Re: I'VE LOST MY WALLET
Originally posted by on 14/12/2025, 13:29:56 UTC
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It's not my intention to rub salt into open wounds, but seriously, why don't you have backups on other storage media of important and valuable files? I don't get it why some people don't have backups.
Modern Bitcoin Core wallets are usually of the HD type. You only need one working backup to recover your whole wallet by resyncing an old restored backup.
Descriptor (Core) wallets can be backed up with wallet file backups OR also by backing up all descriptors. The latter is a manual process which requires a safe, secure and best offline environment. It's not recommended for noobs as you need to know what you're doing and steps aren't quite straightforward in my opinion.
A Bitcoin Core wallet on a single computer without external redundant backups is a single point of failure. No backups? No recovery if something bad happens to that single computer or you foolishly delete your valuable files yourself.
Is it wise to gamble with such a loss risk? I don't think so and you shouldn't, too.
Based on the little details that OP provided, I'd say, chances are very slim to recover your wallet, if at all.
Data on harddrives is more likely to be recoverable, but the more you use the harddrive the worse your chances become. Data on SSDs is often less likely to be recoverable and highly dependent on how the SSD device handles data in storage blocks that have been marked as deleted by TRIM commands the OS commonly sends to the SSD to facilitate proper wear leveling and garbage collection.
Self-encrypting storage devices are another big obstacle for data recovery. A wipe/erase command simply discards the current encryption/decryption key of the storage device which renders the whole data on the device into unrecoverable data garbage.
Modern Bitcoin Core wallets are usually of the HD type. You only need one working backup to recover your whole wallet by resyncing an old restored backup.
Descriptor (Core) wallets can be backed up with wallet file backups OR also by backing up all descriptors. The latter is a manual process which requires a safe, secure and best offline environment. It's not recommended for noobs as you need to know what you're doing and steps aren't quite straightforward in my opinion.
A Bitcoin Core wallet on a single computer without external redundant backups is a single point of failure. No backups? No recovery if something bad happens to that single computer or you foolishly delete your valuable files yourself.
Is it wise to gamble with such a loss risk? I don't think so and you shouldn't, too.
Based on the little details that OP provided, I'd say, chances are very slim to recover your wallet, if at all.
Data on harddrives is more likely to be recoverable, but the more you use the harddrive the worse your chances become. Data on SSDs is often less likely to be recoverable and highly dependent on how the SSD device handles data in storage blocks that have been marked as deleted by TRIM commands the OS commonly sends to the SSD to facilitate proper wear leveling and garbage collection.
Self-encrypting storage devices are another big obstacle for data recovery. A wipe/erase command simply discards the current encryption/decryption key of the storage device which renders the whole data on the device into unrecoverable data garbage.
Original archived Re: I'VE LOST MY WALLET
Scraped on 14/12/2025, 13:29:56 UTC
It's not my intention to rub salt into open wounds, but seriously, why don't you have backups on other storage media of important and valuable files? I don't get it why some people don't have backups.
Modern Bitcoin Core wallets are usually of the HD type. You only need one working backup to recover your whole wallet by resyncing an old restored backup.
Descriptor (Core) wallets can be backed up with wallet file backups OR also by backing up all descriptors. The latter is a manual process which requires a safe, secure and best offline environment. It's not recommended for noobs as you need to know what you're doing and steps aren't quite straightforward in my opinion.
A Bitcoin Core wallet on a single computer without external redundant backups is a single point of failure. No backups? No recovery if something bad happens to that single computer or you foolishly delete your valuable files yourself.
Is it wise to gamble with such a loss risk? I don't think so and you shouldn't, too.
Based on the little details that OP provided, I'd say, chances are very slim to recover your wallet.
Data on harddrives is more likely to be recoverable, but the more you use the harddrive the worse your chances become. Data on SSDs is often less likely to be recoverable and highly dependent on how the SSD device handles data in storage blocks that have been marked as deleted by TRIM commands the OS commonly sends to the SSD to facilitate proper wear leveling and garbage collection.
Self-encrypting storage devices are another big obstacle for data recovery. A wipe/erase command simply discards the current encryption/decryption key of the storage device which renders the whole data on the device into unrecoverable data garbage.
Modern Bitcoin Core wallets are usually of the HD type. You only need one working backup to recover your whole wallet by resyncing an old restored backup.
Descriptor (Core) wallets can be backed up with wallet file backups OR also by backing up all descriptors. The latter is a manual process which requires a safe, secure and best offline environment. It's not recommended for noobs as you need to know what you're doing and steps aren't quite straightforward in my opinion.
A Bitcoin Core wallet on a single computer without external redundant backups is a single point of failure. No backups? No recovery if something bad happens to that single computer or you foolishly delete your valuable files yourself.
Is it wise to gamble with such a loss risk? I don't think so and you shouldn't, too.
Based on the little details that OP provided, I'd say, chances are very slim to recover your wallet.
Data on harddrives is more likely to be recoverable, but the more you use the harddrive the worse your chances become. Data on SSDs is often less likely to be recoverable and highly dependent on how the SSD device handles data in storage blocks that have been marked as deleted by TRIM commands the OS commonly sends to the SSD to facilitate proper wear leveling and garbage collection.
Self-encrypting storage devices are another big obstacle for data recovery. A wipe/erase command simply discards the current encryption/decryption key of the storage device which renders the whole data on the device into unrecoverable data garbage.