Verify this file
- File
- wallet.dat
- Size
- 131,072 bytes
- SHA-256
- 80494297fd5821dbe950f2b638193a33c80c68c8549af8a3902fdfab229292a4
Check the hash
Windows certutil -hashfile wallet.dat SHA256 Linux sha256sum wallet.dat macOS shasum -a 256 wallet.dat
The hash printed here must match, byte for byte, what is inside the ZIP we sent you and what you compute locally. If it does not, stop and contact us.
See what is inside without the password
Bitcoin Core encrypts only the 32-byte private key material. Public keys, address labels and transaction records are stored in the clear, which is why we can document this file at all — and why you can audit our claims.
# Dump every record (needs Berkeley DB utilities)
db_dump -p wallet.dat | less
# Or with Python
pip install berkeleydb
python -c "import berkeleydb.db as db; d=db.DB(); d.open('wallet.dat'); \
[print(repr(k[:24]), len(v)) for k,v in d.items()]"