Hi there,
Can anybody explain what is meant by bitcoins found in old format wallet and examples of their public keys/private keys. Thanks.
I skimmed through the pages and didn't find any mention of that phrase.
If you're talking about old wallet.dat files, the old ones are not "
HD" (
Hierarchical Deterministic).
Means that every key it generates are random, unrelated to each other and can't be reproduced by a master key.
For the very old ones (
not exclusive to Bitcoin Core), public keys are uncompressed which have 130 characters that starts with '04',
of which WIF Private keys consist of 51characters and starts with '5'.
Examples:
- WIF PrvKey Uncompressed: 5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreAnchuDf
- PubKey Uncompressed: 0479be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798483ada7726a3c 4655da4fbfc0e1108a8fd17b448a68554199c47d08ffb10d4b8
Here is the statement I am curious about:
On March 7, 2014, Mt.Gox Co., Ltd. confirmed that an old-format wallet which was used prior to June 2011 held a balance of approximately 200,000 BTC," the statement said. As reported CNN money -
https://money.cnn.com/2014/03/21/technology/mt-gox-missing-bitcoin/index.html.
Can anyone please help me understand the above article of old-format wallet used prior to June 2011. Thanks