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Hey, on my external HDD i found my university study data which one of files was BitcoinWallet, i recognized in 2011-2012 at cryptography classes we had BitCoin practices, each student used BitCoin Core and got some from professor and we were exchanging them each other. Im not sure if anything is there (at the end we could send everything back to professor) but i hoping even for 0.1 BTC.
BitcoinWallet file content was in Base64 so i decoded it into output.bin
output.bin content started with Salted__8 so GPT said its encrypted in OpenSSL, i was able to decode it be guessing my old passwords.
Next part was downloading BitCoin Core and this part when im stuck.. its been already few days, one of my RAM memory is malfunctioning and being far from completed (620gb) it brokes to the point where not even reindexing helps to keep progress and i had to start everything from beginning 3 times... also my slow HDD not helping.
What is the easiest way to recover public key (wallet address?) from this wallet just to check if its worth hussle.
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You could try this
https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj
Someone else posted they successfully recovered the same wallet format as yours using this java app
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1i8oq5f/wallet_file_with_bas e64_encoding/
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why would you even do a full bitcoin core sync if it's from 2012. Stop the synch after 2012
And you don't even need to sync at all to look at the wallet addresses. Balances can be checked on a block explorer.
Post more info about the wallet file. What does the output look like? don't post anything that looks like gibberish or like private material