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Deprecated Bitcoin Wallet
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Lost Several Receiving Addresses #590

Open FrancisVonValkenburg opened 9 years ago

FrancisVonValkenburg commented 9 years ago

I had added a number of receiving addresses for services I operate.
I received a number of payments to those addresses.

My HD where the wallet lived died, unrecoverable, also wiped out rolling backups... I know...

I opened Multibit with a longterm backup I had. All the new receiving addresses are missing and not repopulating as I expected. Funds paid to those addresses are inaccessible to me.

Does this mean that those keys were created with a private key that I no longer have?

Is it possible to add those public keys back to my wallet?

I tried decrypting the wallet with openssl to see what was in there, but I keep getting "error opening input file" which I think has to do with versioning from what I read.

Please let me know if I will be able to recover these coins or not.

gary-rowe commented 9 years ago

This is the fundamental problem with random private keys. If each fresh one is not backed up to a different device then it is at risk (data only exists if it is in two separate places). In your case it appears that the new addresses have not been backed up to a suitable location and thus are no longer accessible. Just having the public side of the key pair is not sufficient to reverse engineer the private key.

MultiBit should be able to open the long term backup given the correct password and then synchronize with the blockchain using the private keys held within. After synchronization completes you will know the receiving addresses and what funds you have access to. Cracking it open with openssl won't yield any more information.

Fundamentally it all comes down to recovering your private keys.

Are you sure that there is no way to recover the data from the failed hard drive? In my experience there are only two types of unrecoverable data loss: physical absence and secure file delete. Forensic data recovery is a lot better than people believe, and even simple commercial grade software can give great results. If you have a lot of bitcoin to recover then the cost of these services is probably worth it and may be possible to claim against as a business expense.

daviet916 commented 9 years ago

I imported my private key and now I'm missing 3,000 worth of coins!!!

gary-rowe commented 8 years ago

We're revisiting old support issues. Were you able to recover any more private keys in the end?

steauacris89 commented 6 years ago

Why you closed this topic Mr Gary .

More and more people have big problems with Multibit and you have not done nothing .

You remember me , 3 years ago Multibit eat my BTC ( APROX 1 BTC ) and noone gived me an explication .

İ know who are you and trust me , i have not forget what you and your friend done .

You have any solution for my problem or i need to take other actions ??

Thank you