Has anyone ever had luck recovering an old wallet?

[X-ray]

I've personally got a blockchain wallet from 2014 that I'm locked out of.

Don't know how much is in there.

Has anyone here had luck recovering old/lost wallets? If so how much was in there?

I've tried various passwords over the years but no luck.

Got many addresses from the past that I can't recover, I'm sure there are money in there but I also have no luck. For some reason, me from the past always use obscure password and you know how it goes .

I also have a bad habit of not writing down seed phrases back then so the blame is on me.

I'm sure there are more than 0.1 BTC i can't recover due to losing seed phrases and wallet.dat but life move on and I started accumulating again.

[taufik123]

Once and I also found a Blockchain.com wallet that was even KYC, got some Bitcoins worth hundreds of dollars in the wallet and also an STX airdrop which I then claimed with an estimated $100 in 2021.
I forgot to have a blockchain wallet before, after there was some information saying that there was an airdrop for verified blcochain.com wallet users.



Not only that, I also found the rest of the Bitcoin that I had bought on the Bittrex Exchange back in 2016 and I opened it again in 2021,
the Bitcoin that I originally only bought for $5 turned into around $500++.

In the old Bitcoin Electrum Wallet I also found some Bitcoin that is quite sellable at a high price.

Every time I create a wallet, I always keep a private key or phrase of 24 words in my special storage,
or I write it directly on a special piece of paper or book so that I can access the old wallet that may still have a bitcoin or altcoin balance that may be valuable.

[nemesis_incarnate]

Got many addresses from the past that I can't recover, I'm sure there are money in there but I also have no luck. For some reason, me from the past always use obscure password and you know how it goes .

I also have a bad habit of not writing down seed phrases back then so the blame is on me.

I'm sure there are more than 0.1 BTC i can't recover due to losing seed phrases and wallet.dat but life move on and I started accumulating again.

You are doing the right thing by moving on, even though it's unfortunate - if you can't find what's needed, that's GG for you.

[JiiBs]

Sorry, I think you got mixed up.

To be clear, I'm not asking for help or a solution. It's just a discussion.

You might have got me mixed up there as well because, you said in the OP that,

I’ve personally got a blockchain wallet from 2014 that I'm locked out of.

I've tried various passwords over the years but no luck.

This does sound like you needed help although, the part where the value of Bitcoins in the wallet of users to have emerged unscaled from this kind of wallet issue problems is what doesn’t really matter and can promote discussion but either ways, you could still follow up on previous threads about this for insight.

Anyway, in your case, if you can remember some partial words of your seed or password, I would say use one of the offline open-source tools that has a brute-force combo. Exercise utmost caution before resorting to any wallet recovery companies because most are scams or shady. Also avoid giving your seed to strangers.

^{You’ve got the most unique username on the forum}

That was by the way but,
Has brute force even with a partial knowledge of the seed phrase or private key ever worked? I don’t think it possible as, if this were the case then, no key out there would be really safe.

[coolcoinz]

I had a mobile wallet that I couldn't get access to. It wasn't a lot of money, a few hundred $.

How it happened? I needed some money so I've decided to take it to a physical exchange, so I moved a bit from my cold wallet to a mobile wallet and the next day before I went to the exchange the price crashed so I've decided not to go. We went into a bear market, months went by, I bought a new phone, and when we were in bull again I reminded myself about the wallet on that old phone but I couldn't remember the password.

Eventually I took a piece of paper and tried every single password I could think of with numbers. So let's say I knew I could have used the word ford (because that was my car at the time), I'd try ford 1, ford 2, ford 123 and so on. Eventually after like 50 attempts I got the right one.

[knowngunman]

Sorry, I think you got mixed up.

To be clear, I'm not asking for help or a solution. It's just a discussion.

Really? Are you really serious here? So you mean even if this thread leads to a solution to your problem you won't be glad to use it? Sorry to say but you must be joking. Unless you're confident the balance in your wallet worth insignificant amount. Lol

sunsilk provided a link that leads to some useful threads with helpful information. You should check them out because there is no point discussing what will not lead to solution. The forum is not for chit chat but for sharing valuable information.

[Baki202]

Got many addresses from the past that I can't recover, I'm sure there are money in there but I also have no luck. For some reason, me from the past always use obscure password and you know how it goes .

I also have a bad habit of not writing down seed phrases back then so the blame is on me.

I'm sure there are more than 0.1 BTC i can't recover due to losing seed phrases and wallet.dat but life move on and I started accumulating again.

And so are many because the problem is usually from not writing down the seed phrase, and that is the only thing that can give people access to the wallet. And sometimes people even mistake the passkey for a seed phrase, and all these things happen because they don't have knowledge about the whole thing. And from all this, people are sharing that it is not for people to just read—it is an informative article that should help people know that the moment you don't have your seed phrase, there is nothing longer for you because there is no amount of magic that will be performed to be able to get your wallet back because the security of a wallet cannot be compromised, and this is why it is encouraged to even use a wallet for holdings.

[Cookdata]

Not only that, I also found the rest of the Bitcoin that I had bought on the Bittrex Exchange back in 2016 and I opened it again in 2021,
the Bitcoin that I originally only bought for $5 turned into around $500++.

In the old Bitcoin Electrum Wallet I also found some Bitcoin that is quite sellable at a high price.

Every time I create a wallet, I always keep a private key or phrase of 24 words in my special storage,
or I write it directly on a special piece of paper or book so that I can access the old wallet that may still have a bitcoin or altcoin balance that may be valuable.

I think we share some memories together with Blockchain wallet. I was going through my email notifications I received from blockchain wallet and I saw one time I bought Bitcoin, I was too naive back then. I can't really recall how much I bought this one but I know I don't have money then but was eager to get some until I lose everything to scammers. If only I was oriented properly then, some mistakes could have been avoided, I was doing it because some friends were doing it, didn't want to be left out but weren't me sharing any information, learnt the hard way.



Even after, I was using the wallet until I saw couple of complaints of locked accounts and I never look back. It was later I found out they have an exchange wallet they can flag for doing nothing. That was my first time I began to avoid centralized exchanges with my funds, I don't keep money in there.

[KiaKia]

I've personally got a blockchain wallet from 2014 that I'm locked out of.

Don't know how much is in there.

Has anyone here had luck recovering old/lost wallets? If so how much was in there?

I've tried various passwords over the years but no luck.

FreeWallet victim here, I lost millions of doge coin that I was farming through faucets and gambling platform in 2017, it was a painful past that I still struggle to forget till today.

It's all my fault, I don't do good research on wallets to know some difference between custodial and non custodial wallets, I just find a wallet online, download it and start depositing some coins on the wallet.

Freewallet don't give me any private key or recovery seed, we are allowed to log into the wallet using email and password but I couldn't log in again after several months of use have passed, some small amount of BTC was also lost to freewallet too.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

FreeWallet victim here, I lost millions of doge coin that I was farming through faucets and gambling platform in 2017, it was a painful past that I still struggle to forget till today.

It's all my fault, I don't do good research on wallets to know some difference between custodial and non custodial wallets, I just find a wallet online, download it and start depositing some coins on the wallet.

Freewallet don't give me any private key or recovery seed, we are allowed to log into the wallet using email and password but I couldn't log in again after several months of use have passed, some small amount of BTC was also lost to freewallet too.

I don't know about Freewallet, a first time I hear about it but any wallet is custodial not worth to try with your bitcoins or alternate cryptocurrencies because it's not your key, it's not your coin.

In cryptocurrency, use non custodial wallets in order to have private keys, or mnemonic seeds of your wallets, so that you actually control your coins and have your coins.

This website is good for getting wallet reviews.
https://walletscrutiny.com/

Let's try to use it for searching Freewallet.
https://walletscrutiny.com/?platform=allPlatforms&page=0&query-string=freewallet

Results are not good: no source, custodial.

[Alpha Marine]

OP, I just want to use this opportunity to tell you not to fall into scams because of this. If you're not able to recover the password of the wall or the seed phrase of the address, then just forget about it; it's gone. I'm saying this because you might run into those recovery services, and they might trick you into paying them a fee for them to recover your wallet or address. There is no such thing. The only way you can get into an address is through the seed phrase. Without that, there is simply no way.