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Quote from: Gosgosking on June 13, 2022, 06:00:31 PM

I don't know if seed phrase that was screenshot by op was in his phone gallery or a private place in his phone. If the screenshot seed phrase was saved it in the gallery, it was not in a safer place because anyone close to op phone and have access to his gallery and get information of the wallet. Op took risk by not saving seed phrase properly.

Most of the time our phone is been security locked or does have pin or fingerprint even with family members then there's no way that could be accessed out but for the sake of safety and security
then it would be good if you would be creating something new and transfer those coins into that new wallet yet being paranoid for security isnt really that bad because we do have that kind of saying that
its better to be safe than sorry. Creating one wont really be that hard and doesnt really cost an arm and leg. Lucky for those people who had able to remember that they had something for a long time.
In my case, i might able to forget those things and i might had lost those screenshots.

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I don't know if seed phrase that was screenshot by op was in his phone gallery or a private place in his phone. If the screenshot seed phrase was saved it in the gallery, it was not in a safer place because anyone close to op phone and have access to his gallery and get information of the wallet. Op took risk by not saving seed phrase properly.

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Quote from: doomloop on June 11, 2022, 09:39:05 AM

Quote from: buwaytress on June 10, 2022, 06:41:13 AM

Could never happen to me as have always kept a close eye on all my stashes, save the few faucet sites way back when I didn't know what I was doing or never had a wallet. I do often think back on all those dust -- back when minimum withdraws were still $10 or something and BTC wasn't even $1000. Pretty depressing fantasising.

I do have some alt wallets thrown out I'll never recover. Proper deleted and wiped HDD in a sordid spring cleaning exercise years ago. One or two make me shed a tear heh.

The point you said it could never happen to you got me laughing hard, like you are always keeping a close eye on them. It’s necessary you do so for fear of losing out, because it’s almost like a risk, forgetting or abandoning your wallets. I do love the way the whole system was configured, you get to re-access an app, an account or wallet after so long. Kudos to technology, Kudos to Crypto.

In all and in general, I advise everyone to find safer places to store their key phrases, screenshots are not mostly reliable on, because such backups could fail in most cases!

Yeah, I really can't see myself getting a new wallet and getting BTC into it and then forgetting about it. Not in 2016, and surely not now...

I also don't keep much balances in services (casinos generally, sportsbooks... Exchanges not anything for more than a few hours) so even if I might forget about them, or they die, no way I stumble upon those in future. Not my keys, and all that.

Screenshots? Gives me an idea actually. Obscure a couple, or leave out, but yeah maybe one other way. Wallpaper it (physically) ha ha.

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Quote from: buwaytress on June 10, 2022, 06:41:13 AM

Could never happen to me as have always kept a close eye on all my stashes, save the few faucet sites way back when I didn't know what I was doing or never had a wallet. I do often think back on all those dust -- back when minimum withdraws were still $10 or something and BTC wasn't even $1000. Pretty depressing fantasising.

I do have some alt wallets thrown out I'll never recover. Proper deleted and wiped HDD in a sordid spring cleaning exercise years ago. One or two make me shed a tear heh.

The point you said it could never happen to you got me laughing hard, like you are always keeping a close eye on them. It’s necessary you do so for fear of losing out, because it’s almost like a risk, forgetting or abandoning your wallets. I do love the way the whole system was configured, you get to re-access an app, an account or wallet after so long. Kudos to technology, Kudos to Crypto.

In all and in general, I advise everyone to find safer places to store their key phrases, screenshots are not mostly reliable on, because such backups could fail in most cases!

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Quote from: Newchanka on April 01, 2022, 07:25:38 AM

So I needed some funds to make up for a payment. I contacted three of my clients who were supposed to pay for some writing jobs but the payments were delayed. I was getting frantic when I remembered that one of my old Blockchain wallets. I started wondering if the wallet I hadn't used for years could have some valuable bitcoins. I also remembered that I had the seed words in my phone as a screenshot (crazy!) so I imported the wallet. Boy, you wouldn't believe how much I had in there. Not up to all the money I needed but enough to make a difference.

I wonder who else has access to old wallets

If this is true, then congrats! You have now instant money out of the blue. But next time, be responsible in keeping your seeds as they could be more safe if you'll save it in a secured place than just a simple screenshot that can only be deleted accidentally. Otherwise, don't expect that by next time you will still be able to recover again your old wallet as its not all the time that the same situation permits.

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Could never happen to me as have always kept a close eye on all my stashes, save the few faucet sites way back when I didn't know what I was doing or never had a wallet. I do often think back on all those dust -- back when minimum withdraws were still $10 or something and BTC wasn't even $1000. Pretty depressing fantasising.

I do have some alt wallets thrown out I'll never recover. Proper deleted and wiped HDD in a sordid spring cleaning exercise years ago. One or two make me shed a tear heh.

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Quote from: AakZaki on June 10, 2022, 05:59:40 AM

~snipe~

This explains why most hackers tends to target mostly exchanges but the success is often limited to resources and having an insider to do the other parts of job. Malware and Phishing actually works too and another is using brute force. Where the hacker gets to send several passwords or seeds until it eventually searches out the actual one. All this becomes the sole cause of the attention you draw to yourself in holding large funds within a single wallet address. You can generate a new address each time you want to receive funds and it all leads to a single wallet so, why not do that and stay off the hooks of having to much!

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Quote from: uchegod-21 on June 08, 2022, 04:41:03 PM

I believe one thing but what I am reading is making me doubt what I have believed.
When we speak about hacking or stealing anything like seed phrase that is screenshoted.
I have a question, does hackers go on searching everyone's phone to see screenshot that has seed phrase?
I think there should be some signs of bitcoin that will attract hackers.
What I mean in essence is that how will a hacker understand that he saved his seed phrase in screenshot before thinking about how to hack it?

Hackers won't search everyone's phone. They have their own targets which they have marked. The people who are targeted for hacking are those who are heavily involved in crypto and those who don't really care about their security. One of the easy targets to be hacked is those who have a lot of assets that are publicly disclosed with the addresses they have, this certainly attracts hackers to start stalking them and perform several methods to get into the victim's device. and some other hackers also use random methods to hack one of them by using malware, phishing and the like.

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Quote from: Finestream on June 08, 2022, 03:58:40 PM

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I have this same experience since I'm saving my seed phrase using a screenshot of my phone. I have many wallets since 2015 that I'm using to claim faucets and I totally forgot it since I stop involving in cryptocurrency after I become busy with my studies and I don't remember where I save my seed phrase when I get back again in Bitcoin after many years of inactive. I'm just lucky to see the seed phrase screenshot when I'm transferring all the photos of my old phone to my computer to make a backup. The amount is not that huge but it's good enough since it almost equals to my 1 year salary at work.

That's probably huge, mate. Not all were given chances to have stored cryptos in their old wallet, so i must say you really are lucky. But if you are still doing some screenshots on your current wallet, i don't think that will be a good idea since you are putting your seed words in danger once other people can access your phone. Try to be more careful when it comes to your savings accounts, as you may not want to lost them in times when you badly needed funds because you're in trouble with your finances.

Lucky for him, in the sense;

1. He didnt delete those screenshot
2. The phone hasnt reformatted
3. It wasnt seen by someone who holds the phone
4. Mobile malware

Once you do experience these things then say goodbye on your wallet
yet any PK exposed then expect on what would happen next.

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Quote from: Majestic-milf on June 08, 2022, 08:35:19 AM

Quite a risky approach to screenshot your seed phrase but good thing that the BTC wallet came through for you when you needed it the most.

risky or not depends on how to save the screenshot. Although saving in a text file will also be dangerous if you are not careful in saving the file. I even have a lot of screenshots and it's still safe as long as the security of the device is under my control.
I have several BTC wallets, some of which still have BTC and some even forgot the key.

I believe one thing but what I am reading is making me doubt what I have believed.
When we speak about hacking or stealing anything like seed phrase that is screenshoted.
I have a question, does hackers go on searching everyone's phone to see screenshot that has seed phrase?
I think there should be some signs of bitcoin that will attract hackers.
What I mean in essence is that how will a hacker understand that he saved his seed phrase in screenshot before thinking about how to hack it?

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I have this same experience since I'm saving my seed phrase using a screenshot of my phone. I have many wallets since 2015 that I'm using to claim faucets and I totally forgot it since I stop involving in cryptocurrency after I become busy with my studies and I don't remember where I save my seed phrase when I get back again in Bitcoin after many years of inactive. I'm just lucky to see the seed phrase screenshot when I'm transferring all the photos of my old phone to my computer to make a backup. The amount is not that huge but it's good enough since it almost equals to my 1 year salary at work.

That's probably huge, mate. Not all were given chances to have stored cryptos in their old wallet, so i must say you really are lucky. But if you are still doing some screenshots on your current wallet, i don't think that will be a good idea since you are putting your seed words in danger once other people can access your phone. Try to be more careful when it comes to your savings accounts, as you may not want to lost them in times when you badly needed funds because you're in trouble with your finances.

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Quote from: Majestic-milf on June 08, 2022, 08:35:19 AM

Quite a risky approach to screenshot your seed phrase but good thing that the BTC wallet came through for you when you needed it the most.

risky or not depends on how to save the screenshot. Although saving in a text file will also be dangerous if you are not careful in saving the file. I even have a lot of screenshots and it's still safe as long as the security of the device is under my control.
I have several BTC wallets, some of which still have BTC and some even forgot the key.

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Congratulations, we here do not know exactly how many bitcoins you found, but you are lucky to have found them. To be honest, I don't think someone saved the phrases on their phone and luckily it hasn't been deleted or stolen by someone. Taking screenshots and storing them directly on your phone with an internet connection is risky, as no one will do this as an investor.

From your story, I think we can draw a lesson for those who want to sell their bitcoins, hold on the value of bitcoin can only increase and will reward those who hold.

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Quote from: Newchanka on April 01, 2022, 07:25:38 AM

So I needed some funds to make up for a payment. I contacted three of my clients who were supposed to pay for some writing jobs but the payments were delayed. I was getting frantic when I remembered that one of my old Blockchain wallets. I started wondering if the wallet I hadn't used for years could have some valuable bitcoins. I also remembered that I had the seed words in my phone as a screenshot (crazy!) so I imported the wallet. Boy, you wouldn't believe how much I had in there. Not up to all the money I needed but enough to make a difference.

I wonder who else has access to old wallets

Quite a risky approach to screenshot your seed phrase but good thing that the BTC wallet came through for you when you needed it the most.

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Quote from: Gosgosking on June 06, 2022, 05:12:58 PM

You are lucky because firstly some wallet it is is not possible to screenshot the seed Phrase directly from the wallet but you were able to do that. You are lucky to get access to your old wallet when you were in the tight corner of need of money.

Without a doubt the OP got lucky, how many times we have heard of similar stories in which someone needed some money and they remember they had some bitcoin only to realize the wallet where they stored those bitcoins is no longer available for some reason or they have lost their seed words?

This is a very common scenario, so while I am happy for the OP since he was able to recover that bitcoin and pay up his debts, he needs to keep track of his bitcoin otherwise he may not be as lucky the next time something like this happens to him.

Yes, the OP is very lucky and because of the debt that makes him feel called to do it and remember or wish good luck.
because when in a position of stress by debt or need, and when that happens, it comes to mind to remember some wallets that haven't been used for a long time and try to recover them, and hope There are some bitcoins left behind or forgotten. And I've been in that position before and I did but unfortunately I haven't had any luck.

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I have access to my original bitcoin wallet. The balance is zero but when i count the transactions over the years i found i had over 350 bitcoin go through it but i have nothing. Angry

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Quote from: Gosgosking on June 06, 2022, 05:12:58 PM

You are lucky because firstly some wallet it is is not possible to screenshot the seed Phrase directly from the wallet but you were able to do that. You are lucky to get access to your old wallet when you were in the tight corner of need of money.

Without a doubt the OP got lucky, how many times we have heard of similar stories in which someone needed some money and they remember they had some bitcoin only to realize the wallet where they stored those bitcoins is no longer available for some reason or they have lost their seed words?

This is a very common scenario, so while I am happy for the OP since he was able to recover that bitcoin and pay up his debts, he needs to keep track of his bitcoin otherwise he may not be as lucky the next time something like this happens to him.

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Glad to hear bitcoin came through for you when you really needed it but i I would suggest doing a bit better or a job keeping track of your funds across the board. Also I don’t think I need to tell you that you shouldn’t keep your seed phrases saved anywhere except offline.

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Quote from: Gosgosking on June 06, 2022, 05:12:58 PM

You are lucky because firstly some wallet it is is not possible to screenshot the seed Phrase directly from the wallet but you were able to do that. You are lucky to get access to your old wallet when you were in the tight corner of need of money.

Lucky on the sense that you havent lost those screenshot or copy of your private keys specially if you do mind off on being one of the early fellas who do get involved with Bitcoin or altcoins into their early years

which it would be a good call if you do remember that you have some good amounts of coins in your wallet and then you suddenly remember on where you stored it and find out and able to access it.

It would really be a life changing scenario if you have keep lots of amounts plus having the increase of its value in years time.

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You are lucky because firstly some wallet it is is not possible to screenshot the seed Phrase directly from the wallet but you were able to do that. You are lucky to get access to your old wallet when you were in the tight corner of need of money.

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