What were the early wallets used to store Dogecoin?
The early days of Dogecoin saw many wallet providers let users create a Dogecoin Wallet. They were forgotten for years and sometimes defunct but now have a revival.
There are many type of Dogecoin wallets, many are fork of Bitcoin wallets
Bitcoin Core -> Dogecoin Core (usually a wallet.dat)
Multibit -> Multidoge (Open SSL encryption)
Blockchain.info -> Dogechain.info (a wallet ID was created and a mail)
Shildbach Android -> Langerhans Android (Pin protected phone wallets)
And the list goes on…
How to export Dogecoin private key?
There are also various other tools to extract Doughwallet or Multidoge mnemonics as they used their own custom derivation paths.
Over the years, their respective encryption changed sometimes and tools to extract the private keys or move the coins to “newer” wallets were not possible.
In this ultimate guide, You will be shown how to export you dogecoin keys and import them to newer wallets from most of the old and in some cases defunct Doge Coin wallets.
If you want to extract the private key from the wallets without downloading or scanning the whole blockchain then this guide might serve as a cheat sheet.
Generally you would need to have some coding experience and Python tools and OpenSSL installed. Another great tool is iancoleman.io and pywallet.
Lets start with Dogecoin Core wallets which are named wallet.dat
You can scan those using pywallet installed from https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet
With pywallet you can dump value, extract keys and see addresses inside the file.
If you want to download Doge core, please use this link
When inside core, you can go the Console, and use the command dumpprivkey. Make sure you have set the passphrase timer to at least 10 seconds in order to have time to dump the keys and copy the private key.
You can now import the keys to your Multidoge
How to import Dogecoin keys to Multidoge?
With https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ you can enter mnemonic words and derive keys from your seed words. Make sure you mark client as Multibit HD when entering Multidoge words as other settings with derive the bad derivation path and address.
For Doughwallet please use link below. Its a stand alone dough wallet key extractor.
What is Langerhans Android wallet?
If you have the Langerhans Android wallet backup, usually a file of 240 byte you and you are sure the tool from this link is used https://github.com/langerhans/dogecoin-wallet-new
then you can use open SSL to dump the keys. (give that you know the password)
openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -a -in <filename>
in some cases -md m5 flag is needed as the decryption changed over time.
For dogechain.info you will need to download a backup of your encrypted wallet and have access to mail that created the wallet. A good guide is
What is Multidoge mnemonics?
Finally Multidoge mnemonic or doughwallet mnemonics has all different word lists and derivation paths. Over the years the encryption changed.
You can try this tool
Where can I download multidoge?
You can download Multidoge using this link.
Inside Multidoge you can import a private key and use it to send funds to an exchange.
Good luck!
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