hey, I moved some bitcoin to a custom cold wallet I set up and now I can't figure out how to get it back. Any advice? It's stored locally, so I don't wanna reveal too much for security reasons.
seriously, without more details, no one can help you. Just don't share your seed phrase or private keys, and your BTC will stay safe. But we need more info to figure out what happened.
Why not just tell us what wallet you're using? If it's Electrum, you’ll need the master public key to import it to an online device. Then you can make a transaction from there.
just to be clear, if you lose your private keys or seed phrase, your bitcoin is likely gone forever. If someone says they can recover lost coins, it's a scam. And saying you have a custom cold wallet isn’t enough info give us more.
alright, I’ll try to explain better. I don’t know much about programming, but I used this GitHub wallet thing and sent my transaction to localhost. I can’t read the data I have, but it’s there. Honestly, I don’t remember much from back then.
which one did you use exactly? CryptoBit or Bitkey? If you sent BTC through localhost, it might still be in that original wallet. Sounds like you're just experimenting, not actually using real bitcoin.
hey, can you drop the transaction ID? Normally, you send bitcoin to addresses, not IPs. Just to clarify, sending BTC to IPs hasn't been a thing since 2011.
do you remember anything from the CryptoBit screenshots? If not, you might’ve used a wallet included with BitKey OS. BitKey’s a Linux distro with various wallets.
yeah, I recognize those CryptoBit screenshots. My BTC is showing in my CryptoBit wallet, but it’s a six-transaction token. The balances on the addresses match what I have. I managed to recover some BTC from another wallet ages ago by manual signing, which was lucky.
you're making this way too complicated. It’s tough to help if you don’t explain better. Break it down into simpler steps. Screenshots or transaction IDs would help.
don’t take it the wrong way, but your English seems off. Maybe write in your language and translate it here? Also, give a step-by-step of what you did so we can actually help.
so we know you used CryptoBit and saved your file locally. I couldn’t find much documentation on it. Next steps are either read the source code or compile it and check if it has options to restore or load the backup. But I can’t do that myself.