[conductr]

Or if your like me, you bought at $10 held until $20000 and decided was time to sell. That’s when I found out the wallet file format was no longer readable by the bitcoin client. So my coins are in cryptopurgatory. Maybe someday I’ll hire a dude to come help me. But he will probably steal my coins instead.

[jki275]

Just extract the keys. Your wallet is nothing more than a vehicle to hold the keys. If nothing else, just download an old version of electrum or the bitcoin client and export your keys that way. That's trivially easy, you don't need anyone to help you do it.

[majewsky]

> That’s when I found out the wallet file format was no longer readable by the bitcoin client.

Another bold innovation from the fintech industry! Imagine if that happened with regular bank accounts.