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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Merits 4 from 2 users
Re: wkeys
by
achow101
on 23/05/2021, 01:05:36 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (2) ,LoyceV (2)
After doing some code archaeology, I am pretty sure that wkey records were never actually used. I am unable to find any point in time where wkey were even able to be written to disk. So it's really odd that you have a wallet file that contains wkeys.

In any case, wkey is supposed to be a private key with some extra metadata. There should be a 4 byte version number, followed by the private key, followed by an 8 byte creation time, followed by an 8 byte expiration time.