If you held Bitcoin in a wallet.dat in 2017, you also technically owned Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), and dozens of other forks. To claim these, you need to import your private keys (extracted from the wallet.dat ) into the respective altcoin wallets.
Launch the software once so it creates the necessary folders, then close it completely. Locate the active Bitcoin data directory using the OS paths listed above. wallet dat
Use the table below to locate the default data directory for your system: If you held Bitcoin in a wallet
She’d found it tucked inside a hollowed-out book in her late uncle’s attic— The Wealth of Nations , ironically. The drive contained a single file: wallet.dat . Bitcoin Gold (BTG)
No account yet?
Create an Account
