<p>To recover your wallet you'll need to crack the password on it, since the password is used to encrypt the wallet file.</p>
<p>You can use a program like <a href="https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover</a> to attempt to crack it. If you have any idea of what the password might have been, you can supply them as hints to the program to have a better chance of cracking it. If the password was very long and you cannot provide a hint, you may be SOL until you remember it.</p>

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<p>I got myself a wallet back in 2015. I put bitcoins in there and forgot about them. Of course, because of the course, I remembered about this wallet, but I forgot the password. I have a wallet backup, but I can't do anything. Is it possible to remove the password from the wallet? please help me</p>

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Which wallet did you use? The answer will depend on that information.
chytrik
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# Forgot password

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-02-16)

I got myself a wallet back in 2015. I put bitcoins in there and forgot about them. Of course, because of the course, I remembered about this wallet, but I forgot the password. I have a wallet backup, but I can't do anything. Is it possible to remove the password from the wallet? please help me

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Which wallet did you use? The answer will depend on that information.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-02-16. Score: 1

To recover your wallet you'll need to crack the password on it, since the password is used to encrypt the wallet file.

You can use a program like <https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover> to attempt to crack it. If you have any idea of what the password might have been, you can supply them as hints to the program to have a better chance of cracking it. If the password was very long and you cannot provide a hint, you may be SOL until you remember it.


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