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Questions tagged [wallet-recovery]

The process of recovering lost bitcoins or private keys from a wallet/backup

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Wallet gone and lost recovery phrase, how to get back my bitcoins?

I lost my phone where I stored my 12 word recovery phrase. How can I get back my bitcoins?
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Corrupt wallet.dat file - Try quitting bitcoin and running this again

I have made a few major mistakes and am making a last ditch effort to recover my bitcoins. I had a wallet.dat file on a previous installation of windows, after reformatting (with no previous back up, I know I know...) I realized my mistake and…
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Why do people go looking for old hardware that has a wallet?

Don't you just need the recovery phrase to get your bitcoins back if your computer is lost or damaged? I don't understand these stories of people trying to find old computers with wallets on them at the dump.
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I must have written my 24 seed words incorrectly, options?

I have 24 seed words for a wallet (greenaddress), and also had access to that wallet with a simple passphrase on my machine. I wrote down two backups of the seed words which are identical, yet I must have made a mistake as it isn't working to…
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Is a 'seed phrase' independent of the type of wallet?

I have had a few things happen on my PC and for the moment can't directly call up my bitcoin in its old wallet. There are files from various wallets sitting in my home directory but before I try to get a wallet program to retrieve from them, will…
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Can't open my bitcoin wallet

Help please. In 2013 I could not remember my password. I just recovered my password. I try to open the same wallet I used before but only get a message from Adobe Reader "unable to open because file is not supported or is damaged". This happens…
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Retrieving bitcoin from old seed

In January 2016 I bought a bitcoin but I don't remember what program I used. I used the seed code and now I entered a wallet. However, it is empty. And it also says there haven't been any transactions ever. Did I enter a wrong seed or someone else's…
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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 there anything preventing me from just installing…
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BTC recovery from registration details without wallet.dat

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 there any way to get my BTC back. I am…
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Updating a Bitcoin wallet

I have a harddrive with an old wallet but I am not sure what I need to do to see how much BTC I have. I have read quite a few notes, but I am looking for the latest information. I want to continue leaving my BTC in my private wallet until I decide…
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Just got back into bitcoin but theres almost no way for me to use my bitcoins, please help!

I recently got back into bitcoin after 3 years and I want access to my wallet I saved on my HardDisk a while back. It seems the wallet manager I used (multibit wallet) is out of date. However NO other software seems to be able to read my wallet so I…
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How to tell if a file is a Bitcoin wallet?

This question is very similar to this one ("Identifying wallet file among soup of recovered .dat files"), but slightly different. I ran photorec and ended up with a bunch of files. Per this answer, I ran file and found one that had the exact…
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Need help recovering lost bitcoins from a crashed computer's wallet file

Hi so a few years back I purchased 25 bitcoins, after I purchased them I placed them in a wallet, my computer crashed and I got a new one forgetting about the bitcoins, now seeing the high price for the coins I want to know if there is any way to…
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How to restore my old wallet from address and privatekey?

Few years ago I created a bitcoin wallet. I did it with some command line util which generated bitcoin address from template. At the bottom of output util tells me to store this in private place. I did it and forgot about bitcoin for few years. I…
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The first bitcoin wallets?

I am trying to track down my old wallet, and I can't remember what kind of wallet it was! I am wondering what some of the first most popular wallets were, from the start of bitcoin in 2009 to about 2013! Thanks!
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