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Bither - a simple and secure Bitcoin wallet!
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Importing old key #18

Closed chrismarquardt closed 8 years ago

chrismarquardt commented 8 years ago

Hope this is the right place for this. Through a hardware defect I lost an old Bither cold wallet on an Android phone. As far as I remember it was not an HD wallet, e.g. from an older Bither version. I have the encrypted private key and the password to decrypt it. What is the best way to decrypt this key?

chrismarquardt commented 8 years ago

The key is not in BIP38 format, but it was saved from Bither when the cold wallet was first created. This is the format (it's not the actual key, but the same number of characters):

38AF00CF56FAC4A1A2E9DB216EDA2B90870DB6586AEA42B360407D81596A527984A76AE092D8BE27F03E58048E799BBD:34EF06A8C6C2B44819B20AB28991CB3B:3DBA2EEE635EA101

Again, I have the encryption password, but I can't seem to import this into Bither.

chrismarquardt commented 8 years ago

Okay, thanks to someone on Reddit having an idea, we solved the problem. You can close this issue.

Solution: convert string to QR code and then import it as a "Bither Private Key QR Code" - I would have never thought of this. Maybe change the Bither private text key import to recognize the ascii format? This has cost me almost a day of research.

bithernet commented 8 years ago

Sorry for the delay. Since you have already solved this, I will close this issue.

:)