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February 23, 2017, 07:48:35 PM |
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About a year ago I jumped into the crypto world with ETH, figuring that I'd missed the boat on bitcoin itself. I quickly abandoned ETH because I could not get the client to work. Even after several days of downloading, it would never manage to accumulate enough blockchain for me to use the client. I had invested $150 in ETH and was just trying to play with it (I could see the ETH was purchased when I viewed the ETH blockchain through a search engine).
Before finishing any download, I was also prompted constantly to download the new updated ETH client. So before I could even use the old one, I was supposed to download the new one.
Finally, I read that to make it work I should probably delete the appdata and start again. I recorded my password and did so. Ultimately, I gave up on ETH as a complete joke and moved over to BTC, which has been a really cool experience. I'm learning more about it, how to use BTC securely and to protect my BTC properly. But now I'm realizing of course that my $150 in ETH is gone forever. Deleting the appdata probably deleted my original ETH keystore. It's the most un-user-firendly software I have ever encountered in my life.
On a Github forum thread, reading about some poor guy who has lost his ETH because he did what I did (saved password but didn't know anything about saving the keystore, which is saved in some inscrutable obscure location on your hard-drive with a meaningless name), one of the developers said "Maybe we should make the account back up more prominent in the software."
Uh you think?!!!!
I would just like to know if there is a log of keystores on my computer somewhere! Who knows. Maybe it's in some file and I can even get my bloody $150 back!
Never again ETH.
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