I guess it could check to see if
A has code associated with it or A has transactions signed by it?
If so, then a transfer from
A' to A can be initiated (gas paid for) by anyone.
better solution would be to implement new address format that would have redundancy
problem with ENS is that its voluntary, new address format would be mandatory (given that users would adapt it to their software)
I just stumbled on this. I don’t know if its of relevance. https://medium.com/bitclave/how-we-sent-eth-to-the-wrong-address-and-successfully-recovered-them-2fc18e09d8f6
There is a certain class of user errors that can be recovered relating to people using test accounts/contracts on main net on accident.
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?
40 hex characters sure sounds like an address...
So I guess I need to try to figure out which wallet/tool I was using previously?
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?
oh nvm it was a mist wallet
and i thought i fucked up deleting the keystore of 3 eth rip
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
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
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
Exactly that - I bought a Ledger Nano S, about 3 months too late!
I've not heard of such a thing, not even really sure what that would accomplish
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.
yeah, i used mist as well, pretty pissed with it espcially since i thought i backed up what i had thought was the recovery phrase
turned out it was just some weird mist specific shit which wasn't related to recovering the wallet itself
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.
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
