| Term | Meaning in wallet.dat context | |------|----------------------------------| | | Physical structure for fast key lookup | | In-memory hash index | Logical mapping address→key object | | db_dump index view | Raw page-level index nodes | | Recovery index | Used by -salvagewallet to rebuild wallet |
The ability to index wallet data serves several practical purposes in the crypto ecosystem: josh-stephens/simple-bitcoin-wallet-recovery - GitHub indexofbitcoinwalletdat