Can you retrieve receiving addresses from old Bitcoin Core wallet without downloading full blockchain?
I found some old Bitcoin Core wallets. I installed Bitcoin Core and downloaded a pruned blockchain because of space. I just want to check the balances. I thought I just need to see the receiving addresses and then can look it up on a public online wallet lookup. I found this method to list the receiving addresses, and it works in general. With some old wallets bitcoin-qt and bitcoin-cli both complain that "Wallet loading failed. Prune: last wallet synchronisation goes beyond pruned data. You need to -reindex (download the whole blockchain again in case of pruned node)". The programs refuse to start without a proper blockchain. I don't have the space to download the whole chain. Is there a way to get around this? Is this a scenario where you use a dummy network? bitcoin-wallet dump seems to just output some hex codes in ASCII I can't understand. I can't find any info on how to read it anywhere. submitted by /u/FelixAndCo [link] [comments]
I found some old Bitcoin Core wallets. I installed Bitcoin Core and downloaded a pruned blockchain because of space. I just want to check the balances. I thought I just need to see the receiving addresses and then can look it up on a public online wallet lookup.
I found this method to list the receiving addresses, and it works in general.
With some old wallets bitcoin-qt and bitcoin-cli both complain that "Wallet loading failed. Prune: last wallet synchronisation goes beyond pruned data. You need to -reindex (download the whole blockchain again in case of pruned node)". The programs refuse to start without a proper blockchain. I don't have the space to download the whole chain. Is there a way to get around this? Is this a scenario where you use a dummy network?
bitcoin-wallet dump seems to just output some hex codes in ASCII I can't understand. I can't find any info on how to read it anywhere.
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