Have a bunch of wallet.dat files. What alt-coins do they have (and may be how much)?

A few years ago I mined a couple of alt-coins. Now I have approximately 5 wallets which are named in non-suggestive way: wallet_01.dat, wallet_02.dat, ..., wallet_05.dat. Each of them has reasonable amount of coins, also I have no idea how much exactly and what coin correspond to each wallet. Now I would like to restore some order by checking what do I have and how much.

Is there a way for me to figure this out? I do not remember exactly what these alt-coins are but have approximate ideas (probably can try to remember and select 30 potential candidates).

With this, I clearly can try each of the alt-coin client, wait for sync (may be do not even need this) and try to open each of the wallet. This will be very slow and because I am not 100% sure I will be lucky with my 30 crypto-coin guesses might take even longer.

So, is there a way to find a corresponding alt-coin for a wallet. Even maybe finding how much coins are in the wallet without downloading the client?

wallet-hoarder

Posted 2017-07-26T04:05:30.773

Reputation: 23

Answers

I think you can narrow your search space. If you're on linux, and you run the command

strings wallet.dat | grep purpose | less

you should get a list of all of the addresses in the wallet, even if the wallet is encrypted. You can check that against a list of address prefixes for each altcoin.

If you run

strings wallet.dat | grep tx | less

you should get a line for every transaction that wallet has sent or received. (This only catches transactions that were present the last time the wallet was open. If someone sent you a billion cryptobucks ten minutes after you logged out, this will not catch that.)

Nick ODell

Posted 2017-07-26T04:05:30.773

Reputation: 26 536

Thank you for looking into my question. When I run strings wallet.dat | grep purpose I get no output at all. The same for strings wallet.dat | grep tx. – wallet-hoarder – 2017-07-26T06:42:36.400

@wallet-hoarder Can you try name or ckey or key ? Does strings wallet.dat print anything at all? – Nick ODell – 2017-07-26T17:50:58.923

strings wallet.dat returns many many strings, | grep names returns something like name"IdOs4Users... (changed because I do not know whether it is important). For some wallets it has a bunch of such names. ckey returns nothing. key returns many lines, majority look like key! – wallet-hoarder – 2017-07-27T05:01:22.990

@wallet-hoarder That's a good sign. Part after name is an address. Also, if key shows up, but not ckey, then the wallet is not encrypted. – Nick ODell – 2017-07-27T05:07:11.300

It is highly likely that the wallets are not encrypted because they were in a truecrypt container. Thanks to you I found that the first character in the name can tell me the currency. In one of the wallets the first character is Q. I found this database for altcoin prefixes. The integer value of Q is 81, and it tells me that it is PotCoin (I am very sure I have never mined this). Q also suggest quarkcoin which I remember mining. Do you know how to find the currency from this character?

– wallet-hoarder – 2017-07-27T05:22:42.400

@wallet-hoarder My best idea is to try both and see if one of them works. – Nick ODell – 2017-07-27T17:23:35.293

Just open each file and look for name"

the address will be after that.

weff

Posted 2017-07-26T04:05:30.773

Reputation: 11

Hi weff, welcome to Bitcoin.Stackexchange.com. You seem to have an idea how to help the asker. Could you please further explain how knowing the address would help the asker to determine which altcoin the wallet belongs to? – Murch – 2017-07-26T16:49:00.307

And what should I do with this address? – wallet-hoarder – 2017-07-27T05:03:34.790