Private key check on several currencies

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Quote from: Porfirii on January 03, 2025, 01:57:32 PM

Perhaps because you solved your question very fast, and because the users in this forum are top notch Wink

but it is always good to be cautious, just in case.

If I were OP then i'd be very cautious. I'd definitely import it in a trusted and legitimate wallet like electrum to see which crypto it is rather than using online service to know which cryptocurreny it is. Since OP already found that it is a bitcoin wallet and also possible in stellar so using online services won't one of the choice that OP will make. I have found some of my private keys and import it on a wallet like electrum even though it will take some time but it's safe rather than using online services. Let's just wait for OP to lock the thread and hope that OP won't disclose how much coins he has, his private key and not using services online.

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Quote from: EluguHcman on January 03, 2025, 01:11:29 AM

Also, if you have your private keys and you don't have the wallet address then the private keys remains useless so also when you have your wallet but looses your private keys.

The address is derived from the private key. So, the private key is all you need to have access to your coins
When you need to back up your wallet, you write down the wallet’s private keys (or seed in case of a HD wallet). You don’t need to write down the addresses as those can be derived from their respective PKs.
As you can see, OP has been able to recover his wallet and gain access to his coins (congratulations OP!) and all he had were the PKs.

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Quote from: ? on January 02, 2025, 10:57:54 PM

Hey gusys,
Thanks to all of you, as written before, the priv key was beloging to a Stellar wallet (I forgot to have a XLM wallet). he funds have been already moved to another wallet for safety reasons afer importing the private key on a oniine wallet.

I was pretty lucky trying with that specific wallet and to be able to recover my funds even without remembering at what coin my wallet was beloging!

Congratulations OP!!

For your own safety it is better if you don't disclose how many coins you recovered, but I hope that they are worth much money. Maybe sats would've been more profitable, but still! Unexpected money is always welcome

Quote from: ? on January 02, 2025, 10:57:54 PM

People out of here, stay away from any person asking to you your private keys, as the other said to me. Fortunely no one tried to contact me so far Cheesy

Perhaps because you solved your question very fast, and because the users in this forum are top notch Wink

but it is always good to be cautious, just in case.

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Quote from: ? on January 02, 2025, 10:57:54 PM

Hey gusys,
Thanks to all of you, as written before, the priv key was beloging to a Stellar wallet (I forgot to have a XLM wallet). he funds have been already moved to another wallet for safety reasons afer importing the private key on a oniine wallet.

I was pretty lucky trying with that specific wallet and to be able to recover my funds even without remembering at what coin my wallet was beloging!

Like you found your lost treasure but never make the same mistake again because you never know the luck will be in your side again. If you fund your wallet it's really necessary to make all the precautions like backing up the seeds and private keys on a secured location most importantly you need to know which coin you are holding.

Quote from: ? on January 02, 2025, 10:57:54 PM

People out of here, stay away from any person asking to you your private keys, as the other said to me. Fortunely no one tried to contact me so far Cheesy

Probably they were busy celebrating the New year, now you can lock this thread which you can do that by clicking the lock topic button that can be found on the lower left corner.

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Quote from: ? on January 01, 2025, 02:12:15 PM

Short story, I have this private key, but not sure at what crypto currency it belongs (surely not BTC/LTC) and I was wondering if there was a way to check if the private key belongs to a specific coin automatically without trying for each crypto (I saw that I can do it via GUARDA wallet, but it will take days). An additional point would be to get also the balance in it, if 0, makes no sense to proceed further.

Private keys are tied to particular wallet and not on particular cryptocurrencies!
Also, if you have your private keys and you don't have the wallet address then the private keys remains useless so also when you have your wallet but looses your private keys.

Meanwhile... You can actually track wallets historical transactions and also what cryptocurrency and account balance it holds but can not have private access to it.

So with the certain information provided, you would literally not be able to know what coin in the wallet and the value of the coin.

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Hey gusys,
Thanks to all of you, as written before, the priv key was beloging to a Stellar wallet (I forgot to have a XLM wallet). he funds have been already moved to another wallet for safety reasons afer importing the private key on a oniine wallet.

I was pretty lucky trying with that specific wallet and to be able to recover my funds even without remembering at what coin my wallet was beloging!

People out of here, stay away from any person asking to you your private keys, as the other said to me. Fortunely no one tried to contact me so far Cheesy

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Quote from: ? on January 01, 2025, 03:31:08 PM

Seems that the private key that I have, is a bitcoin one, but it also fits with the Stellar (and seems that are funds in it).
So, not sure if any distinct private key format would be the best choice to assign it to a specific crypto. From here my question if exist a way to do it automatically (generate the public key and search it in the explorer)

I don't think it's a good idea to keep importing it to different wallets in an online PC if you indeed found one like you said you found a balance on Stellar I suggest transfer this funds right away to a new wallet.
I guess you already found the right one. Stellar should be the coin you are looking for if you found funds on that wallet. If were you transfer it right away and beware of scammers.

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Quote from: ? on January 01, 2025, 03:31:08 PM

This is something that I would like to understand without importing the private key for each crypto/fork. The key is 64 carachters long.

With 64 characters it's more likely that your private key is for single coin only, probably Bitcoin, multicoin wallets would usually use seed words instead.
You can first try using Electrum wallet on clean device and importing private key to see what addresses have been used, and if there are any Bitcoin left.
Than you can use services like findmycoins.ninja and check used addresses to see if there are any forked coins leftovers.
I don't know any easy and safe way to check private key for all altcoins.

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Quote from: Aanuoluwatofunmi on January 02, 2025, 12:31:00 PM

Quote from: ? on January 01, 2025, 02:12:15 PM

Good afternoon guys,
I just registered because I was searching a way to check a private key that I found on one of my old pc at home.

Short story, I have this private key, but not sure at what crypto currency it belongs (surely not BTC/LTC) and I was wondering if there was a way to check if the private key belongs to a specific coin automatically without trying for each crypto (I saw that I can do it via GUARDA wallet, but it will take days). An additional point would be to get also the balance in it, if 0, makes no sense to proceed further.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards

Are you sure the wallet or coin you're trying to have access to belongs to you, i expect that you should know the number of wallet you make use of as well as the crypto coins you're holding, but you have no clue on all these and yet want to crack the coin a particular private key unlocks, maybe for security reasons you may have to check well on your archive if you once store them with description or not, also from the way you're sounding, this means its likely you have a particular private key for each of the coins you're holding and that may be getting more complicated for you handling them all.

It happens sometime that people lost info about their wallets of coins. During these years we have seen tons of experiments and many many coins-crypto-chains and so on...
I don't think this is the case. It can happens to save private keys without writing what was the coin .
But your comment it is something useful since there are many scas triggered with priv key. The worst was with TRX however this is not be the case due priv key format.

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Quote from: ? on January 01, 2025, 02:12:15 PM

Good afternoon guys,
I just registered because I was searching a way to check a private key that I found on one of my old pc at home.

Short story, I have this private key, but not sure at what crypto currency it belongs (surely not BTC/LTC) and I was wondering if there was a way to check if the private key belongs to a specific coin automatically without trying for each crypto (I saw that I can do it via GUARDA wallet, but it will take days). An additional point would be to get also the balance in it, if 0, makes no sense to proceed further.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards

Are you sure the wallet or coin you're trying to have access to belongs to you, i expect that you should know the number of wallet you make use of as well as the crypto coins you're holding, but you have no clue on all these and yet want to crack the coin a particular private key unlocks, maybe for security reasons you may have to check well on your archive if you once store them with description or not, also from the way you're sounding, this means its likely you have a particular private key for each of the coins you're holding and that may be getting more complicated for you handling them all.

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Quote from: un_rank on January 01, 2025, 03:29:58 PM

Some people may send you messages to help you out, DO NOT REVEAL the private key to anyone online or offline.

You can try searching online what blockchain represents the first letter of your keys. For example, if it is 5, K or L it may belong to Bitcoin, this can help narrow down the options. Do not reveal more than the first letter to search it up.

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For sure after some Scammers must have seen this post from OP, they would start flooding OP DM to request that they help him restore or recover his wallet by luring him to send them his private keys. I like the fact that OP came here in search of knowledge on what and how to go about his wallet recovery through his private keys.

I will also advise OP to not click on any links sent to him via dm instructing him to click on it and also should not accept any wallet recommend by anyone through DM here as that would put his assets in a big risk. OP should avoid DMS from unknown persons with respect to this matter he has raised and if there should be anything to be disclosed it should be made publicly on the thread so that everyone would see it for themselves and profer possible recommendations and solutions on the way forward for OP.

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Quote from: ? on January 01, 2025, 02:12:15 PM

Short story, I have this private key, but not sure at what crypto currency it belongs (surely not BTC/LTC) and I was wondering if there was a way to check if the private key belongs to a specific coin automatically without trying for each crypto

You can try with Pywallet or Findwallet, links are given in above topics.

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(I saw that I can do it via GUARDA wallet, but it will take days).

Guarda is a close source wallet, and it's not good to use.

Never reveal your private key.

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Quote from: bitbollo on January 01, 2025, 02:19:45 PM

in some case this can be understand basic on numbers of item on key and how it starts. Can you post these information?
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes
Here some details on how these can be different (in this case only with bitcoin).
Don't use online service of course on make any test with priv key....

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply.

Seems that the private key that I have, is a bitcoin one, but it also fits with the Stellar (and seems that are funds in it).
So, not sure if any distinct private key format would be the best choice to assign it to a specific crypto. From here my question if exist a way to do it automatically (generate the public key and search it in the explorer)

Quote from: dkbit98 on January 01, 2025, 03:22:40 PM

Quote from: ? on January 01, 2025, 02:12:15 PM

Short story, I have this private key, but not sure at what crypto currency it belongs (surely not BTC/LTC) and I was wondering if there was a way to check if the private key belongs to a specific coin automatically without trying for each crypto (I saw that I can do it via GUARDA wallet, but it will take days). An additional point would be to get also the balance in it, if 0, makes no sense to proceed further.

Can you tell us how many characters there are in this private key?
You should not enter this key anywhere online or reveal it here, but it would help if you could remember approximate year and wallets you used on your old computer.
Balance can be zero for Bitcoin, but maybe there is something left in forked coins, and altcoins if key was from multicoin wallet.

This is something that I would like to understand without importing the private key for each crypto/fork. The key is 64 carachters long.

Quote from: un_rank on January 01, 2025, 03:29:58 PM

Some people may send you messages to help you out, DO NOT REVEAL the private key to anyone online or offline.

You can try searching online what blockchain represents the first letter of your keys. For example, if it is 5, K or L it may belong to Bitcoin, this can help narrow down the options. Do not reveal more than the first letter to search it up.

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Thank you for the advice. I won't share it.

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- Jay -

Some people may send you messages to help you out, DO NOT REVEAL the private key to anyone online or offline.

You can try searching online what blockchain represents the first letter of your keys. For example, if it is 5, K or L it may belong to Bitcoin, this can help narrow down the options. Do not reveal more than the first letter to search it up.

- Jay -

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Quote from: ? on January 01, 2025, 02:12:15 PM

Short story, I have this private key, but not sure at what crypto currency it belongs (surely not BTC/LTC) and I was wondering if there was a way to check if the private key belongs to a specific coin automatically without trying for each crypto (I saw that I can do it via GUARDA wallet, but it will take days). An additional point would be to get also the balance in it, if 0, makes no sense to proceed further.

Can you tell us how many characters there are in this private key?
You should not enter this key anywhere online or reveal it here, but it would help if you could remember approximate year and wallets you used on your old computer.
Balance can be zero for Bitcoin, but maybe there is something left in forked coins, and altcoins if key was from multicoin wallet.

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in some case this can be understand basic on numbers of item on key and how it starts. Can you post these information?
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes
Here some details on how these can be different (in this case only with bitcoin).
Don't use online service of course on make any test with priv key....

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Good afternoon guys,
I just registered because I was searching a way to check a private key that I found on one of my old pc at home.

Short story, I have this private key, but not sure at what crypto currency it belongs (surely not BTC/LTC) and I was wondering if there was a way to check if the private key belongs to a specific coin automatically without trying for each crypto (I saw that I can do it via GUARDA wallet, but it will take days). An additional point would be to get also the balance in it, if 0, makes no sense to proceed further.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards

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