How to recovery my bitcoins from Electrum Wallet

[Catalunec]

Hello guys

I have a wallet with 2.82 bitcoins which i receive 2015 but i lost the seed and i dont remember the password.
The wallet is created on Electrum in linux. Is there any way to recovery my bitcoins from the file? Thanks

[Valerian77]

Hello guys

I have a wallet with 2.82 bitcoins which i receive 2015 but i lost the seed and i dont remember the password.
The wallet is created on Electrum in linux. Is there any way to recovery my bitcoins from the file? Thanks

short answer: no way

there is a reason for the wallet.dat being safe if it is password protected

[jackg]

Have you got any idea to what the password could have been?

Is there any chance you took a picture of your see with your phone, placed the paper it was written on in your computer tower or sock drawer?
You should've encrypted the whole wallet file and then you wouldn't know how much you've lost also...

[Catalunec]

Have you got any idea to what the password could have been?

Is there any chance you took a picture of your see with your phone, placed the paper it was written on in your computer tower or sock drawer?
You should've encrypted the whole wallet file and then you wouldn't know how much you've lost also...

I dont remember. That was my first use of bitcoin and i leave it like that time because was only 500 euros.

[jackg]

Ahh, I remember those days with fondness....

I like the new bitcoin toy I had to play with back then .

Anyway, if you don't know anything your password could have been or anything that you could have noted your seed down on then I think you have lost your coins.

You could try buying another €500 and see if you manage to do better with it next time (maybe you won't lose too much looking at the big picture, just remember to make enough backups and keep your seed secure...

Unless of course you have one of your private keys noted down somewhere and then it can techncially be recovered by calculating the others (although it's a bit of a long shot).
 

[buwaytress]

I dont remember. That was my first use of bitcoin and i leave it like that time because was only 500 euros.

I wish I could just leave 500 euros around just because! But yeah, if you don't remember your seed or password at all, that's pretty hopeless a situation. Whole idea of the security design was so it's unrecoverable ever without control of private keys. It's a good $10k in there - do you even remember the Bitcoin address to confirm you actually still have that balance? Because there are some unlikely methods to suggest - like this hypnotist here. Fee is 0.5 BTC plus 5% recovery fee. Hey, you never know what the brain can recall!

[mocacinno]

1) copy your wallet, copy it twice, copy it onto a dedicated usbstick
2) download, install and configure https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover

If you have *any* clue as to what password you usually chose, or wich password you *might* have chosen OR if you chose a weak password, the above tool can *potentially* help you in brute-forcing your electrum wallet's password.

Good luck!

[bob123]

You need either (1) the original seed or (2) the password of your wallet file to access your coins.

If you are sure that you don't have the first one (which you should have backed up on paper as instructed in electrum) and don't really remember the password, your only way is to try to bruteforce it.

If you have a clue what it might be, and the password isn't that long (i.e. less then 8-10 chars), you might have a chance finding the correct password using btcrecover.


But if you don't have a clue what your password might be or it is longer than 8-10 chars, your chances are pretty much zero 

[mocacinno]

In 2014 I had an account. When I went to the account in 2017, I tried to log in with my email and password. After logging in, I found that I had to verify the phone number, but my phone number was lost and I wanted to login with my bypass email but I could not get my email password lost. I tried a lot but could not. So you also give up hope of getting it back.

There's a big difference between the OP's problem and yours... Eventough you didn't explicitly told us which wallet you were using in 2014, i'd make an educated guess and say it was an online wallet?

By using an online wallet, you were not the only one in controll of your private keys (you've never been the one in controll), and you need the online wallet's help when you want to recover your funds... The OP actually used a desktop wallet, he was in controll of his own funds, and if he finds the password, he becomes the one in controll ones again... It's up to him to try to brute force his wallet, he doesn't need external help.

The only similarity between your cases is that neither of you is able to spend his/her funds at this point in time... I hope you both are lucky in recovering access to your wallets tough.

[keychainX]

Hello guys

I have a wallet with 2.82 bitcoins which i receive 2015 but i lost the seed and i dont remember the password.
The wallet is created on Electrum in linux. Is there any way to recovery my bitcoins from the file? Thanks

THIS WAS EDITED TO FIT below BOB123s comments

If you have the wallet.dat backupwallet file you can do the following

1) get john the ripper from github and generate a hash from the wallet or here https://www.openwall.com/john/
2) get a password dictionary, preferably rockyou.txt from here https://weakpass.com/wordlist/90
3) download hashcat, and start cracking the password yourself.  https://hashcat.net/hashcat/

Hashcat support for electrum wallets was added on Jan 26, read Jstaubes comment here https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/issues/273

This way you stay in control and can move through the password list. You can also add custom passwords and custom masks depending on your preferences from other passwords you use. There are various example of this on the hashcat wiki forum here https://hashcat.net/wiki/

Either way, good luck to restore your funds.
/KX

[bob123]

Hello guys

I have a wallet with 2.82 bitcoins which i receive 2015 but i lost the seed and i dont remember the password.
The wallet is created on Electrum in linux. Is there any way to recovery my bitcoins from the file? Thanks

If you have the wallet.dat file you can do the following
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You should start reading the posts you are quoting.

wallet.dat files are used by bitcoin core, not by electrum. Electrum wallet files do not have any extension.

All 3 proposed options do NOT work in this case.

[keychainX]

All 3 proposed options do NOT work in this case.
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Oh yes they do....

Look here
https://www.reddit.com/r/Electrum/comments/7333qz/brute_force_to_electrum_password_reward/

Your hash should look something like this
$electrum$2*942782d00d632be27d54c1bac429a693*3b3c918cb07b4e086XXXXXXXXXX (X added to mask the real hash)

/KX