Questions tagged [wallet-recovery]
The process of recovering lost bitcoins or private keys from a wallet/backup
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Question about running full node electrum wallet
can you please help:
1) How can you run a full node wallet with electrum? what do you need? Or please link me to an understandable guide for that
2) Do you have to be online always or can you set ...
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btc qt syncing but taking to long/dumpwallet debug console problems
Would like to transfer my btc qt wallet to electrum but having difficulties.
My node is currently syncing
Tried emptying out receiving addresses and was successful but there are still more coins in ...
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how do you transfer your Bitcoin core wallet while syncing?
I would like to transfer my btc wallet to an electrum wallet. Syncing is taking to long.
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Security trade-offs between centralized wallet system and a SPV wallet?
there are many wallets on the market. And I would appreciate if someone can clarify the key technical security advantages or disadvantages when using a SPV wallet vs a centralized wallet.
I am ...
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Centralized wallet systems - which methods exist to circumvent a malicious wallet provider?
I have a question about centralized wallet providers.
Before I ask, I provide you my definition of "centralized": In this context, I mean by "centralized" that a wallet is broadcasting your ...
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How to get the private keys out of old wallet.dat without syncing blockchain
I have old wallet.dat files of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Omnicore. My Bitcoin Cash wallet.dat has unbroadcasted transactions inside, so I am afraid that others might also have unbroadcasted ...
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find bip32 seed from transaction
Based on my bip32 word list, I have a list of about 100k seed phrases that pass checksum and am trying to figure out my actual seed.
Earlier, I was derivign the xpub key and searching the blockchain ...
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When will I receive bitcoins
Today I sent bitcoin to my bitcoin core wallet. I used an address under recieve bitcoins. The transaction has been cleared on the blockchain for several hours but is not showing up in my wallet. ...
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Is lack of version number really a flaw of BIP39?
It seemed that BIP39 was often criticized as it lacks version number. However, wasn't BIP39 supposed to be universal, that "one single seed covers all purposes, one single seed backups everything"?
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Wallet Recovery with Bip39 Seed
From having a list of bip39 seeds, is there any way of recovering a wallet? In particular, I have a list of ~100 seeds--one of which is mine--and need an automate way of figuring out which is valid ...
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bip39 checksum python
Is there any Python package which will allow me to verify if the checksum of a bip39 mnemonic is valid? For instance, I have a 24-word bip39 mnemonic, and I might have made a mistake for one of the ...
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Needing to recover husband's bitcoin account
My husband passed away a few weeks ago and he had a bitcoin account. Is there any way that I can recover that and transfer it?
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If a user recovered data directory of LN node software with an old backup, what would happen? Would cooperative channel closing be possible?
As far as I know, the "Data Loss Protection" feature would just request the counterparty to unilaterally close the channel. I wonder if mutual closing is still possible, with old channel states?
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Backup of a bitcoind wallet using the extended private masterkey only
If I understand correctly, bitcoind makes use of a extended private masterkey in order to deterministically generate private/public keys for a wallet.
Using the dumpwallet command, I'm able to get ...
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Help recovering BitPay wallet Reward!
I had money sent to my wallet and couldn’t remember my encrypt password. I had my 12 word recovery phrase written down but it’s abbreviated. I deleted my wallet which I shouldn’t have done because I’...
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Automate Bip39 seed recovery
I recently was locked out of my Ledger NanoS when I forgot the pin code. Upon trying to reset from my recovery phrase I realized that I only have 23 of the 24 required words (not sure how it happened ...
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Restoring a Bitcoin Core wallet [duplicate]
I have a wallet.dat file from an old computer which was last accessed around February 23, 2012 which I need to restore into a newly installed Bitcoin Core program on a new computer.
Can I just ...
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How to recover funds from a force-closed Lnd lightning channel?
I lost my Lnd channel backup in a boating accident, but I still have the mnemonic. I had one freshly opened channel to my own c-lightning node which has never been used. I force closed the channel ...
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Why does bitcoin-core wallet generate a new wallet during transaction? [duplicate]
I wonder why bitcoin-core wallet automatically generated a new wallet address during transactions.
If you see this transaction,
https://btc.com/...
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Wallet recovery history
My Blockchain Wallet Has Been Hacked By Recovery Words.and my wallet id changed
How Can I Get Access To My Wallet Recovery History?
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My husband died, I have lots of codes and words… help
I will not post any of the codes here so please don't ask.
So, my husband has a number of apps in a folder -
Tronwallet
Telegram
Guildchat
Coinbase
Biance
Google authenticator
He kept going on ...
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Is the “recovery phrase” generated by a wallet app platform independent?
I recently started a wallet with Coinbase Wallet, and I was asked to backup a 12 word "recovery phrase" that is supposed to be able to recover my wallet in the event that I delete the app from my ...
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Can't decrypt bitcoin core wallet, did I made a backup at the wrong time?
I am confused on why my bitcoin core wallet password would not work. I am 90% sure I tried the right password(s).
wallet has many receiving addresses (10 000), I generated them with Linux from ...
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Wallet recovery from seed phrase [duplicate]
How does a wallet become recovered based on a seed phrase? From what I understand, the seed phrase is another way of representing the private/public keys. Since address reuse is frowned upon, and we ...
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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 ...
