Electrum 1.9.8 on Tails after Reboot lose Receive Address

[caliwe]

Hi

first sorry for my english skills..  
Somebody send to me 0.9 BTC. I give an Receive Address from my Electrum Client in Tails (with ctrl+C). After reboot i dont see the receiving adress anymore in Electrum.

I use Tails and i dont think about that after the reboot everything is lost. Just Supid from me..

I have the seed and make a restore. but also with this is the balance 0 and i dont see the receiving address anymore that i give for the sending person.. The Seed is 100% not wrong (photo)

It is a chance for get the money back? What i can do? I send a second small amount to test. This i get and i see the receiving address..

Down the information from blockexplore.

Address 0.8731 BTC
Address 1LdGdQd6J7ofepk9edmdd8pxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Copied!
Summary confirmed
Total Received    0.8731 BTC
Total Sent    0 BTC
Final Balance    0.8731 BTC
No. Transactions    2
Unconfirmed
Unconfirmed Txs Balance    0.873 BTC
No. Transactions    1


I read a lot and try 6h already many things. but i cant get the coins to my wallett..

[ThomasV]

iirc tails will restore your wallet from seed after each reboot.
if you are not connected to a server, it will not restore all your addresses.
make sure you are connected first.

and please, update to a recent version, 1.9.8 is way too old.

[caliwe]

i restore the wallet from seed with the newest Version. I go look every seed ever i make. But nowhere i get the coins on.

I connected to a server, i try it also different.

i dont have any idee any more what i can do. Maybee i get scamed but iam 90% sure it was this address i copied from electrum..

Also i see the coins are received on the address and nobody move it.. if iam really scamed they sure sent the coins somewhere.

Status    ACTIVE
USD Value    $261.14
Balance    
0.87310000 BTC

[shorena]

Im running out of ideas, but what you could try is to run btcrecover[1] for your seed and the address. It can detect slight errors in the seed.

If you feel this is beyond your capabilites you can also send me the data and I will give it a try.

Mail is shor3na@gmail.com
PGP key has fingerprint 4E32 814C 98C2 B12E C473 228B 940A 17DB BD6B 68E2[2]

[1] https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/docs/Seedrecover_Quick_Start_Guide.md
[2] https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x940A17DBBD6B68E2

[shorena]

To give an update, caliwe connected me via PM with the seed and an address that contain the lost funds. btc-recover did not yield any results for the 1st 20 addresses though. Has anyone else an idea what could have gone wrong?

Code:

>python seedrecover.py
Phase 1/4: 1 mistake, excluding entirely different seed words.
Using 4 worker threads
124 of 124 [########################################################] 0:00:05,
Seed not found
Phase 2/4: up to 2 mistakes, excluding entirely different seed words.
Using 4 worker threads
6820 of 6820 [######################################################] 0:05:18,
Seed not found
Phase 3/4: 1 mistake which can be an entirely different seed word.
Using 4 worker threads
19512 of 19512 [####################################################] 0:15:29,
Seed not found
Phase 4/4: up to 2 mistakes, 1 of which can be an entirely different seed word.
Counting passwords ...
Done
Using 4 worker threads
2210783 of 2210783 [#########################################] 1 day, 3:30:10,
Seed not found, sorry...

Press Enter to exit ...

[Abdussamad]

Did you check both change and receive account addresses?

[shorena]

Did you check both change and receive account addresses?

Yes, in fact I even put the gap limit to 1000 manually using electrum 2.5.2 and the seed is was given. The balance is 0.00007 BTC from a different address (1N8...)[1] and none of the addresses match the one missing.

[1] not sure if I am at liberty to disclose the full address.

[ThomasV]

Yes, in fact I even put the gap limit to 1000 manually

i am 90% sure it was this address i copied from electrum..

I see only two possibilities:
 - you did not copy this address from electrum (you are 90% sure, not 100%)
 - you were infected by some malware that changes bitcoin addresses in the copy paste clipboard. if that is the case, it should be reproducible.


edit: of course, using Tails makes the second possibility very unlikely on your side. it might be on the side of the person who sent the coins.