Dumping private keys from wallet.dat


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DATE: Feb. 3, 2015, 10:17 p.m.

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  2. Beside that I don't understand your problem with PyWaller, like Eyal suggests, you can use the standard Bitcoin software for this as well, although this method will be a little more time-consuming.
  3. I suggest doing the following for every wallet.dat file you have:
  4. Backup your current wallet.dat file.
  5. Copy the old wallet.dat to your Bitcoin directory.
  6. Open up a terminal and run the bitcoind daemon:
  7. bitcoind -daemon
  8. Retrieve a list of all the addresses in the wallet:
  9. bitcoind listaddressgroupings
  10. For every address you want the private key from, dump it:
  11. bitcoind dumpprivkey <bitcoinaddress>
  12. Stop the daemon before changing the wallet.dat file:
  13. bitcoind stop

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