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FORGOT ELECTRUM PASSWORD HOW TO
FORGOT ELECTRUM PASSWORD INSTALL
FORGOT ELECTRUM PASSWORD MANUAL
FORGOT ELECTRUM PASSWORD FOR ANDROID
FORGOT ELECTRUM PASSWORD PASSWORD

I tried following along but seem to be stuck.

FORGOT ELECTRUM PASSWORD PASSWORD

However, since i’m using Tails, without rather in-depth knowledge of linux, you can’t just “uninstall and reinstall” a program… so i have had a significant chunk of money stuck in this wallet for almost a month now, with no way of getting it out, because i can’t reset the password (whenever i try “restoring” my wallet, it just creates a copy and skips over the step of choosing a password – leaving the old password intact), and i can’t SEND the bitcoin to another wallet, because sending requires that you type in your GD password!! someone please for the love of god help me! the only way to get back to the first step, where you’re asked to set a password, is if you delete and uninstall electrum all together, reinstall it, and start over. i saved the seed, but foolishly never saved the password, which has long been forgotten.Įverywhere i read – the solution should be simple – “just restore your wallet using the seed” – but unfortunately that does NOT allow you to bypass the fact that you have a password assigned to that wallet. To ANYONE reading this that can help… when i created my original default wallet, i created a password.

Finally it generates your addresses and displays the electrum window:.

This is optional but strongly recommended:

Electrum now asks you to enter a password to protect your wallet file.

Note also that the single quotes in the derivation path are not optional. For example: m/44’/0’/1′ to restore the second HD account, m/44’/0’/2′ for the third HD acccount etc.

Do this again and again until you have recovered all HD accounts. If the recovered wallet does not reflect all your funds repeat the restoration process with a new wallet file and increment the last number. Note that last digit in the derivation path denotes the HD account number. Choose the legacy p2pkh option if the addresses in the originating wallet begin with ‘1’, p2sh-segwit if they begin with ‘3’ and native segwit if they begin with ‘bc1’: not Electrum) you will be shown this window below.

If your seed words are from a bip39 wallet (i.e.

Schildbach then follow the guide here instead.

FORGOT ELECTRUM PASSWORD FOR ANDROID

If the originating wallet is MultibitHD, Bread Wallet or Bitcoin Wallet for Android by A. It should display ‘BIP39 checksum OK” next to the options button when you’ve entered a valid bip39 seed mnemonic. If the seed words are from Bither wallet then make sure you replace the hyphens in the seed phrase with spaces. Note: If the seed words are from another wallet, like the wallet, Bither or Mycelium, then you have to press options and check bip39.

Once you’ve entered valid seed words the next button will become enabled and you’ll be able to proceed to the next step.

In the next step electrum asks you to choose where the wallet secret will come from.

You need to select the same type of wallet that you are restoring which in this case is the “Standard wallet”

Click on next to see the wallet type selection window:Īs you can see Electrum supports different types of wallets.

Begin by creating a new wallet file as per this guide.

Sweeping your private keys into Electrum.

Restoring your standard wallet from seed.

Restoring your MultibitHD or BRD Wallet in Electrum.

Importing your private keys into Electrum.

FORGOT ELECTRUM PASSWORD HOW TO

How to use the Electrum label sync plugin.

How to switch to a different Electrum server.

How to spend specific UTXOs in Electrum.

How to spend from an offline paper wallet using Electrum.

How to recover access to the bitcoins in your 2fa wallet.

FORGOT ELECTRUM PASSWORD INSTALL

How to install Electrum on a Debian or Ubuntu live CD.

FORGOT ELECTRUM PASSWORD MANUAL

How to do a manual Child Pays For Parent transaction.

Creating a watch-only version of your 2fa wallet.

Creating a P2SH Segwit Wallet with Electrum.

Creating a Cold Storage wallet in Electrum.

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Any imported Private Keys (Keys that you added to your old wallet through the "Import Private Key" button).

The labels (names) for each of your history entries.

All of your contacts in the contacts tab.

If you want to have your newly restored wallet open by default when you open electrum, find your wallet folder (Users//Appdata/Roaming/electrum/wallets for Windows 7) and rename default_wallet.wallet file to something else (this is probably your old wallet you forgot the password to) then rename your newly restored wallet to default_wallet.wallet.

Choose a new password that you won't forget, but that is strong enough to not be hacked.

Input the 12 words string you received when creating your wallet.

Choose the option to "restore wallet from seed".

click "New Wallet" and choose a name to name it.