Thanks all

The price is now pretty much what I sold at a few weeks ago - do you think I should buy all back in that case?

Hi everyone,

I have recently sold a large part of my BTC  portfolio as I was spooked by a various sources telling me that BTC was heading for plummeting prices  following 1st Aug and hard fork.  They have also said that  July will be incredibly unstable in terms of price as we approach the deadline.  I a now sitting on cash and waiting for the best time t go back into BTC

Given that the price of BTC has risen every day this week and feeling that I sold unnecessarily and am considering buying back in.  can you feedback to me.

1) Is the 1st Aug really going to be that bad and should we expect volatility in July as we approach the date?
2)  Would you buy back in now or wait sitting on cash for a better price entry point in the coming weeks?

Thanks all

Matt

Hi bitfinesse, 

No marketing strategy here i am just a new person to bitcoin that made a mistake in not properly storing my seed and password.  Newbies need to be so careful and because so many people are getting into bitcoin for the first time I'm sure that I'm not alone in making that mistake.

The reason posted is because of the integrity and trustworthiness Dave showed blew me away.  I had no option but to send my wallet file over and yes  Dave could have taken everything.  But he didn't.  I paid him a fee for recovering my wallet which we agreed on before I sent the wallet file.    As I said,  Dave even supported me with transferring the coin to a new wallet and advised how to make 100% secure.

I was that impressed I wanted to tell others who maybe in a similar position to me of his services

Thanks

Hi everyone,
 
A few weeks ago I discovered when trying to access my bitcoin wallet that I had misplaced both by seed phrase and password for the wallet.  Having saved bitcoin for over a year into this wallet you can imagine my dispair upon learning that without the seed phrase or password  I had effectively lost this money forever!

After struggling for weeks to find any hope of recovering my bitcoin, I was pointed in the direction of a person called Dave at http://www.walletrecoveryservices.com by a member on this forum.  Dave was a fantastic support throughout.   Not only did he successfully recover my password an enable me to access my bitcoin again but he gave proactive advice and support to me on how to transfer my coin and setup a secure new wallet once I had gained control of the lost wallet.  I couldn't recommend Dave enough to anyone struggling to recover their  wallets.  if you are dispair ad need someone trustworthy to help get in touch with him

Cheers
Matt

Yes, unfortunately I have tried all usual passwords.  I use the same couple of passwords for everything which also adds to my suspicion that I didn't set it l.  If I had it would be one of my normal ones.  

Does electrum lock your wallet of you have a certain amount of failed password attempts?  Ie can I keep guessing without fearing locking the account?   and is it possible electrum could have applied a default password?

Great news!  I found my original default wallet on a separate hardrive....the reason the wallet in my above description wasn't showing all my bitcoin was that it wasn't the wallet that was linked to the  watching wallet!.....

I can now see all my bitcoin transactions that mirror my watching wallet and the default wallet is live.   I now have a new problem, when I go to the wallet menu option and select seed or private keys it asks for my password which I dont have (and genuinely dont remember setting).  Is there anyway I can setup a transfer my coins out without the  password now I have the default wallet live?  

As per HI-TEC99 comment, I have now located a line of code in the plain text of the wallet file called "seed" starting with kKeQ - this isn't a seed phrase but I was wondering if I could use this somehow to regenerate the password or send the coins?

Thanks in advance
Mat

lastly, even if there is no safe way to spend bitcoin - how is it technically possible for hackers to break into accounts and steal bitcoin if it is only possible to spend via the seed phrase?  if it is possible to hack surely I can find a way to access?  I cant believe I have a years savings in a wallet that potentially will sit there for all of eternity without me getting access.....Im so upset.

Thank you HI-TEC99

I have unlocked my hidden files on the mac and can see the plain text - I cant see what are the seeds though - it shows me receiving keys and "xpubs"  "accounts expanded" "master private keys"  "master public keys" but I cant see any seed

Also my default wallet doesn't show the transactions whereas my watch wallet does - can you explain why this would be?

thanks again
Matt

Thanks to all you you for replying - appreciated

Coin-Keeper - the default wallet is still on my laptop (mac) - I have gone on to the wallet and viewed the drop down boxes.  under wallet the change password and Master Public Keys are available to select but seed is greyed out?!

Bitcoinsummoner - Yes I have still got the electrum installed on my laptop - I am not quite following how I do this.  to be  clear - should I open a new electrum wallet?  how do I then transfer my bitcoin across?

for reference - I have the master public key starting xpub - can I not use this at all to restore?

I have searched my house up side down for a written srting of words and I cant find anything 

Matt

I am really hoping someone can help me.

Last year I decided to start buying some bitcoin.  I chose the electrum platform after researching and hearing of its ease of use given I am not overly technical.  I created a standard default wallet on electrum but don’t recall being presented with any phrase or password at the time of creation.  I bought a small amount of bitcoin from Bittylicious to test that the wallet was working.  Once confirmed, given the risk to security, I decided to follow the advice of a web article and create  a watch wallet.  I did so using the master public key from my default wallet.  The watch wallet was created instantly after inputting the master public key, again I don’t recall any passwords or phrases being presented to me

Over the last year I have been adding bitcoin to my watch wallet using the receive address form my watch wallet.  I started to become concerned when the transactions being shown in my watch wallet weren’t appearing in my default account.  Upon further reading online I am now hearing I need to present ‘seed phrases’ to access and spend my bitcoin in my watch wallet.

I don’t recall ever seeing any phrases in either the setup of either the default or watch wallet and don't know what this is.   Can someone help me understand what options I have.  I am really worried I may never be able to access my bitcoin again and have lost a years worth of saving

Please help!  Thanks in advance

Kind regards,
Matt