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Questions about extracting a private key from a wallet, e.g. for the purpose of creating a backup or importing them to another wallet.

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I seem to have the opposite problem of similar posts: I found an old .dat file on a backup drive (seems to be binary), around 90 KB, from 2013 or earlier, and its name tells me that it's a Bitcoin ...
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I have this code: #!/usr/bin/env python3 # pip3 install pycryptodome bsddb3 import os import bsddb3.db as bdb import struct def extract_keys(wallet_path): try: # Open the wallet.dat ...
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I have a Core Lightning node with multiple closed channel outputs, and I don't wish to open new channels with these. For backup reasons and for ease of use of the Bitcoin Core user interface I'd like ...
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I have python script to dump wallet.dat details to json+hex file. It operates with bsddb3 library. There are keys and values. They can be divided into: addresses keys (private keys?) transactions ...
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I use the wallet to generate a receiving address A starting with 3 and temporarily name it "A". I export the private key and temporarily name it "X". I run the command dumpwallet /...
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The exchange requests the beneficiary's VASP. What to indicate?
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If I use the listdescriptors true command, I only receive values like (pkh, sh, tr, wpkh). Did I do something wrong?
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In a library I'm reading, I can export a private key to a WIF, which takes a compressed boolean parameter. It reads: "...False if you want a standard WIF export (the most standard option). True ...
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I have created a wallet, added a descriptors to make it multisig with tr(KI, multi_a(2,pub1,pub2,pub3) command. Now, I want to import this to some UI but since the wallet doesn't have a private key I ...
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Wondering if you can help me guys, I'm new to using bitcoins and recently downloaded Bitcoin Core to my MacBook. I stupidly sent bitcoins to my wallet without realising i had to sync first, but it's ...
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attempting to export private key from bitcoin core wallet with no pass phrase, when i enter the command "dumpprivkey" with my bitcoin address, it says, Only legacy wallets are supported by ...
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I have a problem with my bitcoin wallet recovery process. I have a wallet with thousand of address attached created with RPC method 'getnewaddress'. I would like to have a recovery process for this ...
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I can't create the private key of a legacy address on bitcoin core. When I do the command it writes me that it can only be done to legacy addresses. And my address is legacy. What should I do. Thank ...
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I have a Bitcoin-QT wallet and the client is more than a year out of sycn. It would take years and massive amount of data to get it synced so, this is out of the question. My plan was to move my coins ...
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Is there a way to export private keys from a wallet.dat file using BTCrecover? I've been unsuccessful in achieving this using Bitcoin-qt or pywallet with an older wallet.dat file from 2018.
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