Post
Topic
Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: About Pywallet and more
by
Monnie
on 26/04/2025, 20:01:15 UTC
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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?