Looking for a wallet with 0201010420

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eric23Senior Member
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#1Jul 6, 2025, 06:34 PM
Hey everyone, I'm trying to track down a wallet I think I had a while ago. I came across a few hundred of these magic numbers and I'm copying the 64 characters that come after them. A lot of them start with D03 and end with 47. Is this something typical for a wallet or could it be something to do with my MacBook?
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ryan_nodeSenior Member
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#2Jul 7, 2025, 12:05 AM
What makes you think that that string is relevant for a wallet?
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eric23Senior Member
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#3Jul 9, 2025, 11:29 AM
From what I've understood reading through some posts, those are a set of magic numbers and the next 64 characters should have a bitcoin key. Is this wrong? I'm afraid I don't totally understand.
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ryan_nodeSenior Member
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#4Jul 9, 2025, 03:14 PM
It depends on the software that you think you were using. Also, that sequence is not specific enough. It's part of a larger standard called DER encoding which a lot of other software may be using. That sequence could show up in anything that's been DER encoded.
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eric23Senior Member
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#5Jul 10, 2025, 09:19 PM
I am 99.99 % the name of the file is wallet.dat. That would make it bitcoin core right? Do you which numbers I would need to scrub my drive for?
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ryan_nodeSenior Member
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#6Jul 10, 2025, 10:29 PM
wallet.dat is Bitcoin Core. It depends on what data you have and how intact you think the data is. Is it a bunch of unnamed files and you're trying to figure out which may be a wallet? Or are you looking at raw data from the drive directly (e.g. in an image file)? Or something else?
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eric23Senior Member
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#7Jul 10, 2025, 11:06 PM
I am using winhex. I have the drives and made images out of them. I had the file on a flash drive and probably in several time machine backups. I since deleted the backups. I figure scanning the drive images for those magic numbers I have been reading about might help me find those private keys.
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diamond_atlasSenior Member
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#8Jul 11, 2025, 02:37 AM
Did you try to use pywallet or btcrecover? Pywallet 2.2: manage your wallet https://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=pywallet BTCrecover Their guide: https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md#btcrecover-tutorial
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