Somehow one address that I used to receive 7.68 BTC from bitstamp.net is gone from my Multibit wallet.
I have been using Multibit 0.5.18 on an Ubuntu laptop, the wallet was placed inside a Truecrypt vault that was placed in a Dropbox folder. I have also been using the same Dropbox account on other computers and I assume that the Truecrypt vault was synchronized in such a way that the newly created address in the wallet got lost.
I have now been generating hundred of new addresses in my wallet in hope of by magic finding my lost BTC, but so far no luck.
Is my BTC gone forever or can the private key for my address be generated given that I have the wallet and the password?
the BTC address is: 1B5CNWL6SmCMT9AawaGo1kBDrHG5Cbi2zD
Hello ralle99,
MultiBit Classic creates addresses using a random number generator (i.e. it is not deterministic) so you need the private key that was generated when you generated it. Created any number number of new addresses won't recreate that particular address.
You need a wallet or private key export file with that address in to recover your bitcoin.
Have a read of :
https://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_fileDescriptions.htmlIf your wallet was encrypted, then the automatic private key exports can be very useful in recovering your private keys. These are datestamped with the time of the operation so you don't tend to have sync collisions with those files as they are (practically) uniquely named.