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| # Keyfile.hex privatekey extractor or Keyfile generator | ||
| This program was made for [Vertcoin OCM](https://github.com/vertcoin-project/one-click-miner-vnext). | ||
| Some users complained about not being able to mine to their own address while using OCM, and would rather have the coins being sent directly into their controlled wallet. | ||
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| This program will allow the user to either extract the private keys (Compressed WIF format) from a keyfile.hex and import them into their wallet of choice, or generate their own keyfile with a previously generated private key. | ||
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| Use this tool at your own risk, if you lose your keyfile.hex, and private keys you can NOT recover any coins there may be associated with that key. | ||
| You can run this in an offline environment if you choose to do so. | ||
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| ## Private key extractor | ||
| Extract the private key from your already generated keyfile.hex. | ||
| To use the extractor you need to have the keyfile.hex inside the folder from where you run the program. | ||
| Once launching the program it will prompt you for a password, this is the same password your keyfile is encrypted with, without it you can not extract the private key. | ||
| Once you have entered the password the program will output your private key in a compressed WIF format which you can then import into your wallet of choice. | ||
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| To use the extractor you need to have a keyfile.hex inside the directory from where you run the program. | ||
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| After launching the program it will prompt you for a password, this is the same password your keyfile is encrypted with, without it you can not extract the private key. | ||
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| Once you have entered the password the program will output your private key in a compressed WIF format which you can then import into your wallet of choice. It will also print a QR code to make it easy to import into wallets like Coinomi. | ||
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| ## How to build | ||
| I strongly recommend people to build this themselves. | ||
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| You need to have [Go](https://golang.org/) installed in order to be able to build this. | ||
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| When Go is installed and the program downloaded you need to download the used packages: | ||
| ```bash | ||
| go mod download | ||
| ``` | ||
| Once finished you can build the program: | ||
| ```bash | ||
| go build extract-privatekey.go | ||
| ``` |
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