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Topic
Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: wkeys
by
morbius55
on 23/05/2021, 10:10:38 UTC
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.
It's probably not an old Qt wallet file then. Maybe it's an old exchange wallet? This is a screenshot of part of the wallet file. Thanks for the info.
https://imgur.com/a/gOm4fh8