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That site looks sketchy. They've done articles like this before to attract views. Seems like they're cashing in on the hype around this stuff.

What about trying Coinb.in? They have a raw transaction tool that may accept redeem scripts. I haven't tried it with custom ones like yours though, but it’s definitely worth a shot.

Honestly, I tend to forget my passwords from years ago. Might need to guess a few.

So PyWallet read the image and found 109 private keys... but importing them to Electrum was a bust. Just encrypted keys left.

Appreciate the input, but I’m just experimenting here to see if the seed phrase is BIP39. No need for me to use this wallet for anything else. Can't trust it since it’s not open source, and I'm broke on BTC right now.

If you’re on Linux, the script scans the entire disk. But on Windows, you need to create an image of your disk and pass that to the script.

Looking at keyhunter.py, it only shows output if it finds keys. If you’re getting no output, that means no keys were found. It’s looking for a specific byte sequence, so if it’s not there, you won't see anything.

Are you running the script from the command line or just double-clicking it? Python scripts work fine on Windows 10, you just need to use the command window.

Honestly, not sure... You might wanna try Pywallet. It can work for other coins too if you set the right parameters. It has a recover mode that scans for wallets and keys.

Nah, MultiBit Classic uses a different format. Instead of "wallet.dat", it calls those files "multibit.wallet". So, the WINHEX trick won’t work.

Sorry to hear all this... but I don’t think it’s a Bitcoin Core issue itself. Lots of wallets with big sums out there, and if there was some unknown vulnerability, we’d hear more about it.

Not really the same. They’re different concepts here. A seed is a huge random number, like the base for everything in an HD wallet. The seed mnemonic is just a user-friendly way to store that number as words. Then you…

Not sure I get your concern... you thinking there’s spyware in Bitcoin Core? Just a heads up, you can manually create and sign transactions using the console without broadcasting them. You can check everything before…

Are you sure it's uncompressed? Most keys are compressed nowadays, so look for 66 characters. Could you show a transaction example?

So the public key is the last 130 characters, right?

Wait, you found the old HDD and deleted wallet.dat? Then you got it back? So you installed Bitcoin Core and now you have two wallet.dat files? One you recovered and one created by the new install? What’s the actual…

If you keep importing new private keys, you might want to just avoid running in pruned mode altogether. Trying to do both just leads to headaches.

What exactly are you trying to do? Recovering from a corrupt wallet.dat? PyWallet might work with newer files but needs tweaks to ignore newer metadata. Let me know if you need help with that.