Help - I can't find my 'private key'! for my coin

[Catto]

I bought coins from Intersango in June 2012 and I can see them in a wallet but no idea how i made the wallet and can't find key as new computer somehow didn't retain. Are they lost forever?

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[roslinpl]

I bought coins from Intersango in June 2012 and I can see them in a wallet but no idea how i made the wallet and can't find key as new computer somehow didn't retain. Are they lost forever?

Yep. If you don't have backup on a file, and if you lost private key. and you don't remember it ...
it's gone.

it's like you dig your money into a forest and forget where.

[tjkurtisss]

I bought coins from Intersango in June 2012 and I can see them in a wallet but no idea how i made the wallet and can't find key as new computer somehow didn't retain. Are they lost forever?

Yep. If you don't have backup on a file, and if you lost private key. and you don't remember it ...
it's gone.

it's like you dig your money into a forest and forget where.

The most appropriate metaphor to describe the situation. Couldn't say better.

[MICRO]

So many people lost their coins that way.
But wait u say u can see coins in wallet ? U can see it in that wallet or, u just check ur address on blockchain.info and see it there ?

[Abdussamad]

I bought coins from Intersango in June 2012 and I can see them in a wallet but no idea how i made the wallet and can't find key as new computer somehow didn't retain. Are they lost forever?

What bitcoin client are you using?

[roslinpl]

he haven't got any client and any private keys
He just know just wallet address

[MICRO]

he haven't got any client and any private keys
He just know just wallet address

Then its lost forever. But judging by is post i think he had wallet . He can't have only wallet address without key or wallet ?

[roslinpl]

he haven't got any client and any private keys
He just know just wallet address

Then its lost forever. But judging by is post i think he had wallet . He can't have only wallet address without key or wallet ?

He said that he have no idea about how he did his wallet.
:-)

Too bad.

[MICRO]

he haven't got any client and any private keys
He just know just wallet address

Then its lost forever. But judging by is post i think he had wallet . He can't have only wallet address without key or wallet ?

He said that he have no idea about how he did his wallet.
:-)

Too bad.

Yeah... Many , many people lost theirs coins that way. I wonder about how many coins are we talking about ?

[dreamspark]

Every lost coin is a donation to everyone else and all that

[roslinpl]

Every lost coin is a donation to everyone else and all that

not realy.

You lose bitcoin but your wallet is still in the network. and it will never dissapear.

So your money wont be used by someone else never.
its gone forever and wasted.

[roslinpl]

Every lost coin is a donation to everyone else and all that

not realy.

You lose bitcoin but your wallet is still in the network. and it will never dissapear.

So your money wont be used by someone else never.
its gone forever and wasted.

He means that as the 'lost' bitcoins will never be used, everybody else's bitcoin gain slightly more value due to less useable bitcoin being in the bitcoin economy.

(I think deflation would be the term for this?, I think there's a better word...)


It's like the opposite of what happens to the value of your USD when the US Treasury prints billions of dollars and gives it to big banks.

Indeed it is like deflaction.
Anyway bitcoin network has a lot of those and this is like normal that things like that will happen :-)