Topic: Multibit restoring wallet not working (reset also not working) funds STUCK. (Read 5313 times)

You can try this guide if you're still having problems restoring your wallet: https://coin.space/how-do-i-restore-a-multibit-hd-wallet/ 

To export your private keys, open your wallet and enter the menu option 'Tools | Export Private Keys'.
You will be able to choose a directory to store your text file containing the private keys. You will need to get that text file onto your PC to import the priv keys into electrum (or any other wallet you have chosen).

Note that you should either sweep the keys into a new electrum wallet (which makes the private keys useless, moving all funds to your new electrum wallet) or import them into a wallet and send them to a new electrum wallet (the reason is that you will have a HD wallet with private keys derived from the 12-/24- word seed instead of needing to rely on the wallet file itself).


To read more about exporting private keys from multibit: https://multibit.org/help/v0.4/help_exportingPrivateKeys.html
To read more about importing/sweeping into electrum: http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-import-private-keys-from-other-bitcoin-clients

That is GREAT news.  I'm going to try the Electrum route.  I've had funds stuck in "unconfirmed" on Multibit 0.4.1. for some time now and have researched on how to fix this, but I want to get this done and leave this all behind for good.

How can I get the program to show/give me my 12 words or private keys?  That way I can  import it into a Bread wallet or Electrum one.  I don't want to do anything to the program without getting those keys.  I have the password that opens the wallet, but that won't let me import it anywhere else.  Have reset, repaired and done everything else short of upgrading to .0.5xx.

Multibit-HD is a piece of junk.

I had unconfirmed funds.  Tried restoring all the different versions did wallet repair, wallet restore would wait hours for multibit-HD to scan the block chain.  Nothing ever worked.

Then I discovered you could create a multibit-hd compatible wallet in electrum

downloaded electrum from https://electrum.org/#download

followed the youtube "how to" and bingo within a few minutes all my transactions and balance turned up in electrum.

As of writing this I haven't received funds or sent funds but my major hurdle of having a wallet with funds showing was my main goal !

Hope this helps other frustrated users of multibit-HD !!!!

Sorry for being late... but I believe the unconfirmed balance issue was solved in a newer version of MBHD... The latest version is 0.5.1. However, it has other issues at the moment.

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If both wallets are online and working properly you should see your funds simultaneously move in both wallets when you send them from BreadWallet. I don't know if your multibitHD will become usable by transferring a small amount of coins because I don't know what bug made it unusable.

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Yes, the wallet words are the only thing you need to backup to secure your Bitcoins (unless you used a password combined with your wallet words). You can use them in alternative wallets with compatible wallet word formats for disaster recovery. Bread wallet has a compatible wallet word format to multibitHD, so you can use it to access your multibitHD Bitcoins.

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We aren't allowed to post Bitcoin addresses in threads, but you can find mine in my profile at this link.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/hi-tec99-325680
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I sent you a beer for your help.  The funds did move in both wallets,  however MultiBit HD is still showing the full value of the wallet as unconfirmed.  The bug is the unconfirmed XBT bug...  which is apparently a common one with MultiBit HD.  My whole value in MultiBit HD is displayed as unconfirmed.  The last time I moved funds was in 2015,  so there are plenty of confirms between then and now!  LOL

When I moved funds to you,  it appeared instantly on MultiBit,  and the value was adjusted....  BUT the whole value is still unconfirmed in MultiBit.

In short,  this demonstrates how wallet words can save the day!

Thanks for your help,  and enjoy the pint! 

If both wallets are online and working properly you should see your funds simultaneously move in both wallets when you send them from BreadWallet. I don't know if your multibitHD will become usable by transferring a small amount of coins because I don't know what bug made it unusable.


Yes, the wallet words are the only thing you need to backup to secure your Bitcoins (unless you used a password combined with your wallet words). You can use them in alternative wallets with compatible wallet word formats for disaster recovery. Bread wallet has a compatible wallet word format to multibitHD, so you can use it to access your multibitHD Bitcoins.


We aren't allowed to post Bitcoin addresses in threads, but you can find mine in my profile at this link.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/hi-tec99-325680

Took a long time to sync,  but that has mostly to do with my 4/1 internet connection that is through a cellular hub (no landline service here). Importing my exact wallet words from MultiBit HD 0.4.1 (Mac OSX version) to BreadWallet seems to have worked.  

My 3 transactions are now showing in BreadWallet (dates match the MultiBit HD Wallet),  and it looks like BreadWallet worked great,  but I will need to test.  

Q- I still have MultiBit running,  and I am curious what will happen when I send some funds using BreadWallet?  Would my MultiBit wallet be/become usable by transferring a small amount of coins?

Q- Do wallet words essentially allow the "syncing" of funds over several wallets using what is essentially a private key (being my wallet words)?  Is this a form of redundancy?

In closing, I would like to test all this by buying HI-TEC99 a pint of beer for your help...  could you PM me a receiving address at your convenience?

Thank-you

Yesw, according to BioChanger you just use your same twelve wallet words to import the keys. He says bread wallet does not support more than 12 words.

Another user called TraderCal11 also says bread wallet successfully imported his multibit wallet words.

Thanks so much for the reply.  I am using MultiBit HD 0.4.1

To be clear,  I just use my same wallet words to import the keys and essentially the funds with breadwallet?

Thank for your help,  and once I unlock my funds I will send a beer or two.

The simplest fix is to install bread wallet on your phone and import your wallet words into it. There's been an iPhone version of bread wallet for years, and last summer they released an android version.

If you install bread wallet make sure it's the real one. There was a fake bread wallet put on the Apple store six months ago. Its probably been removed by now, but others might appear.

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4x0inz/important_a_fake_breadwallet_app_was_just_added/

This is the official bread wallet site where you can get links to the real thing.

https://breadwallet.com/

I posted an alternative solution to a similar problem in the post linked below, but that fix is more work. It involves putting your wallet words into an offline webpage that generates a set of addresses and private keys. You can then import any private keys containing Bitcoins into any type of wallet you want (electrum gives you instant access to your coins).

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17773212

The screenshots in the post linked below show what settings to put into the offline webpage.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17819126

Does anybody know of a standard way to deal with the unconfirmed balance bug.

I have had MultiBit HD since august 2015,  and I have dealt with the bug before using a wallet restore using my wallet words.

Now,  it appears the bug is back,  and I am having a hard time clearing this one...  I have a slow internet connection,  so synchronizing over and over doesn't help the patience either.

 I just want to get the funds out,  and move to another program, while I await a Trezor as I don't have time to deal with this issue again and again. 

I have renamed the directory,  tried a restore using words.  Anybody help here?


Thanks

Bread wallet works it just requires the 12 words seen (It does not support more than 12 words) I was very lucky having 12 words seen password.


I thank to god that now I can move to another wallet with serious developers and hopefully all will go better than this.

Thank you for your support, you've been rewarded with $20 BTC worth for the help.

Have a great day and keep up the good work.

Thanks, my Bitcoin address in in my profile page (we aren't allowed to post addresses in threads).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile

For others with the same problem how does bread wallet work? Do you just import your wallet words into it, and did you use the android version?

Thank you HI-TEC99 for the quick answers, I finally was able to do this using the BreadWallet I quickly transferred my coins to a temp wallet in Blockchain until I do some research about new software wallets.


As promised, I'd like to reward you for the support and cooperation with me in this matter, please post below your BTC address and I'll reward you with some coins.

You said earlier you managed to recover $40 with a private key. Does that address show up in the addresses you are trying?




Someone else with a multibit HD problem solved it by importing keys into bread wallet. I know there's a bread wallet for the iPhone, and I think there's now an android version. You could try that, although I have not used bread wallet yet. I don't know if you put wallet words into it, or import private keys into it.

Was not quick but took around 15 minutes. Shall I try adding more and more BTC addresses until it appears in the electrum wallet? it will work?

Other question, if I keep putting new addresses and I check in the blockchain and there is no historial (no received no sent coins from that address) it means the address not exist in the wallet but if I create a new address that would be the next? because I just tried lots of addresses and none of them with balance.

How did you copy around 10k of addresses into electrum so quickly?

The only thing you import is the list of private keys shown  on that web page. This is an example list of private keys for the first five addresses including the one you generated in multibit (1EzCCawrCJf33TzwAhEY4ffUBABSACk5cz).


L2BRfUPreAzmaCwbDYXBBPoCYsPQKjnT6uEY1X7GH2qdJUrMV1Kc
Kz6jvwvAbi8DFw99MUbfrBc2rMcH3EDbv4YfqmcXpdWG1qhFZwew
KzhLdGURnKne8HvTdxmK61CXvvb99gjCWxua2t7mxn3D11d7bGFR
Kyez85nGijQATac8ej2tr44KawNe12nsoKFGMTpVrz6YnhVCD3HP
Kyh7BqAHH6gFFMfP3EaoXbg8R67UfAZuZJZcR5hBz1iFwHKc2pYr

These are the settings I put into the page to recover your address 1EzCCawrCJf33TzwAhEY4ffUBABSACk5cz.








If an address has had some, but not all of its Bitcoins sent out from multibit then the change gets sent to the list of addresses below. The screenshot shows the settings I used to recover those addresses.

Now I tried and it and it appears in the top, so I went ahead again and try with my wallet details and loaded around 10k of addresses which I think is less but just to be sure, copied them and imported to Electrum and my balance remains 0.

any suggestions?

Multibit HD can use your 12 wallet words to generate an unlimited number of addresses.

I tested recovering your address 1EzCCawrCJf33TzwAhEY4ffUBABSACk5cz using the wallet words in that webpage. It was at the top of the list the webpage generated. If you had used multibit to generate more than one address it should have generated the same ones listed below that I copied from that webpage.

Using m/0'/0 the page generated these addresses.

1EzCCawrCJf33TzwAhEY4ffUBABSACk5cz
1Ma2L9vswGsHHwS3vLTvK1JqKkjdnJC8vy
1LiAzwrtrF37RrnE3LD9Z5KNvTo9mnHJ4V
1EsFnXZAkTwVKw2igqaQ13mgM8y5NQdp3x
18w26GebKe6TgNTLm5NzhgKowbdqYurQYj

Using m/0'/1 the page generated these addresses.

1G5THFo12YmrZWTLVHxmPnVWbodKn2jwKa
1PkkLzJYYf1KiLxk3MPxNEcgrr7mou6dVC
18Ejc8ynMDqs3pVnrEwz2QZVjSCURPprro
1AJadtfg6QKLVsRJiqNfBqu1jMupiS2ytY
12jXUrCirc1oQeTVXfvoH4z38bKJUEv3mj

Not even trying that.

Here is a example pay attention:

I just created a new wallet using Multibit HD, then I created one and ONLY one bitcoin address which is:
1EzCCawrCJf33TzwAhEY4ffUBABSACk5cz


Multibit HD 12 words seen:
minor betray indicate trouble busy tragic easy diesel gravity window peasant satisfy

Now, if you go to the site and try yourself. It will provide you a lots of BTC address but how is that possible? If there is only ONE btc address linked to that wallet.


The site is not accurate. My coins still locked in Multibit and repairing or switching computers wont work. I also sent a message to the developers but I dunno they will care.

Your derivation paths are wrong. MultiBit uses BIP 44 for derivation paths, not the normal BIP 32 derivation paths. It should be m/44'/0'/0'/k/i

In your original MultiBit wallet, go to Tools > Repair Wallet (or something like that) and see if that works.

I don't  know what the problem is, that webpage worked for me when I tested it with a multibit HD seed.

What do you mean by "it still provides me +1k even more"?

Yes I did, it still gives me random addresses that are not linked with my main wallet, I invite you to try yourself.

I just made a test wallet with 3 BTC address and it still provides me +1k even more...

How is that possible?

Did you click the BIP32 Derivation tab before you entered m/0'/0 or m/0'/1?


You need to click the tab before you enter m/0'/0 or m/0'/1.

If you didn't click the tab the webpage will look like this.





If you clicked the tab the webpage will look like this.

Thank you for the fast replies again.

I have tried the "Show more rows" option it just keep providing addresses that are not mine. Also I wanted to test it myself and I just went ahead and made a new Multibit HD wallet with 5 addresses. I went to the page and put all the seed and stuff. And it provides me unlimited BTC addresses that are not linked to that wallet.

At the bottom of that webpage there is a textbox marked "Show more rows:". You could try increasing the number of rows it shows until none of the addresses it shows have made any transactions.

Try this
https://i.gyazo.com/d6c3a35284f31806bb0e07ee291d5bba.png

I've now succeed putting all my priv keys into electrum and it just has not recovered not even a cent of my money stuck.

Any ideas?

I can't see the picture,  the  bitcointalk image proxy says it's invalid.

I'm doing this now but Electrum is synchronizing all the private keys and its taking too long, here is a picture:

https://gyazo.com/de4a30f522d02d636d13e6dc1b5e1bce

Is it normal ?

Which are you importing your private keys into?

If you use electrum you can import them all in one go. You don't have to import them separately, you can import a list of them.

Now its giving me addresses and after trying for about 1 hour I only recovered $40 with the private key. This will take me years to verify each address as this wallet is SO long , and multibit HD provided me a new address for each new payment.

Is there any way to resolve my client again?

Don't check "Supply my own source of entropy".

Put your 12 words from multibit seed into the text box marked "BIP39 Mnemonic".

Click the BIP32 Derivation Path tab and try m/0'/0 and also m/0'/1 again.

Here is what I'm trying to do:

I go to: https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39/

Then I put "Supply my own source of entropy"
Mnemonic Length: Use raw entropy 3 words per 32 bits
Entropy: I put my 12 words from multibit seed
Derivation Path: I click on BIP32
BIP32 Derivation Path: m/0'/0 and tried also m/0'/1


Then it provides me with BTC addresses but none of them are mine, checked them all

Is there any other site like this that I could try or did I something wrong?

Thank you for the help.

Did you try putting the text below in the BIP32 Derivation Path box?

m/0'/0

Did you also try putting the text below in the BIP32 Derivation Path box to check if your Bitcoins are in change addresses?

m/0'/1

If you have used Multibit for 1 year it's likely you made at least one transaction. After any transaction multibit HD might have sent your remaining Bitcoins to a change address.

Tried them all and nothing new, I've spent 8 hours googling yesterday. I regret that I choose using Multibit I swear. Too much money stuck.

Also, this page: https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39/
I provide my 12 words seed and it provides me with a list of public and private addresses but none of them are mine, and all has 0 BTC.

Need this fixed...

I posted some solutions to a similar problem in this post.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17773212

I've used Multibit for 1 year, always had to sync/reset the wallet at least twice a day because funds went to pending everytime.

Today it just went to pending balance again so I just did the same (reset + waiting till it sync the wallet) but its been stopped in the process of syncing and won't continue.

I went to my other computer and tried the same and stopped the process too. Now I have my funds stuck in that client and I don't know what to do.

Things I've tried so far:

- Changing IP
- Changing computers
- Trying previous Multibit versions and restoring it
- Deleted the %appdata% multibit folder

Here is a picture when it just get stuck and wont restore the wallet
https://i.gyazo.com/1deb035da3beb20926f4c1389c4b995a.png

I need help to save my funds as there is around $4000 BTC worth.

Any helps or suggestions?