Syscoin 3 Conversion from Syscoin 2

PLEASE USE THIS GUIDE NOW TO GO FROM 2 TO 4 DIRECTLY

https://bittyjohn1954.medium.com/syscoin-4-conversion-from-syscoin-2-c32757812602

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TO USE THIS GUIDE YOU WILL NEED EITHER A COPY OF QT 2.1.6 OR BM 1.2.3 IF YOU HAVE NEITHER DOWNLOAD FROM THE LOCATIONS BELOW AND PLACE A COPY OF YOUR SAVED WALLET.DAT IN THE SYSCOIN FOLDER (KEEPING A SPARE BACKUP).

syscoin/syscoin

syscoin/blockmarket-desktop-public

Location of your wallet.dat.

MAC

/Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/Syscoin/

Note*: the Library directory is hidden by default, you can quickly access this directory by pressing:

CMD + Shift + G

in Finder then typing:

~/Library/Application Support/Syscoin

WINDOWS

C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Syscoin\

This procedure will ‘Dump’ your existing Syscoin 2 wallet via BM 1.2.3 or QT 2.1.6 into your public folder, and ‘import’ this wallet into BM3 from the same folder.

Open either BM 1.2.3 or QT 2.1.6 and unlock the wallet, you do NOT need to sync.

Procedure for BM 1.2.3

Open Console (this is found by clicking the small person-shaped icon in the top right corner)

Go to /dumpwallet and press ‘Get’

Then press ‘Try It Out’

In the ‘filename’ enter .

Windows

C:\Users\Public\sys2dump.bmwalletdump

MAC

/Users/xxxxx/Public/sys2dump.bmwalletdump

xxxxx is your username.

(nothing else no quotes)

Press ‘Execute’

If successful you will see ‘Null’ in the response body

Procedure for QT 2.1.6

Open QT 2.1.6

Open the console, Go to Help-debug window-console

Unlock your wallet, type

walletpassphrase 'YOUR PASSWORD' 120

Dump your wallet type

dumpwallet "C:\Users\Public\sys2dump.bmwalletdump"

ALL

Windows

Navigate to C:\Users\Public and you will see the ‘sys2dump.bmwalletdump’ there.

Mac

Navigate to /Users/john/Public/ and you will see the ‘sys2dump.bmwalletdump’ there.

You can now close BM 1.2.3 or QT 2.1.6

IMPORTING INTO BM3

Download, install and run BM3

https://github.com/syscoin/blockmarket-desktop-public/releases/

Allow to fully sysnc

Once Synced go to Wallet-Import Wallet (Top left)

Find and select the sys2dump file and press open, you will get a message saying imported.

Your funds should now appear in BM3. Please ensure you encrypt your wallet and back it up.

PLEASE ENSURE YOU PERMANENTLY DELETE THE SYS2DUMP FILE AS THIS CONTAINS ALL YOUR KEYS IN PLAIN TEXT

Job Done.