Topic: Whats is the fastest way to open a wallet.dat ?? - Noobie Question :/ (Read 13744 times)

Quote from: Tarantino on July 20, 2015, 08:29:06 AM

Quote from: saddambitcoin on July 20, 2015, 07:40:40 AM

You could open up a blockchain.info wallet and import the wallet.dat there, nice and quick.

Do you mean here sir :

https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet

and do have to register first please answer thank you.

Why would you not want to sign up? Takes a minute. If you don't want to download the blockchain look at getting a lite weight client as they're instant.

yEP but i get Connection Refused!!

Yes, bc.i no longer offers this service.

Your fastest way would by pywallet -> https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet

An easy way would be to install and sync bitcoin core.

Somewhere in between would be to install bitcoin core, but do not let it sync and export the private keys into a different wallet and send the coins from there. Keep in mind though, if someone else has access to the private keys because you have not been careful they could spend the coins instead of you.

Do you mean blockchain no longer support wallet importing ? please confirm this sir, thank you

Yes, the above link no longer works. The site is still in place, but it does not accept wallet.dat files any longer. AFAIK they never bothered to remove the site.

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Quote from: shorena on July 20, 2015, 10:49:35 AM

Quote from: Tarantino on July 20, 2015, 08:29:06 AM

Quote from: saddambitcoin on July 20, 2015, 07:40:40 AM

You could open up a blockchain.info wallet and import the wallet.dat there, nice and quick.

Do you mean here sir :

https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet

and do have to register first please answer thank you.

Why would you not want to sign up? Takes a minute. If you don't want to download the blockchain look at getting a lite weight client as they're instant.

yEP but i get Connection Refused!!

Yes, bc.i no longer offers this service.

Your fastest way would by pywallet -> https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet

An easy way would be to install and sync bitcoin core.

Somewhere in between would be to install bitcoin core, but do not let it sync and export the private keys into a different wallet and send the coins from there. Keep in mind though, if someone else has access to the private keys because you have not been careful they could spend the coins instead of you.

Do you mean blockchain no longer support wallet importing ? please confirm this sir, thank you

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No I dont escrow anymore.

Quote from: Tarantino on July 20, 2015, 08:29:06 AM

Quote from: saddambitcoin on July 20, 2015, 07:40:40 AM

You could open up a blockchain.info wallet and import the wallet.dat there, nice and quick.

Do you mean here sir :

https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet

and do have to register first please answer thank you.

Why would you not want to sign up? Takes a minute. If you don't want to download the blockchain look at getting a lite weight client as they're instant.

yEP but i get Connection Refused!!

Yes, bc.i no longer offers this service.

Your fastest way would by pywallet -> https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet

An easy way would be to install and sync bitcoin core.

Somewhere in between would be to install bitcoin core, but do not let it sync and export the private keys into a different wallet and send the coins from there. Keep in mind though, if someone else has access to the private keys because you have not been careful they could spend the coins instead of you.

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Quote from: runback on July 20, 2015, 09:32:54 AM

Quote from: Amph on July 20, 2015, 09:28:35 AM

If a hacker found a "wallet.dat" on a victim's PC, would he ask a question like that if he was rather unexperienced with bitcoins?

can an hackers be an experience with bitcoin? or anything related IT in general? i don't think so

this is more of a legit question or a spamming one to increase post count for selling account later

OP can simply use a light client to do what he want to do

actually i want to ask something interesting, there is a way to extract private keys from a wallet.dat or any other format, without running a client(any client)?

light client ? please explaine more .

It doesn't store the blockchain on your computer.

Bitcoin-qt downloads the blockchain to your computer and you become a node thus increasing the strength of BTC.

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Quote from: runback on July 20, 2015, 09:32:54 AM

If a hacker found a "wallet.dat" on a victim's PC, would he ask a question like that if he was rather unexperienced with bitcoins?

If he doesn't have the passphrase he ain't getting shit.

If you lose your passphrase you are super screwed, legit they are gone forever if your passphrase is over 10chars, bye bye coins.. I've lost 700 000 bits cause I'm dumb.

OP, youtube how to get your private key from a wallet.dat file, you don't need to download the blockchain to get it. Your private key is just a string of characters 58 long.

Take this "key" go to import on blockchain.info, paste it there and boom.

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Just writing some code

light client ? please explaine more .

SPV Clients like MultiBit or Electrum don't need to download the whole blockchain.

You can use a tool like pywallet to extract the private keys and import them into another wallet. Or you can import it into blockchain.info and send the Bitcoin from there to another wallet.

runback

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Quote from: Amph on July 20, 2015, 09:28:35 AM

If a hacker found a "wallet.dat" on a victim's PC, would he ask a question like that if he was rather unexperienced with bitcoins?

can an hackers be an experience with bitcoin? or anything related IT in general? i don't think so

this is more of a legit question or a spamming one to increase post count for selling account later

OP can simply use a light client to do what he want to do

actually i want to ask something interesting, there is a way to extract private keys from a wallet.dat or any other format, without running a client(any client)?

light client ? please explaine more .

Amph

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If a hacker found a "wallet.dat" on a victim's PC, would he ask a question like that if he was rather unexperienced with bitcoins?

can an hackers be an experience with bitcoin? or anything related IT in general? i don't think so

this is more of a legit question or a spamming one to increase post count for selling account later

OP can simply use a light client to do what he want to do

actually i want to ask something interesting, there is a way to extract private keys from a wallet.dat or any other format, without running a client(any client)?

runback

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Quote from: spazzdla on July 20, 2015, 08:41:34 AM

If a hacker found a "wallet.dat" on a victim's PC, would he ask a question like that if he was rather unexperienced with bitcoins?

Who said im a hacker ? Huh

ransomer

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If a hacker found a "wallet.dat" on a victim's PC, would he ask a question like that if he was rather unexperienced with bitcoins?

runback

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Quote from: Tarantino on July 20, 2015, 08:29:06 AM

Quote from: saddambitcoin on July 20, 2015, 07:40:40 AM

You could open up a blockchain.info wallet and import the wallet.dat there, nice and quick.

Do you mean here sir :

https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet

and do have to register first please answer thank you.

Why would you not want to sign up? Takes a minute. If you don't want to download the blockchain look at getting a lite weight client as they're instant.

yEP but i get Connection Refused!!

Try electrium.

You are going to have to import your private key from the wallet.dat file if you have BTC on it though..

You are going to have to import your private key from the wallet.dat , i dont understand this part .

spazzdla

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Quote from: Tarantino on July 20, 2015, 08:29:06 AM

Quote from: saddambitcoin on July 20, 2015, 07:40:40 AM

You could open up a blockchain.info wallet and import the wallet.dat there, nice and quick.

Do you mean here sir :

https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet

and do have to register first please answer thank you.

Why would you not want to sign up? Takes a minute. If you don't want to download the blockchain look at getting a lite weight client as they're instant.

yEP but i get Connection Refused!!

Try electrium.

You are going to have to import your private key from the wallet.dat file if you have BTC on it though..

runback

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Quote from: Tarantino on July 20, 2015, 08:29:06 AM

Quote from: saddambitcoin on July 20, 2015, 07:40:40 AM

You could open up a blockchain.info wallet and import the wallet.dat there, nice and quick.

Do you mean here sir :

https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet

and do have to register first please answer thank you.

Why would you not want to sign up? Takes a minute. If you don't want to download the blockchain look at getting a lite weight client as they're instant.

yEP but i get Connection Refused!!

Tarantino

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Quote from: saddambitcoin on July 20, 2015, 07:40:40 AM

You could open up a blockchain.info wallet and import the wallet.dat there, nice and quick.

Do you mean here sir :

https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet

and do have to register first please answer thank you.

Why would you not want to sign up? Takes a minute. If you don't want to download the blockchain look at getting a lite weight client as they're instant.

harrymmmm

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Quote from: runback on July 20, 2015, 08:18:43 AM

At blockchain i get this : Connection Refused !!! Embarrassed

Works for me ...

runback

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Quote from: Lauda on July 20, 2015, 07:52:59 AM

Do you mean here sir :
https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet

and do have to register first please answer thank you.

Even though I do not recommend online wallets, this is a way for you to do it. I think that you could import it before registering although I think that registering will be needed after.
You could also go to a friend who uses Bitcoin and just put your wallet.dat into his Bitcoin directory and do what you want to do.
40GB isn't really much data these days, with video gaming and movies being 50+GB.

At blockchain i get this : Connection Refused !!! Embarrassed

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