Topic: Can i get my bitcoin back? - page 10. (Read 2923 times)
no way. Unfortunately
Cheers guys I thought as much, i'll break it to him gently that it's gone for good.
This is the only option left for you to just go and tell him that no one can help you with recovering your bitcoin as private keys are main to rebuild the wallet and use your bitcoins. Just forget and move forward in life.
nope not yet. Easier to restore the phone 
He lost 0.58 so nothing major, he can still see the balance on the blockchain so he no doubt he'll be watching that balance grow in the future, he remembers it was worth around $110 at the time.
.58BTC? its worth 10x by now if his initial investment is $110. And just like what others have said, you need your private keys to retrieved your friends bitcoin. I also have lost bitcoins in the past, and the only thing that cheers me up is that I can earn that bitcoin back. It will took me months though to be able to at least break even with my investment.
He lost 0.58 so nothing major, he can still see the balance on the blockchain so he no doubt he'll be watching that balance grow in the future, he remembers it was worth around $110 at the time.
A friend of mine had some Bitcoin on his phone a couple of years ago and he's lost that phone which stored the private keys on without any other backup. We can see his balance on the blockchain and he knows his password for the private keys. Is there a way of creating the private key from the bitcoin address and the known password?
No. Private keys is the only way to access your bitcoin but if you lost your private keys, you cannot access your address so, your coins will be lost forever. If you are thinking that you can brute force it, forget it. It will take a million years or longer before you can found your private key so, next time make a back up of your private keys..
Nope...Just curious, how many bitcoins is it? lol.
What type of phone was it, was there any type of cloud storage on that phone? Since you said there is no other backup, I am assuming that means no.
Did he have 1password or any other program on that phone that could have potentially backed up and of the important files that are needed?
Those could theoretically be somewhere in the cloud if any of his apps were writing backups to dropbox or something like that...
Did he have 1password or any other program on that phone that could have potentially backed up and of the important files that are needed?
Those could theoretically be somewhere in the cloud if any of his apps were writing backups to dropbox or something like that...
Cheers guys I thought as much, i'll break it to him gently that it's gone for good.
This is the only option left for you to just go and tell him that no one can help you with recovering your bitcoin as private keys are main to rebuild the wallet and use your bitcoins. Just forget and move forward in life.
Cheers guys I thought as much, i'll break it to him gently that it's gone for good.
A friend of mine had some Bitcoin on his phone a couple of years ago and he's lost that phone which stored the private keys on without any other backup. We can see his balance on the blockchain and he knows his password for the private keys. Is there a way of creating the private key from the bitcoin address and the known password?
It's the keys duty to open up your treasure chest (wallet). And if you lost the keys there's no way to open it for you mate. The only possible way to recover those bitcoins is when you had recovered the phone and check the private keys and restore your wallet. This is a lesson learned, try to write your keys on a plain paper next time.
Nope.
A friend of mine had some Bitcoin on his phone a couple of years ago and he's lost that phone which stored the private keys on without any other backup. We can see his balance on the blockchain and he knows his password for the private keys. Is there a way of creating the private key from the bitcoin address and the known password?
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