<p>The wallet.dat is a Berkeley DB file.
You can parse it using following command (You need to install Berkeley DB on your unix environement first)</p>

<pre><code>db_dump wallet.dat
</code></pre>

<p>I checked for Bitcoin and Litecoin and in both case the wallet.dat was using the same version of Berkeley DB.</p>

<pre><code>VERSION=3
format=bytevalue
database=main
type=btree
db_pagesize=4096
HEADER=END
</code></pre>

<p>I haven't try pywallet.py but I guess it should work for all these Bitcoin derived altcoins.</p>

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Jan Moritz
<p>There are many crypto currencies now, BTC, LTC, MTC, Potcoin and so on. Each of these have their own wallet.dat files used by the client software.</p>

<p>My question is: Do all these crypto currencies make use of the same format of wallet.dat file?</p>

<p>pywallet.py can be used to dump the keys from a BTC wallet.dat file.</p>

<p>Can pywallet.py also be used to dump the information from a wallet of an alternate crypto currency like LTC/MTC and so on?</p>

<wallet><wallet.dat><altcoin>
Do all Crypto Coins use the same Wallet Format?
Neon Flash
# Do all Crypto Coins use the same Wallet Format?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-03-25)

There are many crypto currencies now, BTC, LTC, MTC, Potcoin and so on. Each of these have their own wallet.dat files used by the client software.

My question is: Do all these crypto currencies make use of the same format of wallet.dat file?

pywallet.py can be used to dump the keys from a BTC wallet.dat file.

Can pywallet.py also be used to dump the information from a wallet of an alternate crypto currency like LTC/MTC and so on?

**Tags:** wallet, wallet.dat, altcoin


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-03-25. Score: 2

The wallet.dat is a Berkeley DB file.
You can parse it using following command (You need to install Berkeley DB on your unix environement first)

```
db_dump wallet.dat

```

I checked for Bitcoin and Litecoin and in both case the wallet.dat was using the same version of Berkeley DB.

```
VERSION=3
format=bytevalue
database=main
type=btree
db_pagesize=4096
HEADER=END

```

I haven't try pywallet.py but I guess it should work for all these Bitcoin derived altcoins.


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