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Re: 2009 Bitcoin Wallet Help & Possible Find : UPDATE
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nc50lc
on 24/11/2024, 04:05:50 UTC
My question is if I recovered data from my possible wallet, would it contain thousands of private keys? Because that is what my scanner program found and these private keys are verified as bitcoin addresses.
If it's from a 2009 wallet.dat that's not loaded to an updated client, then there should only be hundreds of private keys.
If it's old but quite newer than the above, then there should be thousands.

It's highly unlikely for your wallet to generate 229,000 private keys if those aren't all used or from multiple wallet files since the default gap limit since then is only 1000.
Chances that the AI chatbot that you've asked messed up the code to aimlessly search for 256byte data from the drive.
If you can share the code, users here can audit if it's actually doing what you asked the bot.