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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: [Bounty: 100 YAC] Corrupted YAC Wallet
by
turtle83
on 05/12/2013, 17:11:19 UTC
Okay, so I'm looking through the wallet.dat with a hex editor, and I've managed to find the Yacoin public address that contains my Yacoin in plaintext. Where exactly is the private key stored? And how would I decrypt it manually?

Edit: Trying to use pywallet now to salvage the private key. What value should I pass to the --otherversion= switch so it looks for Yacoin addresses rather than Bitcoin?

Edit2: Since addresses are base58 encoded and since Yacoin addresses start with an Y, that would be 31, correct? Let's see if this works Smiley

was trying pywallet but no luck.
https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/blob/master/src/base58.h#L279
the otherversion should be 77 based on that but pywallet is still fussing about.
It does dump address and key in some sort of hex but i dunno how to get it into importable format.