Topic: Recover wallet from 2013 (Read 202 times)

Ok, 3 years later I have an update... never give up guys 

first of all, I was able to recover 0.01 BTC from the pool website, which incredibly still exists. This is the bit of good news.

Now, for the 0.1 BTC wallet, I just found it in dgex.com, a site that shut down in 2015. You can see it in the wayback machine of archive.org, but all the functionality is gone.

I don't remember getting any warning about the site going down, but, whatever...

Now I wonder if anyone remembers the backup mechanism of dgex.com. Was it a seed you had to write, or a pdf, or what?

My hunch is that the seed I have is not from 2013 but later on. On electrum no address is showing any funds, even if I set the gap to 200.

Any veteran of dgex.com ?

This is the info I see from http://dgex.com/wallet/ from archive.org

Trustless DGEX Coin Wallet [beta]
Trustless DGEX Bitcoin Wallet [beta]

Developer: HumanFractal


Current Features:
Lightweight BTC Client, no blockchain download
Local in-browser BTC transaction signing - your Private Keys never leave your machine
A one-time Master Backup ensures that you never lose your coins
Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets (HD Wallets)
Your wallet keys are all derived from a single master key which produces a 'Tree' of keys, instead of a 'Chain' like Armory or Electrum.
Receiving Addresses are used as public addresses, and all change from transactions you send out is sent to Spending Addresses.
Based on BIP32 HD Wallets
Encrypted and kept in Local Storage, Private Keys never leave your local machine
Use Google or Yubikey Authenticator to add a second level of encryption to your keys
For more information about Local 2FA. Full specifications will be available shortly

So, you have a watch-only wallet including an address with balance. But when you use your seed phrase, you don't see the balance?
If so, you are importing a wrong seed phrase or the address you are looking for is beyond the gap limit.

Go to "Addresses" tab and check whether you see the address in question or not.
If you don't see the address and you are sure that you have imported a correct seed phrase, you can try generating more addresses using the command below in "console" tab.

This command will generate 50 addresses.

Note: If you don't see any of "Addresses" or "Console" tabs, you can make them available by clicking on "View" button at top of the window.  

I'm not sure but maybe you want to use the Sweep feature and not just open that wallet?

1. yes, network is green. I can retrieve the funds of my 2013 address (1G*) in watch-only mode
2. when I try to restore, I don't get the option to recover legacy or any other type of wallet

I do:

File > New/Restore > Standard Wallet > I already have a seed > paste my seed and next

Version of Electrum is 4.0.9

Is electrum connected to the network (green circle in the bottom right) ?

A wrong derivation path might be the issue.
Can you confirm that you have recovered a legacy wallet (addresses starting with 1..) and not nested or native segwit (address starting with 3.. or bc1..) ?

I found the dictionary: it is an Electrum 'old style'

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/1.9.8/lib/mnemonic.py

ALL my 12 words are there.

I followed the recovery process in Electrum, but my wallet has no funds. Any idea why?

The 12 words you are referring to seems to be a BIP39 seed phrase and as explained by LeGaulois, you can import them into electrum.

But I'm pretty sure the seed phrase you have isn't for the blockchain wallet you had in 2013.
In 2013, there was no BIP39 seed phrase in blockchain wallet.

Both words exist in BIP39 words list.

Word number 166: believe
Word number 1476: reveal

You can use Electrum to recover your wallet. https://electrum.org/#home
It's a Bitcoin wallet

You basically need to create a new wallet and write the seed you have from blockchain.info

- click File > New/Restore, enter a name and click next
- select "Standard Wallet" and click next
- select "I already have a seed" and click next
- enter the 12 words seed
- click the "Options" button and enable BIP39
- check the "BIP39 seed" box

If you're asked the type of addresses you want, chose legacy (p2pkh) or p2psh-segwit (p2wpkh-p2sh) depending on what you were using on blockchain.info. Otherwise, you won't see your bitcoins in your wallet

(Adress starting with 1 is a legacy address, with 3 a p2psh-segwit)

I've got around 4.5K USD stored in an old wallet. Last transaction dates back to 2013.

I don't remember where I created that wallet, but I think it was in blockchain.info.

I still keep the 12 word seed, but I tried to recover it in blockchain.com an it didn't work. I am sure the seed is ok as I copy-pasted the entire thing, including the address.

The seed contains words like 'reveal' and 'believe' which I haven't found in any "modern" dictionary.

Any idea where I could recover a seed from 2013?

TIA

-JJ