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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 8 May \ on: Merged: "Remove the legacy wallet and BDB dependency" by achow101 bitdevs

2 weeks ago a dude came to me at a rum shop asking me if I could help him with his 2014 android wallet backup (to which he also forgot his password.) The same will happen for bdb wallets, so we better make sure we have tools to recover.

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Murch 9 May

Part of the legacy wallet removal project was that Ava wrote a new minimal read-only implementation of BDB that has all the parts we need for being able to read legacy wallets indefinitely. The wallet migration tool will be part of all future releases of Bitcoin Core.

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142 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 8 May

Sounds like we do!

A bare minimum of legacy wallet code is kept in order to perform wallet migration.
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 8 May

As long as people didn't configure --with-incompatible-bdb on <= 28.0 (back when there was autotools), yes. There will always be people that fall through the gap but luckily most bitcoiners will help you f2f.

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200 sats \ 1 reply \ @Murch 9 May

achow101 says that the migration tool will handle other BDB versions as well, because the BDB file format didn't change between versions.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 9 May

That's awesome! I'll be testing.

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