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How can I recover the missing end of my private key?
TL;DR:
You don't need to bruteforce anything here (at least almost), and can recover the missing last 7 characters on an average PC at home within less than 1 second using a simple Python script!
In ...
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I have lost my wallet, what can I do?
I had an account on a website, but don't remember which one
Search your email account for an account creation confirmation email. Helpful search terms may include "bitcoin", "wallet&...
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I've deleted my wallet and never backed up my files. How can I recover my coins?
First, don't panic!
Second, make an image backup of the wiped drive to a physically different drive.
Third, you maybe able to recover the deleted files with tools such as magic rescue so long as the ...
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I'm trying to find out if I invested in bitcoin years ago, how can I find my bitcoin?
If you purchased bitcoin in the past, there are likely only two ways you were storing it.
First, you may have been storing it on some web wallet, where the keys to use the bitcoin are managed for you....
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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
Is there a way to just manually transfer the btc from the old wallet into a new wallet we do have access to
No.
You need at least one of the things you have none of
working wallet.
PIN or password ...
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I own some bitcoin, but forgot how and where i stored them. How can I find my lost bitcoin?
Without any additional information, it is tough to provide help. Bitcoin is a decentralized network, so there is no central authority that can do something like authenticate your identity and provide ...
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Recovery after losing wallet.dat and formatting hard disk
Your money is lost without at least one of
a backup of important data from the hard disk before it was formatted
a backup of the wallet.dat file
a note of the private key
There is no way to recover ...
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Not able to open BTC Wallet
No, private keys are randomly picked from the space of 256-bit numbers. A private key cannot be recovered from the address, otherwise anyone could take any other user's funds at will. If your friend ...
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I'm trying to find out if I invested in bitcoin years ago, how can I find my bitcoin?
No government agency or other authority keeps track of cash you put in the pocket of your old jeans or down the back of your sofa five years ago.
I was just hoping that maybe it would be listed ...
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Armory Wallet With 2BTC Gone After 3 Years! HELP!
Try searching the address at blockchain.info with the following link
https://blockchain.info/address/<your_addres_here>
It will give the current balance of that address, the transactions it ...
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How does salvagewallet work?
zcoin seems to be a fork of Bitcoin Core.
Bitcoin Core's -salvagewallet does carefully try to recover a broken wallet database (wallet.dat file).
What it does is:
Copy the wallet.dat file (wallet.&...
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I have reinstalled my PC and lost BitcoinCore, still have the Private Key, can i get my Wallet back?
Yes, just make a new wallet in BitcoinCore and import your private key using
importprivkey <your key here>
in the console (Window -> Console, if you are using the GUI).
You may have to ...
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Dont remember the right sequence of words in my private key
If you have a 24-word passphrase, without repeated words, and truly do not know the order anymore (as in: every order is equally likely), then it is practically infeasible to recover.
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Lost access to ledger hidden wallet
Is there anyway I can get access to these hidden wallets without the passphrase?
None whatsoever.
I am offering a small reward if I get it back.
Expect to be overwhelmed by offers from skilled ...
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Who is hosting my bitcoin address?
No way to know. Bitcoin addresses are created by a random generation process, and the address itself shouldn't contain any information associating it with the site where it was created. If it did, ...
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Lost Bitcoins purchased in 2011
If I understand correctly, you not only do not know your private key anymore (and probably never knew), you also do not even know the BTC address where your Bitcoins are?
I'm afraid I have to say ...
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If you have a mobile wallet, do you lose your coins when you lose your phone?
No, not necessarily. In fact, if you actually follow the instructions given by most wallet software, you won't lose your Bitcoin.
When you first setup a Bitcoin wallet, most modern wallet software ...
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Deleted/Can' Find Wallet
1) Click Finder.
2) Press CMD + SHIFT + G
3) Paste this and press enter:
~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin
Your wallet.dat should be there.
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I forgot which software I created my wallet with. How can I recover from a 12 word seed phrase?
I happened to write down the 12-word phrase.
You are in a very good situation. Much better than many new bitcoin owners who ask questions here. It is very likely that your bitcoin is safe and needs ...
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Can a bitcoin wallet be restored from the files on a drive?
If you used a wallet 8 years ago, you wouldn't have a backup seed phrase (BIP39/44 weren't created until 2013/14). So I have a feeling your timeline is off, or you never had a seed phrase in the first ...
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How can I recover the missing end of my private key?
It has to be brute forced. There are a couple of ways but basically it is replacing each character by base-58 chars and checking the key.
The amount of time that process takes depends on the number of ...
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Lost .dat file but
You cannot recover control over the Bitcoin amount associated with the addresses in your old wallet data file unless you have a backup of the wallet or a note of the private key.
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I have what I believe are my address and password - don't know what wallet from 2017
That would be a very old Blockchain.info wallet, they're the only ones using a GUID for the identifier.
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Find my Bitcoin Account
There's no such thing as a Bitcoin account.
If you mean an account on a Bitcoin exchange, then I'd check your emails and maybe old bank statements from that time to see if you can find which exchange ...
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Lost access to ledger hidden wallet
In case you just have a typo, there is a good chance that you can recover your wallet with the help of btcrecover.
They have different ways to configure possible typos. You can find more about them ...
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Options for accessing my BTC after host went down
I don't know if I can access it
You can't.
I can still see the balance on blockchain.info
That means you probably know the Bitcoin-address associated with some amount of money. However, knowing an ...
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BTC deposit old address exchange
You are right, the only ones who should have access to that address is CoinsBit.io.
If they claim they are unable to recover the coins, there are only three possible scenarios:
They have lost all ...
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have 12 word phrase need to find wallet
If you don't care about your privacy, you can always find the associated extended public key (xpub*) and enter it in a blockchain explorer site such as https://www.blockchain.com/explorer.
Here is ...
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where is bitcoins?
“getblockcount” tells you the number of blocks your node knows. If it’s not around 56000 (currently), it means you node is out of sync with the blockchain. You’ll need to wait for synchronisation to ...
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I forgot which software I created my wallet with. How can I recover from a 12 word seed phrase?
It is good you wrote down the 12-word seed phrase. Without that, you bitcoin may have been lost forever! Do not share that phrase with anyone, no matter what! If you do, they will be able to easily ...
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