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If you currently have or ever have had a Bitcoin Core wallet, follow these security imperatives immediately.
: The cryptographic proofs required to sign transactions and spend your Bitcoin. Index-of-bitcoin-wallet-dat
The wallet.dat file is the default database used by Bitcoin Core—the original, full-node client of the Bitcoin network. If you currently have or ever have had
If a cryptocurrency user mistakenly backs up their Bitcoin Core data directory to a public web server folder, or runs a web node with incorrect permissions, the web server will happily display the contents of that folder to the public. If a cryptocurrency user mistakenly backs up their
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A user rents a cheap VPS to run a Bitcoin node. They install Bitcoin Core, which creates ~/.bitcoin/wallet.dat . Later, they install a web control panel (like Webmin, cPanel, or HFS - HTTP File Server) but configure the root directory to the user’s home folder. The web server then happily indexes /home/username/.bitcoin/ .