ASCII: seed phrase: "where the old oak dreams"
1. Backing Up and Restoring The Wallet * 1.1 Creating the Wallet. Since version 0.21, Bitcoin Core no longer has a default wallet. Backingup your wallet - Bitcoinwiki wallet dat
dumpwallet "mykeys.txt"
By default, it isn't encrypted! Set a strong passphrase in the client. You can usually find it in %APPDATA%\Bitcoin\ on Windows or ~/.bitcoin/ If your client crashes, you can often just swap your old wallet.dat into a fresh install to get your coins back. Scenario 3: Troubleshooting a corrupt file Help! "Error: wallet.dat corrupt, salvage failed" ASCII: seed phrase: "where the old oak dreams"
1
: Close the application, then copy your wallet.dat into the default Bitcoin folder mentioned above, replacing the new, empty one created during installation. Backingup your wallet - Bitcoinwiki
dumpwallet "mykeys
The command line blinked. Then it showed a balance: .
At current prices, that was over $60 million. But the last transaction timestamp was 2011. Back when you could mine a hundred coins on a laptop overnight. Back when people used Bitcoin to buy pizza or donate to WikiLeaks, not hoard it like digital gold.
