Questions tagged [wallet-recovery]
The process of recovering lost bitcoins or private keys from a wallet/backup
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Help get specific address private key
I want to know if someone can help me with this situation:
Two years ago I changed the password of my Bitcoin-Core wallet and forgot it.
I sent my wallet.dat to some person, who claimed that will ...
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are checksums included in mnemonic seed phrases?
say i have 24 words. Out of those 24 words, is the 24th one the checksum.
say i have:
a1 b2 c3 d4 e5 f6 g7 h8 i9 j10 k11 l12 m13 n14 o15 p16 q17 r18 s19 t20 u21 v22 w23 x24
is x24 the checksum? or ...
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Used 12 word recovery seed phrase to restore wallet, then remembered my password to the old wallet
I can now log in using both the old wallet id and password for one, and the new wallet id and password for the other. Both wallets have the same funds from various crypto currencies. Is there a way to ...
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recovering wallet [duplicate]
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I am not exactly sure what I need to do and I do not want to accidentally overwrite my disk. I may have already done so.
After searching my web history I have found the BTC address that my BTC is ...
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How does Trezor recover all public keys from different blockchains?
I understand that the Trezor is a HD wallet, meaning private-public keys are generated through a deterministic, hierarchical expansion of the root seed. However, when I am in a process of recovering ...
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How do I restore use of my wallet.dat file, last used in 2013?
I found a wallet.dat file in my backup folder, which I recall last using in 2013. I'm curious to see what the BTC contents are, which I recall being a really small fraction of BTC.
In any case, is ...
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Recovery of a corrupted wallet
I have a very old wallet.dat that I've put into my .bitcoin folder. When trying to run bitcoind, the service stops giving the following error
2019-06-11T18:14:02Z Using wallet directory /home/nom/....
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Recover BTC sent to unrecoverable wallet
Disclaimer: I know I'm not likely to get an answer that will result in my getting the coins back, I'm just sing my due diligence in trying.
I sent coins from my Paxful wallet to an Electrum wallet to ...
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Wallet no longer shows Bitcoin balance
I checked my wallet (Monarch wallet) about a week ago and I had a small amount of bitcoin in it. I looked at it again a few days ago and it had vanished. I tried recovery, uninstalled wallet and ...
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Can a BIP39 12-word mnemonic be used to restore a wallet through bitcoin-cli?
I could not find documentation on using a 12-word BIP39 Mnemonic to restore a wallet through bitcoin-cli. It seems that importprivkey might be the right RPC call but when I provide the 12 words, it ...
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How do I find out if an address belongs to me
1CK6KHY6MHgYvmRQ4PAafKYDrg1ejbH1cE I believe is an old block chain address of mine
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What year did bitcoins come out?
I purchased one in 2009 or 2010 . I want to know how I would recover it. I was sent to prison I would like to know asap please and thank you .
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Recover Bitcoin Wallet info
I sent some (worth around 1000usd) bitcoins to one of my wallets and doesn't remember which wallet it was. Now I'm checking wallet and seeing balance is still there. Can somebody tell me how do I see ...
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Which derivation paths are used by the Abra wallet?
Abra have stated in a reddit comment that their non-custodial HD wallet uses custom derivation paths to convert the user's BIP39 mnemonic seed into cryptocurrency address/key pairs. Has anyone figured ...
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18 word mnemonic seed that contains words outside of BIP39 wordlist, struggling to recover BTC
I recently recovered a document containing information relating to some BTC I purchased in 2015. I only have: a passphrase/password, an 18 word mnemonic phrase(the majority of which are not in the ...
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funds in hd wallet
I have a doubt on HD wallets, I have generated a sequence of address.
how to check the balance of each address or how we can look for balance.
Did the amount move to the base address as like monero ...
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Recovering a wallet from a lost device onto newly bought device
Please, in case my device get lost, broken, or abundoned, what can I do to recover my lost wallet address with my bitcoins onto my new device?
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How to remove password from encrypted wallet with password? [duplicate]
Without using dumpwallet nor dumpprivkey, is there a way to take an encrypted wallet and making it decrypted so it can be used without entering a password?
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If a bitcoin wallet service provider terminates a users account, what happens to the funds?
A friend of mine has/had a bitcoin wallet service provided by an online marketplace. Sounds like he had some kind of disagreement with the site administrators and they terminated his account. At that ...
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Lost bitcoin because of deleted receiving wallet id
Is it possible to recover the bitcoin that was sent to a wallet that generated using payeer which I deleted on accident? The transaction also shows completed from the other wallet.
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Can I recover my own wallet from the public key? [duplicate]
I made a wallet years back. It has a good amount of Bitcoin then I wiped and sold my laptop. Now somehow I found my wallet address public key. Is it possible to get the private key somehow?
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Question about modify Vanitygen
I follow the instruction on this post to create bitcoin address from given hex private key
In vanitygen.c
Replace
EC_KEY_generate_key(pkey);
with
BIGNUM *res;
BN_init(&start);
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Is the unencrypted copy of the wallet still usable after a copy is encrypted?
My wallet is not protected with a password, I have a few receiving addresses generated and a some funds in it, then I make a copy of the wallet and I set a password on this one.
Will the old ...
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Sent BTC to Jaxx Wallet Never Received [closed]
A friend suggested I use Jaxx Wallet so I downloaded the software and sent my BTC using their QR Code from Coinbase. Looking back, I should've left it where it was!
It never arrived. I also sent LTC ...
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Lose wallet access
how to detect the name of the wallet used with the address based on the address.I lost the smartphone.there the transfer of coin to my wallet address but I can not access the wallet caused by the ...
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Bitcoin Core Old Wallet.dat Vulnerability
Own a wallet.dat file from 2010-2011. Yesterday I saw there was a vulnerability which is makes attacking somewhat easier if your wallet is generated by old client and I'm pretty sure my wallet is ...
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BTC recovery from registration details without wallet.dat [closed]
I started mining march 2009, i remember registering. is there any way to get my BTC back from the registration process? I know you need the wallet.dat and the password or key to access the BTC, but is ...
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I made a $60 transaction to my BTC wallet and I’ve only received half of it ands it’s been 4days [closed]
Can someone pls help or explain to me what’s going on.
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Is it possible that one knows how much BTC is in wallet.dat without knowing password?
Someone says that he or she wants to sell his or her wallet.dat which seems to contain a lot of BTC.
He shows screenshot of wallet software containing many BTCs.
He says that when I place wallet.dat ...
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Is there any way to recover a bitcoin private key using some parts of the key ?
I have a bitcoin wallets private key , but it's incomplete like you can say it's 70% of the private key , there is some alphanumeric missing for the middle of the key , is there anyway to recover it ...
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Desperate need of help - Face ID stopped working on blockchain wallet app and I don't remember password [closed]
First of all, apologies if this is the wrong forum for this. I've contacted blockchain support and twice all I have gotten was a standard form response that says they cannot reset passwords, which is ...
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Seed restore from one wallet to another
Researching about restore walletS using seeds, I have one question:
I have 1 Jaxx wallet and the seed assigned to it.
Then, let´s say that I find another wallet that I like more, that supports the ...
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I am unable to sync with the network because I have too little disk space
I downloaded Bîtcoin Core on a laptop without knowing it takes up a lot of space and my laptop has only 128 GB disk space. It keeps saying "low disk space" so it won't sync. I sent lots of bitcoins ...
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BIP 44 is scanning external chain really enough?
When reading the BIP 44 proposal I stumbled upon this paragraph about address discovery:
We scan just the external chains, because internal chains receive only
coins that come from the associated ...
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Do wallets save a backup of my private keys and seed?
Let's say that I do not trust a lot in myself and my ability to not screw my computer, so also my private keys.
Knowing the concept of wallet HD and having seeds to recover all your private keys ...
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Software wallets and what happen if you break your computer
I've been reading about wallets, web wallets, software wallets, hardware wallets...and there is one question that I could not clear up from other threads:
Your bitcoins are stored in the chain. Use ...
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On a shared wallet, if one of the recipients deleted their wallets off their phone, is there a way to rejoin? [closed]
We only had one 12 word backup for the main holder on their phone. The second person, on their phone didn’t get one(me). That I know of, I guess. But I deleted the wallet by accident. Now, is there a ...
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Imported Multibit HD wallet into electrum - Bitcoins are gone!
I got locked out of my multibit HD wallet and couldn't restore it with the seed phrase (even though it said they're valid) so I installed electrum and used the seed words to import the wallet. It ...
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Can't get into my MultibitHD wallet. I have the 18 recovery words but can't recover the wallet
I'm trying to login to my MultibitHD wallet and its saying the password won't unlock the wallet. I might have forgot the password, but I have a feeling I'm using the right password.
I have the 18 ...
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I have my 12 word bip39 phrase but not in the right order
I have my 12 word phrase, but when i enter it in a wallet, it brings up an empty wallet, so i think i probably wrote it down in the wrong order. What can i do to recover my wallet?
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what is type of wallet with 18 words seed?
1) I have 18 words seed
spray inject... (18 worlds total)
2) And i have some password/secret key or private key
GVzPYhu....... (35 letters total)
What type of wallet and what crypto ...
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Lost my Bitcoin wallet and have only 11 out of 12 mnemonic seed phrase words. How can I get my Bitcoins?
I am new to the whole Bitcoin thing, and I am having my first attempt almost going sour. I lost where I created my wallet. I have my Bitcoin address and only 11 of my mnemonic seed phrase words (of 12)...
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Balance zero after recovering wallet from seed-phrase
I recently got help my some experts on how i can recover my wallet using my private key, so i went ahead and downloaded brd wallet and block chain, then proceeded to recover wallet in the first and ...
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Restore lightning network node/channels
If one wanted to restore a lightning network node, what files have to be saved?
I read that saving hsm_secret is enough to restore private key(s), but I also read about a problem with channels. How ...
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(Bitcoin Core, recovering my wallet) problem finding the address I sent coins to in Bitcoin Core 0.11.2
Im trying to find my Address I sent my Bitcoins to but I do not know how to get into my wallet and since it is quite some time ago, I do not remember from where I sent it.
While trying to open ...
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My phones died and can't restore wallet on Copay [closed]
My phone recently died and I had to reset it all the apps. I tool the 16 character reference I was given in Copay to reinstate my wallet, but there is NOWHERE to put the 16 characters code. Have I ...
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Bitcoins recently sent from localbitcoins.com wallet not showing in recipient wallet [closed]
I recently sent bitcoin from local bitcoin .com and it's not registering in my wallet that I sent it. It's 1000$ what do I do?
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Login Problems with Greenaddress
I need help desperately! I am trying to get to BTC that is locked in a greenaddress wallet. I can log into the view only. When I put in the mneumonic & password, the system runs through ...
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How to Decry-pt encrypted BTC private key
I have public key and Encrypted Private key. I need to decrypt the private key or find the password. I need your help to do this.
Thanks all
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“Bit Coin Investigators” or Consultants for hire - to help locate a Bit Coin account after a person has died?
Do you know where I can obtain a List of "Bit Coin Investigators"
or - Consultants for hire -
to help locate a Bit Coin account after a person has died?
