Quote from: Monnie on April 26, 2025, 08:01:15 PM

Quote from: ABCbits on April 13, 2025, 08:13:41 AM

Quote from: Monnie on April 12, 2025, 02:23:50 PM

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Why pywallet? I've read that it can search your drives for stored or lost wallet.dat files. Also i thought i can't get my private keys with bitcoin core, see when i was mining in 2014 i think i used bitcoin core version 0.9.1 And i didn't find a way to make it show me my private keys, i remember core asking me for a password or something and i was like huh? Did i put a password on it?? So i think i've read that as long as i store the wallet.dat file maybe i would be able to retrieve my keys.

It's true pywallet can perform search on storage drive. But Bitcoin Core use password in order to encrypt wallet.dat file. So you still need to specify the password/passphrase.

Ok,so is this password that encrypts the wallet.dat file the same format as the private keys or is it a password to gain acces to core's function of sending the contents of wallet.dat to another adress?

The password does not have a specific format; you simply choose whatever you want when creating it.

For example: "123456", "hello", "adfe13dfasdfds...".

Later, this is used for encrypting critical data, as ABCbits previously mentioned. Obviously, you must choose one that is not susceptible to brute-force attacks, using case sensitivity, numbers, letters, and symbols, with an appropriate length.