When using software in a way it was not intended to be used, and keeping track of your own money, it is important to understand exactly what you are doing, and how it all works beforehand. Otherwise you are likely to lose money.
Whenever you create a new transaction, that wallet creates a brand new address and private key to send the "change" to.
The wallet keeps track of the address and the private key in the wallet.dat file, but does not tell you about either.
If you then delete the wallet.dat file and don't have any backups anywhere, then the bitcoins become permanently lost.
Hopefully you will find a way to retrieve that wallet.dat file.
Topic: what to do ? 2.5 BTC lost forever? - page 2. (Read 2812 times)
I've made a transaction, send 1 BTC to adress shown in the screen shot.
I didn't made the second 2.5 transaction, where did my money go?
I have no private key to this second adress where all my spare btc had gone.
After transaction I've deleted wallet.dat becouse I was sure that all my btc are safe at the adress which they have been send to previously.
Does it mean that my btc are lost forever?
I've tried to recover the lost wallet.dat but any of the data recover software can not find it.
Does it mean that when I have cold paper wallet like I did, and want to spend only a bit of it I have to dump another private key after each transaction?
What the hell happened? Am I missing sth? I want my btc back so badly.
I didn't made the second 2.5 transaction, where did my money go?
I have no private key to this second adress where all my spare btc had gone.
After transaction I've deleted wallet.dat becouse I was sure that all my btc are safe at the adress which they have been send to previously.
Does it mean that my btc are lost forever?
I've tried to recover the lost wallet.dat but any of the data recover software can not find it.
Does it mean that when I have cold paper wallet like I did, and want to spend only a bit of it I have to dump another private key after each transaction?
What the hell happened? Am I missing sth? I want my btc back so badly.
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