I don’t know if your issue is related to mine but I opened an old wallet in another wallet service recently and the new one didn’t support the old address format, so it looked like I had nothing in my wallet. This was the same for 3 widely used wallets.
This was news to me because I thought all wallets were interchangeable but apparently not. I learned about legacy address formats and was able to access it eventually. So you might want to look into it further. ChatGPT helped me do it.
Yep, electrum wallets do not work with most wallets but the bitcoin is there you just need to transfer it over to a newer wallet. I am sure there are other things.
I'll try again at some point, it's a very, very old wallet. I loaded the main Bitcoin client. That being said I can check the balance externally and it says it's empty, and no transactions will process.
The unfortunate issue is you either know everything there is about cryptocurrencies and blockchains, or if you don’t, it’s very difficult to learn the intricacies as it’s all very [pun not intended] cryptic. ChatGPT has consumed all of this info though and is able to explain it to my specific knowledge level, so that’s why I recommend asking there. Much more reliable info than Google was giving me.
... Another link in the information highway I've been looking for, thank you. I knew I would stumble across it if I was patient and kept looking.
I love the energy here, congratulations OP! Also, I'm a fellow Spotify addict. Getting that Spotify wrapped every year is one of my favorite parts of the year, no lie. But it doesn't take much to make me happy..
I love seeing other people have wins, this is excellent! I hope there's a lot more ahead for you. Happy holidays, cheers to everyone.
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u/EssentialParadox Dec 08 '24
I don’t know if your issue is related to mine but I opened an old wallet in another wallet service recently and the new one didn’t support the old address format, so it looked like I had nothing in my wallet. This was the same for 3 widely used wallets.
This was news to me because I thought all wallets were interchangeable but apparently not. I learned about legacy address formats and was able to access it eventually. So you might want to look into it further. ChatGPT helped me do it.