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I have lost my wallet, what can I do?

I used to be interested in Bitcoin a few years ago and have recently become aware of it again. I used to have a wallet back then. Given that many years have passed, what I remember is a bit fuzzy. ...
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If the blockchain records all transactions, how does losing your wallet imply that you lose your Bitcoin?

My understanding is that the blockchain records every transaction that has ever occurred, and that, when we say there are x amount of coins at address y, what we really mean is that the blockchain ...
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Blockchain.info - Forgot My Secondary Password. How to recover it?

I haven't accessed my blockchain.info account and I completely forgot my secondary password in order to send out bitcoins. I still have my mnemonic, but that's totally useless and MISLEADING as it ...
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How can I recover the missing end of my private key?

I found this paper among my old stuff. What can you do with it? Is there any way to fill in the missing part?
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If you have a mobile wallet, do you lose your coins when you lose your phone?

I'm new to this Bitcoin stuff and discussing it with friends. Somebody said, if you "have bitcoins on your phone" and you lose your phone, you also lose your bitcoins. Is this true?
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I forgot which software I created my wallet with. How can I recover from a 12 word seed phrase?

I purchased bitcoin through a bitcoin ATM, and I opened a new wallet on the spot. On getting home my phone was mysteriously wiped, how can I find the wallet I created? I happened to write down the ...
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Found my multibit.key file, what now?

I used BitCoin for the 1st and final time so far about 2-3 years ago. I thought I had lost my wallet but I found an old backup of my hard drive and it contains a file "multibit.key". I installed a ...
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How can I find my bitcoin wallet? [duplicate]

I had to update the software on my computer and had to delete everything on my computer. I wasn't aware that my Bitcoin wallet was like a physical wallet. I thought I'd be able to download the wallet ...
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I lost my private key [duplicate]

I have BTC in my wallet but I lost my private key and I can't do transactions anymore. How can I get a new private key or pass the BTC to another address?
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I've deleted my wallet and never backed up my files. How can I recover my coins?

I've deleted my wallet when I wiped my computer recently and never backed up my files. The only thing I've done was convert money into bitcoins and it was sitting in my wallet never touched. I reached ...
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If your wallet.dat back up is outdated, do you lose your coins since the back-up?

My last back up of wallet.dat was from the beginning of the year. My computer crashed recently and I don't have the most recent wallet.dat after receiving bitcoins. If I use my outdated wallet.dat, do ...
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How does salvagewallet work?

What can I expect using the salvagewallet command? What is it actually doing? I am asking specifically about the zcoin fork, if that matters. How can this help with corrupted wallet? How can Wallets ...
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Is it still possible to recover Multibit Classic wallet from multibit.key file? [duplicate]

I have the file mulibit.key (long string starting with U2FsdGVkX19E+pw) and password. Cannot find the Multibit Classic wallet to import the key and export to Electrum... Tried to decrypt the key with ...
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I'm trying to find out if I invested in bitcoin years ago, how can I find my bitcoin?

For whatever reason I remember investing in bitcoin when it first got started, unfortunately I don't have my old computer or old files anymore. If there is anything you could do to help that would be ...
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Need help to recover blpckchain.info wallet, my wife forgot her password and the brute force with btcrecover is not catching the password

I used btcrecover to extract the wallet file (wallet.aes.json) from a blockchain account and I have been running btcrecover with dictionaries of my making but it has been going on for weeks and I am ...
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Recovery after losing wallet.dat and formatting hard disk

I have received the bitcoin way back in 2013 in Bitcoin Core. At that time I don't know about the importance of wallet.dat - I have formatted my hard disk and install Bitcoin Core again in 2017 but ...
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I own some bitcoin, but forgot how and where i stored them. How can I find my lost bitcoin? [duplicate]

I purchased one bitcoin back on 2/8/14 and now don't recall having any kind of account information. I actually forgot about the purchase until recently. My email address has not changed since I ...
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Armory Wallet With 2BTC Gone After 3 Years! HELP!

I purchased 2 bitcoins with CoinBase online 3 years ago. I then sent them to an Armory wallet that I had on a server. Everything transferred successfully and I never thought twice about them ...
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How can I figure out where I created my Bitcoin wallet?

I deposited and played at freebitcoin.com and after playing I was able to withdraw my bitcoins. I saw the transaction at blockr but don't remember which website I created that Bitcoin address on. ...
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Dont remember the right sequence of words in my private key

A while ago, I purchased Bitcoin and stored the corresponding 24-word private key. However, I am unable to recall the precise order of the words. I intentionally wrote them down in an unconventional ...
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Lost .dat file but [duplicate]

I lost an old .dat file with 1.5 BTC balance. I created it with Bitcoin qt 0.8.6, I still have that exact program on my SD card. I once heard each bitcoin qt wallet does contain a pool of about 100 ...
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Deleted/Can' Find Wallet

I bought and used bitcoins 5-6 years ago through a machine (paid cash) in a bank here in Australia, I had a wallet/dat.file on my Mac Desktop that I think has been deleted well at last I can't find it,...
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Have I lost my Bitcoins?

I'm really new to bitcoins so being naive I've jumped in downloading a wallet (bitcoin core), got my address and set off buying 1 bitcoin. Now I bought the bitcoin and it all went fine, I went to my ...
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If I lose my wallet and private key does that effectively remove bitcoin from the market forever? [duplicate]

If I lose my wallet and private key does that effectively remove bitcoin from the market forever? I understand that if I lose my wallet and have no record of my private key then I won't be able to re-...
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Wallet gone, how to get it back?

So I had my Bitcoin wallet at Multibit and due to computer problems I formatted my hard drive and the wallet within it. I have no backups of the wallet, I have only my account name. Are my Bitcoins ...
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BLOCKCHAIN.INFO NO TRANSACTIONS [closed]

Long story short. Can't see transactions from blockchain.info as blockchain.com is now the website. Long story: Created a miner in 2013. Mined it from BTC Gui... and had it sent to BLO.....IN.INFO was ...
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How can I brute force guess the passphrase for a Bitcoin Wallet (Andreas Schildbach) backup file?

I have a 2013-2014 240-byte wallet backup file from Bitcoin Wallet (by )Andreas Schildbach). I generated the passphrase using a pattern of two English proper nouns and 1-2 numbers. I cannot positively ...
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How to recover bitcoin from a site that is no longer operating? [closed]

In 2013 I had 1.5 but coins on bitinstant. The bitcoin lost money and it was at 73$. Since it was hard to deal with I let it go. I don’t even care to get it out for less than 150$ But now it’s ...
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If I have the hard drive that I mined bitcoins on, can I find the wallet?

I used to mine bitcoins years ago and I still have the hard drive. I just don't know where to find the wallet or the key or any of it. Is there any way for me to do that?
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Accessing blockchain.info account without email address [closed]

I had my blockchain.info Id in my email account but it got hacked. Because of that I have disabled the account. How can I get access to my blockchain id and password now?
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Can I retrieve my Bitcoins when I only know my receiving address?

I lost my wallet identifier and mnemonic. What I only have is my Bitcoin receiving address, 1EAd1Qua6fzyenPeSMRxYcpbcKgYUBpxQ7. I also lost the "Welcome to my wallet..." message in my e-mail. What do ...
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Lost access to ledger hidden wallet

Hi Yep I know I'm a prat but I am totally confused how this has happened. So I have my ledger 24 seed phrase. No issues there at all. But I set up the advanced feature on ledger I believe is called ...
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I have reinstalled my PC and lost BitcoinCore, still have the Private Key, can i get my Wallet back?

so i have reinstalled my PC a few years ago and lost my BitcoinCore Wallet, i still have the PrivateKey.. is there someway to get the Wallet back?
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Not able to open BTC Wallet [duplicate]

My friend lost his PRIVATE Keys. Any way we can still retrieve the BTC Wallet? No other info can be provided only BTC Address.
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I have what I believe are my address and password - don't know what wallet from 2017

I have what appears to be a GUID and a password. But no recollection what service I used of if I even purchased / transferred or made a transaction with them back in 2017. Any way to check to see if ...
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Can a bitcoin wallet be restored from the files on a drive?

Hard drive crashed and requires professional recovery (likely needs newly built heads by professionals in a clean room). I don't recall what windows desktop bitcoin wallet software I installed and ...
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Who is hosting my bitcoin address?

Well I set up a few different bitcoin wallets one night and somehow I have one of my faucets set up to send money to a wallet that I dont remember setting up. I have the bitcoin address but I don't ...
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Lost Bitcoin wallet

If I have wallet address only, part seed phrase can I get access to Bitcoin wallet. Can bitcoin.org find IP logs from date of wallet download.
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How can I recover an Exodus Wallet with lost password?

Four years ago, I bought Bitcoin for my son. I bought this via Coinbase which I then transferred to an Exodus Wallet. I lost my Exodus password. I saved a string with 34 characters containing a ...
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Options for accessing my BTC after host went down [duplicate]

Years ago I had put BTC into a store wallet. The store went bust and I didn't get to transfer my BTC into another wallet before I lost access to it. I can still see the balance on blockchain.info and ...
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BTC deposit old address exchange [closed]

i had BTC deposit to old address in coinsbit.io exchange after 20 days they told me we dont have access to old addresses to bring back your money and i know the only one can have this access is ...
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have 12 word phrase need to find wallet

I have my 12 word passphrase and would like to see the contents of my wallet how do I see this wallet on a new app or site?
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where is bitcoins?

I have bitcoin core wallet 17.1 I sent 85$ to 32yF1MuqbUmKsGZE7jedkZV8PVJRuimRAu to one of my wallets but all my wallets shows 0 balance, why? https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/...
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How to recover forgot about Bitcoins [duplicate]

I do not remember the details but I got some Bitcoins for free years ago. I think it was on a slot but can not be sure. How can I go about trying to find out where I would have put them if I even ...
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2013 Paper Wallet Issues

Thought I made a paper wallet in 2013 with 2 coins, just checked it is showing empty. The blockchain transaction showing unspent as of when I made the wallet in 2013. I thought it was in the paper ...
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Recovering funds after I lost my wallet.dat

I have received the bitcoin way back in 2013 in Bitcoin Core. At that time I don't know about the importance of wallet.dat - I have formatted my hard disk and install Bitcoin Core again in 2017 but ...
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Bitcoin Core lost coins

i have lost a bit of coins using Bitcoin Core wallet. I have send my coins from Bitcoin Core wallet to my address on Bitstamp(copy/paste,no mistake here) and on my Bitcoin Core wallet has said "sent" ...
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reinstalled multibit wallet

I had to remove a copy of multibit wallet from my system & after multiple times of trying to get it to work on my 64 bit system I can now open multibit wallet. I guess when I removed the program ...
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I bought bitcoin several years ago. It it possible to find them now? [duplicate]

I bought bitcoin years ago. Is it possible too find them ?
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I forgot the last few digits of the password to my Bitcoin Core wallet. How can I recover it? [duplicate]

As of 2013, I created a Bitcoin Core wallet and transferred 2.968638 BTC into the wallet from another wallet. At that time, I was saving money to buy bitcoins. Unluckily, I set the password to be ...
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