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Questions tagged [lost-wallet]

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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. What can I do if… I don't remember which service I…
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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 states I can recover my Bitcoins with it. But it…
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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 records transactions in which the difference between…
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How can I find my bitcoin wallet?

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 and enter my address into it and get everything…
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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 12-word phrase.
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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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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 program called MultiBit HD but all the instructions…
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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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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 become corrupted in the first place?
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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 out to the company that processed my conversion…
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I lost my private key

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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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 I lose the new bitcoins I received?
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Is it still possible to recover Multibit Classic wallet from multibit.key file?

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 openssl enc -d -p -aes-256-cbc -a -in…
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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 say I know the proper nouns, or the…
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Lost .dat file but

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 addresses. Isn't my lost adress supposed to be in…
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