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Cricktor

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Correct. E.g. when you open a watch-only wallet with Electrum, you get a warning as follows:

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This wallet is watching-only. This means you will not be able to spend Bitcoins with it. Make sure you own the seed phrase or the private keys, before you request Bitcoins to be sent to this wallet.

Especially the second sentence is of importance. A watch-only wallet is nice for monitoring and has less risk in a potentially insecure environment. But you need to be sure that you still own the private keys which may reside in another wallet which is stored more securely. Otherwise you don't own aka have control over the coins in that watch-only wallet.

BTW, coins are always only "on the blockchain", wallets only store the private keys that enable you to "move coins on the blockchain".

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Quote from: eviuss on March 02, 2024, 08:08:45 PM

Thank you for your response, and how do I transfer them to another Wallet?
I have all the information regarding this transaction if necessary.

But every time I try to transfer them to another wallet, I can't sign it.

Just as @Cricktor had said, you actually transferred your coins to a watch only wallet. My question is that are you the owner of that wallet and are the keys in your possession, possibly stored them somewhere?
If not, then there's nothing you can do. You won't be able to transfer the funds out of the wallet as it's just a watch only address, which connects you to a wallet address, that isn't logged in on any device.
The least you can do, is to find the keys of that wallet and import them into a device then you will be able to access the funds and signed transactions like you had tried before. If not, then your funds are already lost and cannot be reversed

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Quote from: eviuss on March 02, 2024, 08:01:52 PM

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The forum has a "local" section below the homepage, here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php#5
Check if your local language is there, if it's listed, post a new topic in the right local language board so you can get more accurate support without needing a translator.

If posting here in the English section is necessary;
try to at least provide the information described in this pinned topic: Tech Support Help Request Format

Quote from: eviuss on March 02, 2024, 08:08:45 PM

I have all the information regarding this transaction if necessary.

That info can't do anything, it's an already public data that every node know.

Cricktor

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I assume you're speaking of a watch-only wallet which doesn't contain any private keys and therefore can't sign transactions.

How did you setup the watch-only wallet? Does the counterpart with private keys exist and is in your possession? Do you have the mnemonic recovery words for the wallet where you sent your coins?

eviuss

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Thank you for your response, and how do I transfer them to another Wallet?
I have all the information regarding this transaction if necessary.

But every time I try to transfer them to another wallet, I can't sign it.

Findingnemo

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Bitcoin transactions are irreversible, once the transaction is confirmed.

eviuss

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Good morning,
I made a transfer by mistake to a spectator wallet and I cannot send the funds back to my initial Wallet from NiceHash.

Can you help me please ?
THANKS

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