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Re: Lost wallet.dat password help!
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JulioVasquez
on 07/12/2018, 13:01:19 UTC
Is there a reason you don't want to install Bitcoin Core? You wanted "the fastest way", but that's a week ago. Unless your internet provider limits you on data, you could have been done already. It takes just over 200 GB of disk space, and if you're low on space, you can use Prune block storage (under Settings > Options), after which it only takes a few GB.

This is still the fastest method:
3) use core to load the wallet.dat, use the console to list all addresses, import those addresses into an SPV wallet to create a watch-only wallet


Only you westerners have the advantage of enjoying unlimited plans, here in Venezuela you have to pay for each mb.
I want a quick way to read a file, as I dont want to spend weeks of syncing. Anyone here with technical experience, I mean real experience like know how to read a DB format, not just copy&paste github repos.