If you’ve been around the cryptocurrency space for a while, you might remember the days of the Bitcoin Core "Satoshi" client. Back then, your entire financial identity was contained in a single file: wallet.dat .
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A wallet.dat file is the heart of the (formerly Bitcoin-Qt) client. Unlike modern wallets that use a 12 or 24-word seed phrase (BIP39), early Bitcoin wallets stored your private keys, transaction history, and address book in this single Berkeley DB database file. If you’ve been around the cryptocurrency space for