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Re: Random wallet.dat files on USB stick
by
tianxie
on 26/03/2020, 09:23:43 UTC
⭐ Merited by bones261 (4) ,keychainX (2)
Found a stack of wallets from 2014, but I have no idea what coins they relate to (the fact that they aren't labelled probably means they are garbage though). Any painless ways of identifying these crypto's from the wallet.dat files alone? 

You simply open them with notepad and search for the string "name"

If the following string starts with 1 and looks like this

1CC3X2gu58d6wXUWMffpuzN9JAfTUWu4Kj

 its a bitcoin. If the first character starts with  L for Litecoin etc. As long as they have transactions. If there is no "name" string then they are most probably empty

For a list of altcoin names you can search the web

/KC