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July 06, 2015, 03:14:35 PM
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Set up a watch only wallet a few months back and have no idea where to locate the secrete key.  I have read that it may be stored in my browser's cache?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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July 06, 2015, 03:18:38 PM
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did you tried recovery process here? https://blockchain.info/wallet/forgot-password are you using some form of 2FA, do you have paired yubikey, phone or something..?
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July 06, 2015, 03:20:38 PM
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A watch only wallet does not contain any private keys. It only has the addresses there so you can monitor those addresses and create transactions, but cannot sign and broadcast said transactions. To get the private keys, you must find the wallet where those addresses came from.

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July 06, 2015, 03:21:05 PM
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Watch-only wallets does not contain any private key. If you did not save private keys, your Bitcoins, if any, are gone.

Edit: It's look like above two were faster.
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July 09, 2015, 04:18:44 PM
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Set up a watch only wallet a few months back and have no idea where to locate the secrete key.  I have read that it may be stored in my browser's cache?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

AS
I don't think is possible to get that back and that is why it is often necessary to have a backup whenever you have any good information even ordinary notepad could make sense in this case.
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