Bitcoin Forum
June 29, 2024, 06:11:15 AM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register More  
Pages: « 1 [2]  All
  Print  
Author Topic: MEW Wallet?  (Read 326 times)
Steiner2002 (OP)
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 8
Merit: 0


View Profile
January 03, 2021, 04:47:12 AM
 #21

What happened is the I had my MEW on an iPhone which got lost.  I purchased a new iPhone and downloaded the MEW app.  I opened the app and inputed my 24 word phrase from my original MEW.  The MEW opened up but it now has a different public address than my original MEW and all of my ETH and tokens are gone.  I went to Etherscan and entered my public address and it shows all of my ETH and tokens still there.  How do I get them back into my MEW.  I thought that the whole purpose of having the 24 words was to make sure that you could fully restore you MEW?


And what about derivation path? Is there a possibility that it has been changed somehow when you created   MEW addresses  on old and new IPhone?  Try to change the last index in derivation path with this tool https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39 installed on offline computer and look at addresses it produces.  Never use this online with your real SEED phrase.

I have downloaded lancoleman/bip39 onto an offline computer but now need to figure out how to use it, especially related to "changing the last index in derivation path".  As you might guess - I'm not the most technically adept at this.  Any help understanding what I need to do with this tool would be much appreciated. Thanks for everyone's support and help with this. 
Steiner2002 (OP)
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 8
Merit: 0


View Profile
January 03, 2021, 05:19:22 AM
 #22

Have you tried installing metmask and try to import your wallet there using your seed?

Or try this one, log into myetherwallet.com using your seed. If any of this is successful, get your privatekey and use it to import on your phone MEW.

Note: to find your private key in myetherwallet, try print and it will display.

I think he will find used addresses in his seed by using MetaMask. With myetherwallet, you havn't access to all addresses, once you generate a new one you can't see back the old used addresses.
Iancoleman remains to be the best solution but this is not for everybody as it requires the minimum of technical knowledge.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have downloaded the offline version and have started playing around with it.  I have entered my 24 words into the BIP39 Mnemonic box and it generated a BIP39 Seed and and BIP39 Root Key for ETH Coin.  Under Derivation Path the BIP44 tab is highlighted and it has various info populated there.  Down further on the screen are Derived Addresses.  They are listed out by Path, Address, Public Key, and Private Key. 

My question is, since I know what the Public Key is for my ether wallet, can I scroll down through the public addresses listed to see if I can find my know public address, then look next to it for the corresponding private key address?  I have already scrolled through about 500 public key derived address but still haven't found mine.  I'm assuming that there could be thousands that I might need to search. Any suggestions as to whether I'm doing this correctly or should be doing something differently?
Steiner2002 (OP)
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 8
Merit: 0


View Profile
January 08, 2021, 12:57:27 AM
 #23

Can anyone help me regarding the last two updates that I've posted to this thread?
Pages: « 1 [2]  All
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!