contain some Bitcoin dust. What is the easiest and fastest way to check their balance? Also, is there any way to check whether this dust (if available) also generated some $ on forks like Bitcoin Cash?
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