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.
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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=v0.2.11Build 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)