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Re: My own Bitcoin WIF Missing Characters Help
by
Cricktor
on 17/08/2022, 21:01:19 UTC
You need to be more specific without disclosing sensitive information of your wallet like private keys and such.

What kind of wallet is this?
What kind of dump of the wallet do you have?

If it is a Bitcoin Core HD wallet and you see as "secret" the private key that is used as seed for the HD wallet, then I think it should be possible to recreate your wallet's keys with that.
If you have a Bitcoin Core wallet dump with lots of private keys in the dump then you can import those private keys e.g. in an Electrum wallet (in my opinion the import is easier with Electrum than with Bitcoin Core itself) and see if you find any of your coins.

It's quite some time ago that I did some experiments to recover a Bitcoin Core HD wallet by using the dumped HD key from the donor wallet dump, but I don't remember the results unfortunately, sorry. Only I remember is that I had some trouble, but that might have been due to lack of knowledge with proper command usage for Bitcoin Core concole or bitcoin-cli.