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Hi everyone, i need your help.
I use multibit hd by a year, never have problems till today.
As usual I open it, type my password but it says it is wrong (and it isnt).
However I try to restore the wallet through the seed, it is checked corretly, then it give me some backups to restore, i chose one but then it dont create wallet and sync. I try with 0.5.1, 0.4.1, 0.3.0.
Any suggestion?
I use multibit hd by a year, never have problems till today.
As usual I open it, type my password but it says it is wrong (and it isnt).
However I try to restore the wallet through the seed, it is checked corretly, then it give me some backups to restore, i chose one but then it dont create wallet and sync. I try with 0.5.1, 0.4.1, 0.3.0.
Any suggestion?
It's definitely weird, It shouldn't tell you that the password is wrong unless It's actually is and having the seed not working makes things even weirder. I suggest trying to repair the wallet after typing the seed since you said It's only not sync with the network otherwise, you may want to open an issue on the GitHub repository.
This same thing happened to a friend of mine a few weeks ago.
This wallet corruption seems to be a MultiBit HD thing.
As already suggested by OmegaStarScream you can try to repair your wallet or you can to try to load an older backup.
Once succeeded to open the wallet you should be able to see your balance and transfer the coins elsewhere.
if it still does not work and, as it seems, you have the seed words then you have at least two ways to recover your coins.
1) Install the breadwallet app on an Android 6.x+ or an iPhone phone (I also tried Mycelium but, despite the claims, it did not work for me).
-Start the app.
-Choose "recover wallet".
-Insert your MultiBit HD seed words.
-Let the phone sync the blockchain, it may take some time.
Once synced you should be able to see your balance and move your coins to another cold/offline wallet (I am using Electrum right now).
2) Download and use the Mnemonic Code Converter tool ( https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39 ) on an OFFLINE computer to recover your MultiBit HD keys.
taken from http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/40507/how-can-you-extract-private-keys-from-multibit-hd
-In the field "BIP39 Mnemonic" fill in your 12 wallet generation words
-No password
-Coin: Bitcoin
-Under Derivation Path, select the BIP32 tab
-Derivation path (copy paste this): m/0'/0
Your addresses and private keys are now displayed at the end of the page.
You can now swipe the private keys into a different cold/offline wallet.
Sorry for my english.
