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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: Hennyboy on September 30, 2017, 07:57:24 AM



Title: Electrum problem
Post by: Hennyboy on September 30, 2017, 07:57:24 AM
When I go to Wallet --> Seed it's grayed out. I also can 't find the seed. I know it's really stupid but I 'm new to bitcoins and I was trying out some wallets and in my enthusiasm I perhaps forgot something
When I try to send the BTC to another wallet I get "Invalid OTC". I tried to re-initiate the authenticator but it's not possible. So I'm not sure that it's needed.

Is there a way I can get my BTC's back?

Thanks in advance. Don't shoot me if there is a better place in this forum to post this


Title: Re: Electrum problem
Post by: dothebeats on September 30, 2017, 08:11:24 AM
Do you have your wallet's phrase though? Also, where have you downloaded your Electrum wallet? Have you tried removing it and restoring your wallet with your phrase? I'm quite uncertain as to why your seed is greyed out and Invalid OTP.

Or are you using a 2FA wallet?


Title: Re: Electrum problem
Post by: HCP on September 30, 2017, 10:19:28 AM
If seed is greyed out and the wallet is asking for authenticator codes, you're running a 2FA wallet... The is no way to find the seed from this wallet... It is not stored in the wallet file.

If you no longer have the 12 word seed phrase, then you have no way to recover or restore the wallet...

If resyncing the time in your Google authenticator app does not work, then you chances of recovering the coins aren't great :-\