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what do you do when you forget password wallet? how to solve it so we can still make withdrawal?

What exactly is the software or online service you use? How long was the password? Do you remember anything? You must provide some more info, mate, if you want the community to help you.

But please be aware that it may be lost beyond hope, too. Everything depends on those details

I'm going to assume that you're using an exchange to hold your funds as you used the word 'withdrawal'. If that's the case, use the 'forgot password' feature that every exchange have, they should send you something to your email or phone. If it's Electrum, Mycelium, Trezor, Ledger etc. then you can restore your wallet using the seed and If it's Bitcoin core, then you can't do much without the password or exported private keys.

we must change the password first, if you forget the password you can't log in again. usually there is "forgot password", and you can click forgot password to change the new password. my suggestion, record your password on a paper or your smartphone, so you will not forget anymore.

Bitcoin Core case is not helpless either. For Bitcoin Core he could try to brute force the password if it were short. Everything depends on those details he is not providing :)

1. If you use your wallet from an online-trading platform - ask them for a reset password link.
2. If you use Bitcoin-QT, try to remember it or guess. The password encrypts/decrypts your wallet file, which is wallet.dat. There are services that help to recover your password for a fee, but only if you are the real owner and remember some parameters about your password.
3. If you created your wallet with blockchain.info or Electrum software, you should have your 12 or 17 words seed to be able to recover the funds from your wallets, without having to remember your password.
Good luck!

That's a real problem dude..I lost MEW few moth ago.... nothing it's seem impossible without password

If you have the MEW file and an educated guess for the password, you can use the tools hashcat provides to try to bruteforce your own wallet if your computer has enough power to do it fast.

Do you still have your private key? or Key phrase? Those are tied to the blockchain itself.
The wallet password is only tied to your wallet, and losing that do not necessarily lock you out of your funds if you have properly saved your private key and/or key phrase used to generate the private key.

If you have those, you can always recover access to your coins on any legit wallet supporting those coins; and you can set a new password for that particular wallet, etc. But if you don't, then brute force mtd to guess your password might be the only approach left; and if you delete your wallet then you will permanently lock yourself out of your funds.

(Note: Always save your private key and keep it somewhere safe. Do not store it as unencrypted image/text files, and keep those "offline" only (i.e. on an external thumbdrive, but not on your desktop with access to the internet, and especially not on dropbox or google drive, etc); and do NOT ever post them for others to see.)

I use myetherwallet. so how is the solution?

MyEtherWallet has like ten different ways to authenticate. I don't know, do you keep the details to yourself on purpose or it is an "invented" problem of yours that you don't really care if you are helped or not. Details, man, details!

write down your private key on a piece of paper (print it) and store it away in a safe place. if you forgot your password then just go to that piece of paper and use it as a way to fully recovery your funds!

it is the same for any other cryptocurrency wallet. some support HD and Seeds so you can only store the seed.

My brother in law lost his password from his bitcoin wallet. I mean he bought back in 2012 and now he can not find it anywhere. I am not sure you can recover it

This is one of the downsides nowadays as we all have multiple passwords for multiple sites. My only advice would be to start keeping a book and manage your passwords user names. Even have a copy of a copy. It is more work but you should not in counter the same problem again.

Is it possible to restore access to the wallet MEW if the private key is lost?

You shpuld always write it on something so incase you forgot it you can recover it. Its going to be very hard to recover it and you will likely lose what you have in that account.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

try going into that link, it might help you to recover it. And next time please write onto something, or use password that you can never forget.

If you have the wallet file and remember the password, then you can still access your wallet and you can get your private key back. If not, then no.


idk what you want try to talk about. OP talking about forgot wallet password, not bitcointalk account password.

or you could use a software solution: I use KeePass.

Also, though I have personally never used this feature, Trezor boasts it can serve as a Password Manager too. So my advise would be buy yourself a Trezor, use it as a hardware wallet (highly recommended) and as a Password Manager.

Of course all this advice is a little too late for the OP

which wallet ? if an exhanger wallet you have chance to reset the password by email or contact the admin.
If you lose your private key wallet, i think there r no chance to take it back

yes many time i forget my coinbase wallet password.but i rally impresses .i will be change my password and there have a forget password option.so it,s not meter.

you forget your wallet address, even I never know my personal wallet address let alone to memorize it, I save my wallet address in laptop, if i need my stay copy and paste

Well, now you yourself love to make money at home not to go to work and in search of exactly the stable and high earnings on the Internet.

It depends on the wallet you are using.If it is myetherwallet,the only way you can survive without your password is when you have your private key.But if you dont have your private key and you have lost your password as well,then nothing can be done. Just continue trying different passwords,u might get it wright.

I've lost my wallet due to i forgot my password, i just want to tell you that if you lose your password it means that you have lost your money, simple as that even though you memorize some of them, without the password you can't have access over your asset unless you have private key, the only way is the private key, as long as you keep your private key is safe then you can get access to your money.

It's because you are using centralized wallet which not recommended for storing bitcoin, i believe OP is talking about decentralized wallet where you have ultimate control over your bitcoin that's why the password is very important. In the centralized wallet, the most important is keeping your email safe even when someone got your password as long as your email safe then they can't pass that..

It is based on which kind of wallet you are using.Suppose it is an online wallet like coinbase or blockchain.info you can reset your password by email or through SMS on which way you registered.
If it is an wallet like electrum you can insert the private seed and you can transfer your funds into another wallet but once you lost private seeds then it is impossible to recover your funds.

do you use Myetherwallet?
if you use MyEtherwallet, if you currently lose your wallet password, but you still keep your private key, you can still access your wallet.

You need security words or a private key otherwise you will not regain access. That is why it is so important to keep several backups. This is very important.

Right answer, You make sure you save your private key or password away from your phone, better write it on paper because some want to hack another's wallet. Some access your phone using internet to get information from your phone especially those phone that has access to internet and get information from your phone and they might get info about your accounts in social media, etc. Save from internet-free device like usb or old way pen and paper. The only way to recover password is through forgot password and provide their requirements to uncover your password.

forgot password forget wallet too.

forgot password wallet? I asked one thing, do you remember your wallet password? I guess you will not remember it, wallet password consists of hexadecimal code that has many characters. maybe you forgot to save it and you can not copy and paste when you open your wallet

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If you forget the wallet password, but it’s linked to an e-mail or to a phone number, you can easily recover the password and not struggle. But if it's not, there's nothing to do about it.