Syscoin 4 Conversion from Syscoin 2

John Syscoin
5 min readJul 17, 2019

DO NOT RESPOND TO ANYONE OFFERING TO HELP IN A PRIVATE MESSAGE USE THE PUBLIC DISCORD HELP CHANNEL THEY WILL TRY AND STEAL YOUR COINS.

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).

You will need to run the program once to create the directories if you have not already done so in the past. Once opened close it again before coping your wallet.dat file into the syscoin folder.

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 a SYS4 wallet 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. Your funds may not show up as SYS2 no longer exists but will show on the latest chain once you complete the procedure.

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

Windows

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

MAC

dumpwallet "/Users/xxxxx/Public/sys2dump.bmwalletdump"

xxxxx is your username.

ALL

Windows

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

Mac

Navigate to /Users/xxxxx/Public/ and you will see the ‘sys2dump.bmwalletdump’ there. xxxxx is your username.

You can now close BM 1.2.3 or QT 2.1.6

Now find the syscoin folder again

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\

RENAME IT TO SYSCOIN2

IMPORT ROUTINE

QT4 (Syscoin and Masternodes) Always use latest release not Test.

https://syscoincore.org/en/download/

IMPORTING INTO QT4

Run the latest QT4

If you get this error you probably have not renamed the existing syscoin folder as described earlier.

You will need to create a new wallet (File-Create) , make sure ‘Descriptor Wallet’ is UNTICKED

Allow it to fully sync.

Open the console, Go to Window-console.

(Note for sys3dump.bmwalletdump read sys2dump.bmwalletdump)

Type

Windows

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

Mac

importwallet "/Users/xxxxx/Public/sys2dump.bmwalletdump"

xxxxx is your username.

Add press enter

Or the location you saved the dump file earlier.

This import will take a while (can be 10 minutes or so)and you will see ‘null’ in the console when finished.

PLEASE NOW CHECK YOUR SYS4 BALANCE IS CORRECT

YOU SHOULD NOW CREATE A NEW ADDRESS AND SEND YOUR ENTIRE BALANCE TO THIS ADDRESS TO ENSURE YOUR HD SEED IS UP TO DATE.

THIS ALSO ENSURES THAT IF SOMEONE SHOULD GET HOLD OF YOUR DUMPFILE THEY WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR FUNDS.

Ensure you encrypt your wallet first then back it up.

QT

Go to Settings-Encrypt Wallet and then File-Backup Wallet.

Spark

Click Padlock at top right to set a password and then go to Wallet-Backup Wallet.

PLEASE NOW CHECK YOUR SYS4 BALANCE IS CORRECT

YOU SHOULD NOW CREATE A NEW ADDRESS AND SEND YOUR ENTIRE BALANCE TO THIS ADDRESS TO ENSURE YOUR HD SEED IS UP TO DATE. THIS ALSO ENSURES THAT IF SOMEONE SHOULD GET HOLD OF YOUR DUMPFILE THEY WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR FUNDS.

PLEASE ENSURE YOU PERMANENTLY DELETE THE SYS2DUMP FILE AS THIS CONTAINS ALL YOUR KEYS IN PLAIN TEXT AND NEVER GIVE THIS FILE TO ANYBODY.

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