If you have the private key or the seed then you may still recover it just log in it to another device but if you don't have then I don't think that you can still recover it, this is the disadvantage of holding bitcoin or any altcoin, if you have lost the access on your device then there is no way for you to recover it unless you have the private key. It is always that you have stored your private key in a piece of paper so if ever your phone has gone then you still have the private key, just make sure that your private key is safe.
Judging by the OP's statement, he didn't back up his Bitcoin wallet at all. So there is no way to get back the lost Bitcoin with the device he has. Unless he knows there might be a chance. That is important when creating or owning a crypto wallet we must back up all of it securely. 
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If you have the private key or the seed then you may still recover it just log in it to another device but if you don't have then I don't think that you can still recover it, this is the disadvantage of holding bitcoin or any altcoin, if you have lost the access on your device then there is no way for you to recover it unless you have the private key. It is always that you have stored your private key in a piece of paper so if ever your phone has gone then you still have the private key, just make sure that your private key is safe.
Didn't read every post, but anyway here is a list of BIP39 words that make up bitcoin's seed phrases. There are 2048 words on the list.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt
Maybe if you had a 12 word phrase (from the BIP 39 wordlist) and you had to type them in once in a while, then looking through the list could jog your memory. Obviously the more words you can remember in the correct location, or the more words you can remember in any location, or maybe the letter that starts a word, the better one of those services that help crack wallets can be in helping you recover.
If you had a 24 word seed and can't remember much then it's probably hopeless.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt
Maybe if you had a 12 word phrase (from the BIP 39 wordlist) and you had to type them in once in a while, then looking through the list could jog your memory. Obviously the more words you can remember in the correct location, or the more words you can remember in any location, or maybe the letter that starts a word, the better one of those services that help crack wallets can be in helping you recover.
If you had a 24 word seed and can't remember much then it's probably hopeless.
If he writes down his wallet's Gmail or password or any other security notebook, he can easily recover his lost bitcoin. If he loses all of the above security systems, he will never be able to recover his lost bitcoin.
I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.
Any advice is extremely welcome.
Any advice is extremely welcome.
Well if you were using a digital wallet, you can access it on other devices by scanning a private key or QR code to import your account. Accessing your BTC wallet should be a piece of cake if that's the case but if your private key lost together with your phone then there's no way you could access your wallet again
I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.
Any advice is extremely welcome.
So if your phone was lost two years back and you have btc stored in wallet you should have tried to recover your phone immediately at that time because two years back btc prices were still good. What's the fun of asking now?Any advice is extremely welcome.
Moreover you don't have any access to your private keys and seed phrase through which you can import your private keys to any other wallet under BIP-39 protocol like electrum, Mycelium or any other.But if you have not backed up seed phrase or private key there no other way you can have your funds back.
"Because in btc whoever have private keys he can spend the funds stored in them and by signing the transaction he is owner of funds." So there's no other way left.
Not unless you have the recovery phrase you won't be able to recover your Bitcoin address. Well I feel sorry for you but I think you won't be able to recover it again.
so it was an old issue but i understand why you cant stand it and post your story in here and that was because of the value of btc sitting on that phone . i believe that the amount you stored on your phone is over 1 btc judging on how you describe its total worth now , damn if that happens to me or to anyone else i think we dont know what to do , it could be that we've lost our minds now but for sure we are going to tell the same story at this forum . anyway you know what to do next , thats right dont make the same mistake
I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.
Any advice is extremely welcome.
Just because Bitcoin comes worth almost 60,000 that's why you are here asking this? because that time Bitcoin is really dealing with too much dump so you tend to think that your Bitcoin (I'm sure Small amount) is worthless and now it has a Value so becomes interested in claiming again?Any advice is extremely welcome.
But sad to say you cannot do anything about it unless you have back up in which you mentioned this is not in your best ways.
and even if you asked 2 years ago ? the response is the same and you cannot win them back .
Since i join in this investment, i already back up more than 3 USB and Store all of my private key on my email.
No matter how you protect your email, private keys/seed are extremely sensitive information to store in this way. Email is something that is often the target of hacking, and if that happens you will lose everything you keep in it. I advise you to keep your private keys offline if at all possible, and if you already want them to be online, make sure they are encrypted.
It would be a dumb mistake if we choose to store our private keys and mnemonic phrases in the mobile phone (unless it’s auto backed up by Google Drive or so but can be hacked if no 2FA or fingerprint login). It reminds me back then of one of my phones that has sudden error with no other option but to force factory reset. But I was lucky back then because I enabled the auto save in my Google Drive, especially the private keys and phrases I have stored in some specific wallets. I immediate wrote them down in my notebook for assurance.
How unfortunate of you OP, you should've made a backup for the seed of your bitcoinwallet. That is the only thing that you can hold onto if anytuing happens to your wallet. this would be a good lesson for you, I hope you think ahead of time nexf time. But let's say you found your phone, if the phone has been reset your wallet would also be good as gone. even with a techie guy with you, it would still be pretty difficult to recover. The only thing you can do now is to learn from this mistake and make sure it never happens again.
I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.
Any advice is extremely welcome.
It is really sad that you've never backup your phone, O feel you brother. I've also lost my phone way back then and didn't back up all of my necessary files including my wallet that has a ethereum that if we will convert it right now it is almost 28k but still I forget it and move on. If you can still login your email or you still know the email that has binded to your wallet and accounts then maybe there is a chance that you may recover again your wallet. But I think it would be hard for you to recover it but still hoping for you to get again your wallet. The moral lesson here is always back up your wallet and phone every time. Any advice is extremely welcome.
Since i join in this investment, i already back up more than 3 USB and Store all of my private key on my email.
No matter how you protect your email, private keys/seed are extremely sensitive information to store in this way. Email is something that is often the target of hacking, and if that happens you will lose everything you keep in it. I advise you to keep your private keys offline if at all possible, and if you already want them to be online, make sure they are encrypted.
If your losing your wallet and with no back up it very stupid mistake and you will learn from that and it will made you be more carefully about your security wallet.
Since i join in this investment, i already back up more than 3 USB and Store all of my private key on my email.
So, even though i lose my phone / my phone broken it doesn't matter anymore.
Since i join in this investment, i already back up more than 3 USB and Store all of my private key on my email.
So, even though i lose my phone / my phone broken it doesn't matter anymore.
The wallet was bitcoin core wallet. I am in the process of syncing transactions from the last 2 years. I don't think it will work since I don't remember ever having the wallet connected to my laptop. I may have downloaded this onto my computer after I lost the phone 2 years ago with hopes of getting it back. That is interesting, I will try to contact the company with email info. I do think you guys are right that I should move on, it is probably a waste of energy. That post of the guy that lost 127million, I guess that must be worth nearly 400 million now. WOW
Since more than two years have passed, the chances of regaining control over the bitcoin wallet lost along with the phone are practically zero. You always need to store data about private keys additionally in a paper version, and it is best not in one place. Cryptocurrency is very vulnerable in terms of losing access to it and this should always be remembered. Those who do not take their security seriously when working with cryptocurrency will incur material losses.
If you link your e-mail, contact number or any way you can retrieve your old account I guess you can get it. But really? 2 years ago? That was a long time ago and if I were you I wouldn't have much hope to get the bitcoin wallet back. Unless you still have access with the contact info you linked in your wallet. If ever you gained that bitcoin wallet back make sure that no one can access it anymore so reset your credentials.
On a different scenario, if you haven't reclaimed it I suggest you create backups and save your information in a safe place so that you won't have to worry if ever you lost your phone again.
On a different scenario, if you haven't reclaimed it I suggest you create backups and save your information in a safe place so that you won't have to worry if ever you lost your phone again.
Looking out for a 2years previously lost phone is something that is unlikely to happen or it could be possible that the phone is spoilt or have some of its hardware components crashed or expired as the case may have it. Your best changes would have been following the instruction during opening a wallet and write down your seed phrase or private key and store it which ever way you feel more comfortable and safe over. Wallet recovery is close to impossible when these vital step is not taken serious. There are several of such cases amongst us left unsolved today. Hope you learn a lesson out of this mistake and do well to take heart as you previously must have not been having thoughts of it but do try, should you see a possibility.
Since you don't have any kind of backup, I doubt you will ever get back your coins. It's lost forever. Nothing you can do. You lost phone probably got "stolen" and the theif has highly likely wiped your phone. So even after you get back your phone, you won't get back your coins.
Don't lose sleep over it. Move on, make sure you learn from this mistake of yours, reinvest whatever you can and make sure think time you backup your wallets properly. It is never too late to start all over again!
Don't lose sleep over it. Move on, make sure you learn from this mistake of yours, reinvest whatever you can and make sure think time you backup your wallets properly. It is never too late to start all over again!
I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.
Any advice is extremely welcome.
Certainly, the way you feel about your lost Bitcoin now is the same way a lot of folks will feel about Dogecoin a few months now. On the advice thing, it's sad to let you know that nothing can be done about you recovering your lost Bitcoin since you don't have a backup or can't remember your private key. It may not have been stolen for the person who picked your lost phone may not even have known about Bitcoin or how to harvest it. But if none of you doesn't get it, the Bitcoin is lost forever.Any advice is extremely welcome.
Next time OP (and others too who fall into this category), always have a security lock on your phone. That way, anyone who steals your phone can't assess your vitals on it. If whoever steals your phone flashes the phone, all stored docs on it will be wiped off and that gets you assured that only you still can restore your files and apps. Also, always back up your stuff offline. Writing them down on papers will do. It's as simple as that.
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