Quote from: nc50lc on Today at 04:36:43 AM

Quote from: axloisio on October 15, 2024, 08:39:10 PM

Does anyone have the bitcoin wallet file from early 2010? -snip-

Take note that the wallet.dat file should be an intact-unloaded backup or newly created by those old versions.
An old backup that was loaded to some newer version could had been upgraded to that version's format.
(although nothing much have changed on an old/new legacy wallet's "magic numbers" appended to the private keys)

If you failed to get one, you can create it yourself:
Download the source from bitcoin core's github repo old archive here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tags?after=v0.2.11
Build it and create a wallet.

If you're unable to build it yourself, i have started this project: https://mocacinno.com/

v0.2.11 can be found on dockerhub and ghcr.io
docker pull ghcr.io/mocacinno/mocacinno/bitcoin_core_docker:v2.11
docker pull mocacinno/btc_core:v2.11

There's some basic documentation on how to use these images here: https://mocacinno.com/userdocs/ (but it's a work in progress, the usecase of recovering an old wallet has not yet been posted... If you need help, i'll quickly do a writeup this week and update the documentation)