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Title: Please help me recover my bitcoins from Electrum Post by: badboyrazor on December 06, 2016, 03:50:29 AM I think I messed up big but maybe someone can tell me if I can recover from this. I made a wallet a long time ago on Electrum to import my key and send BTC to my coinbase account. I did not write the paraphrase down and I wrote down the wrong password! I went back a few months later and I imported another private key in Electrum so that I could send to my coinbase account. But it is asking me for a password and it keeps saying it is incorrect. I have tried everything I could think of but no luck. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Please help me recover my bitcoins from Electrum Post by: ClaraLuV on December 06, 2016, 04:02:53 AM Passphrase and password is more important when it comes to storing bitcoins and if you were careless in handling that the coins you had in your wallet is lost as long as you dont remember your password.Brute forcing is the only solution here and it is not that easy as it sounds
Title: Re: Please help me recover my bitcoins from Electrum Post by: pooya87 on December 06, 2016, 04:47:02 AM I think I messed up big but maybe someone can tell me if I can recover from this. I made a wallet a long time ago on Electrum to import my key and send BTC to my coinbase account. I did not write the paraphrase down and I wrote down the wrong password! I went back a few months later and I imported another private key in Electrum so that I could send to my coinbase account. But it is asking me for a password and it keeps saying it is incorrect. I have tried everything I could think of but no luck. Any suggestions? since it is an imported key you can not recover it by using your seed. since you have set a password for your wallet the only way you can access the coins (private keys) is if you have the password. the only other solution is brute force and for that you need to know "something about the password" at least. it means for example knowing how many characters it has or what words, numbers symbols is inside of it. you limit the number of guesses and then end up with a small number of possible passwords and then brute force. Title: Re: Please help me recover my bitcoins from Electrum Post by: Meycell on December 06, 2016, 04:57:38 AM I think I messed up big but maybe someone can tell me if I can recover from this. I made a wallet a long time ago on Electrum to import my key and send BTC to my coinbase account. I did not write the paraphrase down and I wrote down the wrong password! I went back a few months later and I imported another private key in Electrum so that I could send to my coinbase account. But it is asking me for a password and it keeps saying it is incorrect. I have tried everything I could think of but no luck. Any suggestions? thinking again , remember your password .. you can recover with phone numberTitle: Re: Please help me recover my bitcoins from Electrum Post by: shorena on December 06, 2016, 08:33:02 AM I think I messed up big but maybe someone can tell me if I can recover from this. I made a wallet a long time ago on Electrum to import my key and send BTC to my coinbase account. I did not write the paraphrase down and I wrote down the wrong password! I went back a few months later and I imported another private key in Electrum so that I could send to my coinbase account. But it is asking me for a password and it keeps saying it is incorrect. I have tried everything I could think of but no luck. Any suggestions? Where did you generate the key you imported? Do you still have a copy? If, yes the wallet does not matter and you can import the keys into a new one. If you no longer have access to the private keys you imported, its true you cant restore from the seed. Electrum is pretty easy to brute force though, because its not well protected against these kind of attacks. A common tool for this would be btcrecover[1]. Testing a few billion passwords should be no problem, the question is whether or not you remember enough about your password. [1] https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md#btcrecover-tutorial I think I messed up big but maybe someone can tell me if I can recover from this. I made a wallet a long time ago on Electrum to import my key and send BTC to my coinbase account. I did not write the paraphrase down and I wrote down the wrong password! I went back a few months later and I imported another private key in Electrum so that I could send to my coinbase account. But it is asking me for a password and it keeps saying it is incorrect. I have tried everything I could think of but no luck. Any suggestions? thinking again , remember your password .. you can recover with phone numberBullshit, you cant recover an electrum wallet with a phone number. |