<p>Open your corrupted wallet.dat file through text format or open your wallet.dat file with notepad++ .</p>
<p>Click CTRL + F -&gt; for search box</p>
<p>Type &quot;name&quot; in search box - It will show your btc address. Open blockchain explorer or any explorer to find the balance in your address.</p>
<p>If the above things go smooth, your wallet has working condition.</p>
<p>Now, Uninstall your current bitcoin core wallet . Clear all the stuff on bitcoin directory like make it as fresh. Before cleaning the bitcoin directory, Make sure to backup your wallet.dat, that located in bitcoin directory. Remember, Loosing wallet.dat file will lead to lose funds. So, Make sure to back up it and save it anywhere.</p>
<p>Now Install bitcoin core wallet -0.,18.1 edition in your PC.
<a href="https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.18.1/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.18.1/</a></p>
<p>After Installed, Open installed bitcoin core wallet for few minutes and close it.
Now, Open the bitcoin wallet directory and delete the wallet.dat file in bitcoin directory and copy and paste your Encrypted wallet.dat in bitcoin directory, that you need to recover private key. Make sure your Encrypted wallet.dat file was named as &quot;wallet.dat&quot;</p>
<p>Now Again open bitcoin core wallet 0.18.1, you don't need to care about sync process. Let you check the receiving address in windows tab menu -&gt; receiving address to confirm your Encrypted wallet file was correctly placed and Just move to console tab by clicking windows -&gt; console. Type dumpprivkey yourBTCaddress and press Enter to reveal the private key of your wallet.dat file. If its ask for the passphrase, Enter your passphrase with timer to unlock and reveal the private key.</p>
<p>Install Electrum <a href="https://electrum.org/#download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://electrum.org/#download</a> to Import the private key in Electrum because it doesn't have the feature of downloading blockchain data. Now you can send the BTC to your current wallet.</p>
<p>If you forgot your passphrase, the try this method.</p>
<p>If it's your wallet.dat file, then you can know some password hints of your own. Let you try with bruteforce method of hashcat(GPU method), BTCrecover(CPU method) and pywallet method.</p>
<p>If you tried and still you encountering with no luck on getting passphrase, Then you can try this method.</p>
<p>You can do this when it is your own wallet. If you are trying to do on some other people wallet.dat files, the it will be considered as stealing. However, Here you going to crack the private key of the encrypted wallet.dat files through reverse engineering core wallet called cracked btc core qt wallet. It can show the private key by typing dumpprivkey BTCaddress in console , even it was encrypted wallet.dat.</p>
<p>You can open your wallet.dat file through text format and press ctrl+F to search box and type name to find the btc address of wallet.dat file. You can dumpprivkey with the shown address in wallet.dat file for getting private key.</p>
<p>First, You should Install the Bitcoin Core wallet -0.18.1 <a href="https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.18.1/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.18.1/</a></p>
<p>Second, Remove the wallet.dat in Bitcoin directory and move your wallet.dat file in bitcoin directory. The installed wallet.dat should be replaced with your wallet.dat that needs to be recovered.</p>
<p>Third, Watch the video to see how to dumpprivkey of your address without walletpassphrase or password to view the private key - <a href="https://youtu.be/C_yNMPnnqS0?si=7PCSpsMh_yMCYWOa" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/C_yNMPnnqS0?si=7PCSpsMh_yMCYWOa</a></p>
<p>Once you get the private key of your encrypted wallet.dat file, then install electrum in your PC. <a href="https://electrum.org/#download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://electrum.org/#download</a></p>
<p>Open your electrum wallet -&gt; Create new -&gt; Import private key(last option) -&gt; Paste your private key and click ok to get your wallet view and spendable.</p>
<p>Hope its helped you.. Good Luck</p>

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John Peter
<p>I have a 94 digit encrypted mkey that I obtained from my corrupted bitcoin core wallet.dat file.</p>
<p>I also have the password, the salt, and the number of iterations.</p>
<p>Using the password I’m unable to send bitcoins however I'm wondering if decrypting the encrypted mkey using my password, salt and iterations would allow me to decrypt my private key and have it in a usable wallet import format?  If that is possible, how would I do it?</p>

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Does this answer your question? [How do ckey, mkey and the private key fit together in Bitcoin?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/115046/how-do-ckey-mkey-and-the-private-key-fit-together-in-bitcoin)
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Decrypt an encrypted mkey from a corrupt Bitcoin Core wallet.dat file
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# Decrypt an encrypted mkey from a corrupt Bitcoin Core wallet.dat file

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-10-31)

I have a 94 digit encrypted mkey that I obtained from my corrupted bitcoin core wallet.dat file.

I also have the password, the salt, and the number of iterations.

Using the password I’m unable to send bitcoins however I'm wondering if decrypting the encrypted mkey using my password, salt and iterations would allow me to decrypt my private key and have it in a usable wallet import format? If that is possible, how would I do it?

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, private-key, wallet-recovery

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Does [this](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/115046/how-do-ckey-mkey-and-the-private-key-fit-together-in-bitcoin) help you?  
> **username_2**: Does this answer your question? [How do ckey, mkey and the private key fit together in Bitcoin?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/115046/how-do-ckey-mkey-and-the-private-key-fit-together-in-bitcoin)  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2024-12-23. Score: -1

Open your corrupted wallet.dat file through text format or open your wallet.dat file with notepad++ .

Click CTRL + F -> for search box

Type "name" in search box - It will show your btc address. Open blockchain explorer or any explorer to find the balance in your address.

If the above things go smooth, your wallet has working condition.

Now, Uninstall your current bitcoin core wallet . Clear all the stuff on bitcoin directory like make it as fresh. Before cleaning the bitcoin directory, Make sure to backup your wallet.dat, that located in bitcoin directory. Remember, Loosing wallet.dat file will lead to lose funds. So, Make sure to back up it and save it anywhere.

Now Install bitcoin core wallet -0.,18.1 edition in your PC.
<https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.18.1/>

After Installed, Open installed bitcoin core wallet for few minutes and close it.
Now, Open the bitcoin wallet directory and delete the wallet.dat file in bitcoin directory and copy and paste your Encrypted wallet.dat in bitcoin directory, that you need to recover private key. Make sure your Encrypted wallet.dat file was named as "wallet.dat"

Now Again open bitcoin core wallet 0.18.1, you don't need to care about sync process. Let you check the receiving address in windows tab menu -> receiving address to confirm your Encrypted wallet file was correctly placed and Just move to console tab by clicking windows -> console. Type dumpprivkey yourBTCaddress and press Enter to reveal the private key of your wallet.dat file. If its ask for the passphrase, Enter your passphrase with timer to unlock and reveal the private key.

Install Electrum <https://electrum.org/#download> to Import the private key in Electrum because it doesn't have the feature of downloading blockchain data. Now you can send the BTC to your current wallet.

If you forgot your passphrase, the try this method.

If it's your wallet.dat file, then you can know some password hints of your own. Let you try with bruteforce method of hashcat(GPU method), BTCrecover(CPU method) and pywallet method.

If you tried and still you encountering with no luck on getting passphrase, Then you can try this method.

You can do this when it is your own wallet. If you are trying to do on some other people wallet.dat files, the it will be considered as stealing. However, Here you going to crack the private key of the encrypted wallet.dat files through reverse engineering core wallet called cracked btc core qt wallet. It can show the private key by typing dumpprivkey BTCaddress in console , even it was encrypted wallet.dat.

You can open your wallet.dat file through text format and press ctrl+F to search box and type name to find the btc address of wallet.dat file. You can dumpprivkey with the shown address in wallet.dat file for getting private key.

First, You should Install the Bitcoin Core wallet -0.18.1 <https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.18.1/>

Second, Remove the wallet.dat in Bitcoin directory and move your wallet.dat file in bitcoin directory. The installed wallet.dat should be replaced with your wallet.dat that needs to be recovered.

Third, Watch the video to see how to dumpprivkey of your address without walletpassphrase or password to view the private key - <https://youtu.be/C_yNMPnnqS0?si=7PCSpsMh_yMCYWOa>

Once you get the private key of your encrypted wallet.dat file, then install electrum in your PC. <https://electrum.org/#download>

Open your electrum wallet -> Create new -> Import private key(last option) -> Paste your private key and click ok to get your wallet view and spendable.

Hope its helped you.. Good Luck


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