First of all, thanks for all the replies and your time.
Where did you GENERATE the address? Was it from electrum or was it from blockchains website?
What type of wallet do you have? It'll say at the top of the wallet window if it's a "standard wallet" or "watching only"?
It is indeed watching-only, I suppose that that already instantly indicates that Electrum is not related to this address.
I am Just trying to lay out possibilities thou you are not clear on how you got the address you were sending funds to from your Binance account
1. Binance > Withdrew crypto amount into an address I did not even remember putting there, so this is were it even started going wrong (Binance cannot help me though).
There is a possibility you have a clipboard hijacking malware. These malware are usually changes your copied correct bitcoin address to a hacker's bitcoin addresses just as you paste it to the "receiving address" field in your Binance account. It's why you should always cross check your address to every character before confirming the transaction in the email. Indeed binance is not responsible and can not help you
2. For some reason I considered Electrum to be able to open this address so I download the android app and the amount is now as a balance in my electrum wallet (possibly just watching-only but I am not completely understanding this I guess).
Can you please tell us a step by step procedure you used to create or restore your wallet. Did you import the wallet using
- A private key?
- Seed phrase?
- Bitcoin address?
- Master Public key?
- Master Private Key?
-What can Binance secret key and API key do for me or is this not playing a role at all?
the API key is usually used for trading and sometimes withdrawing funds from binance using a third party app or bot like 3commas.io or tabrader. It has nothing to do with your receiving address
Please answer the questions i asked to create a clear picture of the problem.
None of this is relevant at this moment since Electrum is probably just watching only as a used a Master Public Key. I suppose I should try to figure out the source of the address.
The current steps were made to get into this situation:
1. Binance > Withdrew crypto amount into an address I did not even remember putting there, so this is were it even started going wrong (Binance cannot help me though).
2. For some reason I considered Electrum to be able to open this address so I download the android app and the amount is now as a balance in my electrum wallet (possibly just watching-only but I am not completely understanding this I guess).
You will need to identify where this address came from... it seems you downloaded Electrum
after you had already sent the coins from Binance??!?
So, the first question you need to find the answer to is: where did you get that address from?
Did you have Electrum installed on a PC before you installed the android version?
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It was not installed yet, I indeed need to look for the source
The first step sounds so weird. If you don't recognize the address or even adding that to your contact list (since it sounds like you just select the address and not copy pasting it), I'd assume that your account is possibly compromised. The malware issue might be possible too.
Looks like you don't control that address too since you don't have the seed/private key (and no, it is not specifically related to Electrum). Sorry to say this but sounds like you lost your coin already.
This could indeed be one of the stupidest things I have ever did. But as I was mostly using the Binance app I am not entirely sure it is compromised and I probably just need to figure out where the address came from. The balance is also still the amount that I transferred so that implies it is probably not compromised.
OP's problem sounds weird and there's no response yet from the OP. All questions above should be answered by the OP to clarify his problem furthermore.
1. Binance > Withdrew crypto amount into an address I did not even remember putting there, so this is were it even started going wrong (Binance cannot help me though).
Binance wouldn't help you once you already withdrew the amount from them, once the transaction is confirmed by the withdrew address, that's not their problem if you have control on this or even not on the address.
Can you drop it here the withdrawal transaction that found in your Binance account in the withdrawal history? If it is marked as a success, it means your Bitcoin was successfully transferred into the other address. So that we can trace if where goes your Bitcoin sent. If the address were under your control, you will unlikely recover it.
1. Binance > Withdrew crypto amount into an address I did not even remember putting there..
The above question is this, where the address generated come from? How came up you've sent your Bitcoin to that address that even you didn't have under control.
OP didn't manage to reply yet.
Binance can not do anything about this that is correct, I could ask them when the address was initially added that might help for my search of the wallet it is transferred to.
Based on all the above my latest view on this is that I have probably put the address there myself a long time ago and the emailadress linked to this platform's wallet is compromised (this is not the emailadres is used on Binance though and it is recovered for future use). Old e-mails are gone and I can not simply trace the wallet that is used.
I guess I just need to figure out which platform is used for my wallet based on the software/apps that are floating around? Does anyone has any advice on this?
Thanks all, hopefully it will be solved in the end.