Bitcoin Forum
September 01, 2024, 07:02:47 AM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.1 [Torrent]
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register More  
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: Electrum question  (Read 402 times)
djbridgeland (OP)
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1
Merit: 0


View Profile
April 22, 2013, 07:32:14 PM
 #1

So I created an offline wallet on a usb stick. I moved funds to the wallet. I then accidently formatted the usb stick, with no backup made yet. I ran a recovery tool and it recovered 217 folders worth of encrypted data from the stick. I was able to find the master public key and could build a seedless wallet from that. The funds match what I previously had. Is it possible to create a transaction with this wallet, then sign and broadcast it with another wallet?  I have attempted to do this and it gets rejected every time. Can the seedless wallet only be signed with the wallet it was created from or is what I described above possible.
bitcoinrevelacio
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 19
Merit: 0


View Profile
April 22, 2013, 08:01:28 PM
 #2

To be able to transfer your bitcoins to another address, you will need your private key. You cannot do much of anything with a public key besides receive and view the amount of bitcoins you have (which is important, just not in this case). So unless you find your private key you cannot spend your bitcoins. So as far as I know, sorry.
503guy
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Activity: 140
Merit: 100



View Profile
April 22, 2013, 08:04:57 PM
 #3

You're screwed without the private key...

GerMG
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 14
Merit: 0



View Profile WWW
April 22, 2013, 08:11:27 PM
 #4

electrum has seed i hope u can remember ur seed words
Pages: [1]
  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!