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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Discussion => Topic started by: bertbrett on August 17, 2019, 01:07:05 PM



Title: How to get to my Bitcoins?
Post by: bertbrett on August 17, 2019, 01:07:05 PM
In October 2014 I have made a backup of around 3000 Bitcoins.
In the meantime, I have totally forgotten about them.
So now I have found this backup.

I took notes that I used the Schildbach Bitcoin Wallet in Android to store them.
But now I am using Apple iPhone and don't have Android anymore.

Does anybody know, if there is a wallet compatible with Schildbach Bitcoin Wallet for Android???

Please tell me.

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Title: Re: How to get to my Bitcoins?
Post by: Thirdspace on August 17, 2019, 01:38:21 PM
you should move this thread to subforum Wallet software (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=37.0), you'll get more help there
I'm not sure whether there's a compatible wallet for your schildbach wallet backup,
but you can extract your seed mnemonic by using this tool https://github.com/jleni/wallet-decrypt


Title: Re: How to get to my Bitcoins?
Post by: LoyceV on August 17, 2019, 01:46:59 PM
In October 2014 I have made a backup of around 3000 Bitcoins.
In the meantime, I have totally forgotten about them.
3000 BTC was worth more than a million dollars back then. I find this hard to believe you stored that on a phone and forgot you owned a million dollars.

Why don't you just buy a new Android phone and use this:
  • bitcoin-wallet-backup-YYYY-MM-DD. Example: bitcoin-wallet-backup-2015-12-31
    Use Bitcoin Wallet on Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet).
Considering you own 31 million dollars, a new phone shouldn't be a problem :D


Title: Re: How to get to my Bitcoins?
Post by: Kakmakr on August 17, 2019, 03:14:33 PM
There are several ways of doing this, if you have the original seed that was used to create the wallet. I have to agree with #LoyceV on this one and suggest that you rather buy a new phone with a Andriod OS to restore the wallet, before you f#%%* something up with the other methods and you risk losing all those coins.

I see the Source code for that wallet is OpenSource, so that is a good thing. Url: https://github.com/bitcoin-wallet/bitcoin-wallet  <People would have checked it for some nasty code.>  ::)

Remember once your Seed/Private key are out there, then it is considered that it is exploited, so make sure you use a reputable wallet and immediatly transfer those coins to another wallet.  ;)


Title: Re: How to get to my Bitcoins?
Post by: copoyes on August 17, 2019, 06:45:41 PM
Why not buy an android that supports that wallet, so that the problem is resolved, or you can also use an android emulator on your PC / laptop then download the wallet you are using