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Re: My own Bitcoin WIF Missing Characters Help
by
Turing0x
on 17/08/2022, 21:18:02 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 console or bitcoin-cli.

to be more specific with you it's not a wallet dump , my few wallets was lost in and the HDD is damaged , however  those are some of the backups in text format i made before in my 2nd HDD .

the format in the txt files follows this :

"addr": " My Bitcoin Address "
"compressed": false,
"encrypted_privkey": " Privatekey "
"hexsec": " dfgdfgfdffhfg" ex.
"label": "",
"pubkey": Pubkey ex: "0000000046556641541"
"reserve": 0,
"sec"
 "secret": " Contains a secret hash

All those Values are given so i have the enc_privkey , hexsec , pubkey , sec ( which is a full privatekey but it refers to another empty wallet address ) , and finally the secret .


Any Help will be appreciated Smiley