hello, anyone know why my mnemonic phrase would have so many incorrect words? It has 12 words but only like 3 are valid according to the recovery tool i tried using. I do also have some 40 character hex that isn't the wallet address. am i just screwed?
Micah Zoltu
@MicahZoltu
@norm:coolkids.serveirc.com It sounds like your recovery phrase is using a different dictionary. All tools should use the same dictionary, but it is possible the tool you originally used had a different dictionary.
I have 206eth stuck in a geth/mist wallet, transferred in April 2017. Around the end of 2017, I deleted the "Ethereum" folder to free-up space on my disk, & the Keystore, complete with Private keys, went with it. The disc is SSD, so recovery impossible. (tried this, via data recovery company). Here's the link: https://etherscan.io/address/0x0f3074e4f45359af02c22272ba113b0e3a7dee9d#tokentxns - Is there any way at all I can at least register these funds as mine, or even any likelihood that I'll ever be able to retrieve them, given the situation?
I thought i had saved the seed phrase of my wallet, but turns out that was just mist's weird phrase system or some shit, not a recovery
gavvla
@gavinwildon_twitter
Then went on a long, painful journey of realising that they were gone for good. Fun Fact: with an SSD disc, when you delete data, it really is completely gone, unlike tape drives.
yeah I didn't bother trying to recover mine, I had repartitioned data and moved shit so even on like an hdd i probably would have been screwed
gavvla
@gavinwildon_twitter
I can view the ETH, & they will be there for eternity. Sent from my polo exchange wallet, due to "never leave your funds on an exchange" - expensive advice!
lol you really shouldn't leave it on an exchange but you probably should have got a hardware wallet as well whcih is what i learned from it, i also learned a lot about how wallets actual work in the process
gavvla
@gavinwildon_twitter
If there's a service where we can at least register the ETH as owned by, but not accessable by, the owners - however I can see how that would be fraught with problems
Exactly that - I bought a Ledger Nano S, about 3 months too late!
I've checked every usb-drive, every spare, it's nowhere. I did read a thread on the github forum where several other people had the same issue, no mention was ever made by the devs to GUARD THE KEYSTORE FILE / PRIVATE KEYS WITH YOUR LIFE!!! They were far from happy with the dev, who even chimed-in with "maybe we'll add that to the installation guide - !!!! Barn Door wide-open. Horsey gone.
Along with you & me, there seems to be MANY people in similar situations, surely something can be done? I'm surprised there's not more of a movement around this kind of issue with Ethereum. Especially given the current price.
This is the only boo-boo I've made with crypto, but also an extremely expensive one. Current value of lost eth is around £260k, this would be useful, given these times we're in.
yeah i'm sure, just don't beat yourself up too much about it
gavvla
@gavinwildon_twitter
I would pay handsomely for any assistance with recovery, a feature known as TRIM on the SSD hard-disc means it's next to impossible to recover it. I have a corrupted .JSON file which I've made extensive efforts to restore, without success, & don't think this alone would allow restoration of the wallet.
mist wallet was just ridiculous, as well as waiting for it to download ~40Gb of blockchain, should've set alarm bells ringing.
yeah, there might be someone who would be able to do it, but i couldn't point you to where you need to go
i can't remember having to do that, but i never really used the computer much on the partition it was on, i guess it was about 70gb partition so maybe i had
gavvla
@gavinwildon_twitter
Even a class-action lawsuit against the morons who developed this awful wallet, claimed by the many people who lost funds due to it.
mayngutsy
@mayngutsy
Ok I sent 1 ethereum from my Trust wallet to an Ethereum Smart Contract address on The Binance smart contract and I didn't receive back neigther BNB or Ethereum back
O.D.D TV
@oddtv3_twitter
I somehow sent my freshly swapped ethereum to the last address that delivered an ethereum purchase that I initiated in order to pay the gas for the swap. If you look on this
https://etherscan.io/address/0xda0d8f9ad9f3f22b9a5268fddeeb933b51f580ad ) - the 3rd one down is me sending the ethereum to that address and the 6th one down is that address delivering my purchase. That wallet now holds my $1800 that I never meant to send to it. In fact, I don't recall sending it, but for the sake of it, I'll take full responsibility. It was the first time anything like that had happened and the last. It probably was me. If so, I meant to send it to my coinbase wallet, but my copy and paste was unsuccessful and instead still had the address that I sent it to in the clipboard. Is there anyway to find out how to get into contact with someone that has access to this wallet? Any help would be appreciated. I've been at this for 2 days nonstop.
Eth
@eth_eth87955763_twitter
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Crypt0c@t∞Janie💋
@Shan11487593_twitter
hi, i have a similar case now. I've been cheated and send eth to a scam contract address.