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Title: How Do I Retrieve My Private Key?
Post by: Omooba098 on March 19, 2018, 08:33:34 PM
Just lost a phone I save my Ethereum private key and it keeps baffling me if there is a way of retrieving the private key. Pls, anybody with useful information on that should help. Thanks.


Title: Re: How Do I Retrieve My Private Key?
Post by: toucancrypto on March 19, 2018, 08:34:55 PM
Just lost a phone I save my Ethereum private key and it keeps baffling me if there is a way of retrieving the private key. Pls, anybody with useful information on that should help. Thanks.
Use your backup  :D


Title: Re: How Do I Retrieve My Private Key?
Post by: Omooba098 on March 19, 2018, 08:44:43 PM
Just lost a phone I save my Ethereum private key and it keeps baffling me if there is a way of retrieving the private key. Pls, anybody with useful information on that should help. Thanks.
Use your backup  :D

Thanks. Though I have thought of using the back up but everything was in the phone except that I also saved it in my telegram. But I'm thinking of way of retrieving it before restoring my telegram. 


Title: Re: How Do I Retrieve My Private Key?
Post by: TryNinja on March 19, 2018, 08:57:55 PM
If you haven't made any backup of your private-key, there is nothing you can do.

What exactly did you save in your Telegram? If it was your private-key, then that's all you need.

P.s: Saving wallet backups or private-keys in a Telegram account/chat is a terrible idea. You should never backup them online - unless it's encrypted.


Title: Re: How Do I Retrieve My Private Key?
Post by: posi on March 19, 2018, 09:02:20 PM
Just lost a phone I save my Ethereum private key and it keeps baffling me if there is a way of retrieving the private key. Pls, anybody with useful information on that should help. Thanks.
Ought to have also wrote the private keys down in a paper not phone which is not advisable and I hope you have the private keys back up somewhere else because if you dont, you can't have access to the wallet. However, I also lost some NEM mosaic too due to private keys misplaced.


Title: Re: How Do I Retrieve My Private Key?
Post by: gabbie2010 on March 19, 2018, 10:10:02 PM
Your private key is likened or similar to the secret pin number to your account, which is irretrievable when lost, of course this is different from convectional banking system where a customer agent could found solutions to it. However getting the password to your ethereum account and try to login and see how possible you can retrieve your private key.