Topic: Multibit old wallet restore (Read 169 times)

You'll need to wait for it to sync to show your balance etc. It'll probably take a while (minutes if not hours) as last time I ran it (a few weeks ago) there were only like 4 or 5 "peers". It should eventually sync tho. I would however advise you not to try and send a transaction from the app. It's not able to handle native segwit addresses (aka bech32 aka "bc1"), so if you're trying to send to one of those, it won't recognise it as being valid...

Also, fees were a lot lower back in the day... and MultiBit Classic's fee estimation is horribly out of date... as such, it's liable to send with a very low fee which means your transaction will likely get "stuck" (given the current state of the network)

If you don't want to wait, you can goto the "Tools -> Export Private Keys" option and you'll be able to dump out the private keys... although you have to be careful to use the "Do not password protect export file" option... otherwise, you won't actually be able to read the contents of the export file!



Once you have the private keys export, you can copy/paste them into an Electrum wallet (Use: "Import Bitcoin Addresses or Private Keys") option:


Then paste the private keys (should start with a "5" or "K" or "L") into Electrum.

Electrum should within a few moments... and show your transaction history and balance etc. I would recommend that you then create a "Standard" wallet in Electrum with a 12 word seed mnemonic backup and transfer for you bitcoins to that, as the imported wallet will never generate new addresses... and address re-use is a "bad thing"™

another stupid Q
i import the wallet into the multibit program but it shows 0 BTC in the wallet and no transactions yet.

on the left corner there is a green status bar that shows the syncronization of the blockchain with the multibit program. 
The Q is: should i wait for the syncronization to load, or once the wallet was imported must show all the transaction and BTC in the wallet?

Yes i'm trying to move the bitcoins from multibit wallet to electrum. My wallet is classic so it goes like multibit.wallet. 

thank you Not, i found the .exe hope will work.   

Yeah... sadly they used to have the .exe's still available for download. Unfortunately, they were all removed at some point over the last year or so

Do you know if it was Multibit Classic or MultiBit HD? What format is the wallet file name is it: multibit.wallet or mbhd.wallet.aes

I have written some scripts that can extract the private keys from these files: https://github.com/HardCorePawn/multibit_recovery
They require Python2 and some knowledge of working on the command line etc.

The MultiBit dev's also released a tool for extracting private keys that uses NodeJS instead of Python: https://github.com/Multibit-Legacy/read-multibit-wallet-file

Alternatively, if it's a "classic" wallet (multibit.wallet), you could try compiling the source code here: https://github.com/Multibit-Legacy/multibit
If it is an HD wallet (mbhd.wallet.aes), you can still get the .exe's here: https://github.com/Multibit-Legacy/multibit-hd/releases


Failing that, I do have a copy of "MultiBit Classic 0.5.19.exe"... but then you'd have to trust that I didn't doctor it, so this should be your absolute last last final last resort

I believe you are trying to transfer the bitcoins in your Multibit wallet to Electrum, right?

I guess you can use Internet Archive links of the multibit website before it shut down. Start with this link from 2016 http://web.archive.org/web/20160106010221/https://multibit.org/ and work your way backwards if this one doesn't have the .exe saved. It's useless to search forward in time because they all replaced everything on the site with a "closing down" page.

Warning: if you see a multibit exe available for download on some "file downloading" site such as CNET do not download it! There is no way to verify whether they have been tampered with or not.

Hi guys, i found a few days ago my multibit wallet and wanted to transfer it to etherum wallet as per suggested on forum and other sources.

My main problem is that on every thread i read here is a multibit link where should i download the program and extract the address to import in etherum.  The Q i have is if someone has the .exe of the multibit program since i don't know or i can't seams to find the program on the multibit page etc
If someone has the multibit .exe program and want to share it i will appreciated

Many thanks