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Hex pattern for electrum wallet
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mackminer
on 02/04/2020, 16:35:58 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (1)
I'm trying to find an electrum wallet on a disk, it was saved without an extension - can anyone tell me what hex pattern I could search for to find the file?

Thanks a mill. Smiley
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How much is lots of coins now?
by
mackminer
on 15/12/2017, 01:49:33 UTC
100?

interested in knowing what peoples opinions are regarding wealth distribution.
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Re: Hashflare: 100 TH/s paid for but not credited
by
mackminer
on 14/12/2017, 23:04:13 UTC
happened to me earlier on too. have you tried their website - looks like there having a bit of trouble but the mining farm is working fine
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Re: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order
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mackminer
on 14/12/2017, 14:35:33 UTC
i just want to subscribe to this thread by posting here. i will be putting in an order.
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Bitcoin - the 8th wonder of the world
by
mackminer
on 11/12/2017, 23:12:14 UTC
cryptocurrency is the best invention since the internet and will go down in history as a massive event. it is beginning to cause wealth to pass into more technical and engineer focused people as opposed to the way banker controlled politicians behave today.

transfers of wealth like what's going on now have repeatedly happened over the centuries....a very predominant one is george washington's time.

you might say why hasn't the internet been deemed as a wonder of the world? well, money hits people so hard in the chest and causes famines and great displays of sickening wealth while bitcoin is amazing because even people that aren't interested in using computers that much, except for a short while on facebook in the evening; throughout their day they have probably made many financial transactions. and kids born for years now have grown up knowing nothing but technology. there are also baby booms being attempted in europe due to an aging population.

the beauty about bitcoin is that it's so divisible. when you get a stable market like the dow jones for example, the value of euros and dollars only change slowly so people pass them around like us in daily business, but they also have to because of inflation. while bitcoin is limited to a set amount of coins so deflationary but the way to counteract this deflation is in decimal points. it doesn't mean that the wealth doesn't lie, with all the smart people that got into it first and these were like steve jobs working in his garage except this time there were tonnes of garages all lit up with electricity in the first few years; but taking huge financial risk due to the belief of bitcoin, they those individuals are part of what made bitcoin today, it is like a toxic virus to the banks. using the currency is like walking around with bits of gold and chipping a little bit off with a hammer every time you want to pay for something. gold is limited too but always has value although it's not used as a currency. bitcoin is not only a currency, it's also a store of value like gold to back it up.

the people that created it do not need to profit from everyday business transactions to get so involved in making more money with with bitcoin trading etc. in the future when the market stabilizes and other alternative currencies become powerful too, those individuals will still not be financially involved with every day business making decisions - thus pure as there is human nature in the majority of us and that's the first great wonder except this time it's in cyberspace. that's better than the hoverbirds in back to the future 2.

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What services offer being able to buy hashpower for mining within pools?
by
mackminer
on 11/12/2017, 12:13:09 UTC
Thanks.
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Mining pools - can you buy hashpower?
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mackminer
on 11/12/2017, 12:06:09 UTC
Are there products available from antpool for example?

Thank you.
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Of all bitcoin users what's the average amount of btc's in their pockets
by
mackminer
on 09/12/2017, 12:31:54 UTC
Taking into account some of the big losses over the years...
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Re: How to find a wallet.dat file that had no extension
by
mackminer
on 30/05/2017, 19:15:26 UTC
Thanks for this but PoolA seems to be bringing up all sorts of stuff that will make it difficult to test all files in the bitcoin client.....can you think or find something more unique by any chance? Smiley

You can linux grep for known addresses in the file.   It will return a binary file warning but match.
It is also a berkeley db file, you can creatively leverage that.


I actually am using grep....not sure how to search for a berkeley db file....
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Re: How to find a wallet.dat file that had no extension
by
mackminer
on 30/05/2017, 08:03:53 UTC
Thanks for this but PoolA seems to be bringing up all sorts of stuff that will make it difficult to test all files in the bitcoin client.....can you think or find something more unique by any chance? Smiley
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How to find a wallet.dat file that had no extension
by
mackminer
on 17/05/2017, 19:06:10 UTC
When I say .dat I refer to the original bitcoin wallet program....
the extension was removed for security reasons

Is it a hex comparison tool or a hex search application or something?

Thanks.
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Workaround to huge blockchain size - download, resolve, transfer
by
mackminer
on 28/12/2016, 22:46:20 UTC
The file is 80 gig the last time I checked....i don't have enough space on my disk for it although I can connect another drive.

I wanted to transfer the wallet.dat to another client but it wasn't possible at the time. I would have tried a few....

Have I any more options rather than the big download?
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for security reasons I rename wallet.dat to "foo" without an extension
by
mackminer
on 13/12/2016, 13:18:00 UTC
is there a way to search for this file?

I used a hex utility before but it couldn't find anything I had in common with other wallet.dat files....

thanks.
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Re: Issue with login to the mtgox claims system in the last few days?
by
mackminer
on 29/07/2016, 17:25:24 UTC
it's ok, sorted....
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Issue with login to the mtgox claims system in the last few days?
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mackminer
on 29/07/2016, 17:20:43 UTC
Has anyone had a similar problem? worried about this.
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Renamed a wallet.dat file in the past to something different that would not iden
by
mackminer
on 22/07/2016, 19:40:23 UTC
identify it the hard disk was scanned. I can't remember what the file was called.

Can I scan the hard drive for something common among all wallets to identify? Thanks.
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Re: Possible to specify a different location for bootstrap.dat
by
mackminer
on 28/01/2016, 15:12:06 UTC
I want to use an external drive because my ssd has limited space.

Thanks.

the bootstrap.dat goes in the -datadir= folder. With newer version using the bootstrap.dat is only useful under certain conditions, if you have not yet downloaded it, you can just skip it.

Can you clarify what you mean? I'm using the most current client bitcoin-qt 32bit and on opening it's showing 6 years behind.....

Christ I can't believe bitcoin has been around that long now....
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Re: Possible to specify a different location for bootstrap.dat
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mackminer
on 28/01/2016, 15:10:59 UTC
even when I do specify -datadir it doesn't load the bootstrap file...
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Possible to specify a different location for bootstrap.dat
by
mackminer
on 28/01/2016, 14:24:00 UTC
I want to use an external drive because my ssd has limited space.

Thanks.
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What do I need to do to file a claim with mtgox as a creditor?
by
mackminer
on 26/03/2015, 16:22:35 UTC
They already have my details and I can login to my account to see my balance.

Thanks.