Lost password and possibly seed—are my bitcoins gone forever?

[moomoo666]

I forgot my password

When I try to restore my wallet from the seed I have on file it says there have been no transactions with this wallet. And none of the addresses are familiar. So this makes me think that somehow the seed I have is for a different wallet, but I have no idea how that would happen as I dont think I ever made a 2nd wallet.

When I restore a read-only wallet from the master public key, then I see the transaction and balance are there and looks good.

Is there anyway I can get my bitcoins??

Thanks very much!

[btcven]

Besides checking if the gap limit does the trick, try writing your password in a text file. Sometimes one of your keyboard keys doesn't work properly and you are entering a wrong password.

The last you can do is trying to crack your own password if you remember part of it.

[PeakFree]

Hi there!

I wrote a program which tries to crack Electrum wallet passwords on the GPU some while ago (http://www.reddit.com/r/Jobs4Bitcoins/comments/1tonwq/for_hire_crack_your_wallet/) and could already help some people in your situation.

I can try to help you, but only, if your password is not too long, or you approximately know what it looked like.

Cheers!