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i claimed my coins and they were sent to the address i am holding the private key - and still holding.
till today i do not understand why we first have to create another new address ( the address where the coins get lost ), before the ans where sent to my ico address.
for the ico address i am still holding my privatekey ( and it is backed up ).
i did not see the necessity why i should have keep a privatekey ( where could i have found it???) for something that i never planned to use ( the deleted address ).
i took part in several ico's so far, but never before it was so complicated to get coins from an ico and control them after claiming/ transferring them.
( lisk, waves, peerplays, blockpay, stratis.... )
quite a lot of people are just amateurs in the world of crypto - not experts, but they are prepared to invest their money in ico's - knowing that they can loose their money.
it is not the fact that i might loose this money, it is the way how it happens....
and it as you told us - ans team is planing to change something in the future... but this is to late for me!!!
The private key of your ICO address doesn't serve any purpose now that it is empty ...
You create a wallet and a new address is created in the process, you then import whatever address you hold the private key of, in your wallet.
You can get the private key if you right-click on your address and then "View Private Key", you'll find it in "WIF". Yes I understand that you didn't see the use of storing it, but you never know ...
That's very unfortunate, as you say, a lot of people do not know about this and I don't remember reading something about it on this thread ...
Try to see if you can find some data recovery service, however the more you use your computer the less you have a chance to recover your lost files (in case there was a chance to begin with) :/
yes, indeed it is very unfortunate that you can't read anything about saving the privatekey of the new created wallet ( which will normaly never be used ).
every wallet is different and it takes some till you out all the things: backup, 2 fa....
i saved the privatekey from the ico,because this has been told so many times: WHEN YOU LOOSE YOUR PRIVATEKEY...." this was one of the first things i have done: saving my private key. but no furhter instructions about how the wallet would work and just to click on "view private key" and also make a backup oft the first created wallet. it would have been so easy, if somebody told me before.
hopefully these experience will help to improve the windows wallet ,but for me it was a quite expensive experience!!!!
i have never lost a coin this way before. so before your are shred your wallet ( for what reasons ever ) have look for any kind of backups or just leave the wallet how it is, improvements are coming sooner or later....!!!
so, before you want to delete or shred a wallet file in the future - think about the guy who shreded his wallet with mcaffee and didn't make a backup of the existing privatekeys....