Desktop Software Wallet

A 2025 recovery case involved a Bitcoin Core wallet.dat file from 2015. The holder had encrypted the wallet with a password they were confident they remembered,

A 2025 report by Cointelegraph on wallet password recovery in 2025 noted that recovery services were seeing a wave of new cases as Bitcoin's price exceeded $100

A 2025 recovery case documented by Dave Bitcoin's Wallet Recovery Services involved an Electrum wallet encrypted in 2017 with a password the holder could no lon

A 2025 recovery case involved an old Armory wallet from 2013 where the holder had set a passphrase they were certain they remembered but which consistently fail

Bitcoin's price exceeded $100,000 for the first time in December 2024, triggering a surge in recovery service enquiries from holders who had forgotten access cr

A November 2024 case involved a MultiBit Classic wallet file from 2014. MultiBit Classic had been discontinued in 2017 and its password derivation scheme was di

A 2024 recovery case described by Dave Bitcoin's Wallet Recovery Services involved a Bitcoin Core wallet.dat file that had been encrypted in 2016. The holder re

A long-dormant Bitcoin wallet from 2013, containing 2.3 BTC, was the subject of a recovery attempt in September 2024. The holder had used an Armory software wal

A 2024 guide published by KeychainX wallet recovery services updated practitioners on the landscape of forgotten wallet passwords. The guide noted that the most

A 2024 recovery case involved a Bitcoin Core wallet.dat file that had been encrypted in 2017 with a password the holder could no longer remember precisely. The

A user with a multi-coin Electrum wallet created in 2019 attempted to restore it in November 2023 after a SSD failure. The seed phrase was available and correct

A user who had moved Bitcoin to an Electrum wallet in 2018 using a custom seed extension attempted to restore the wallet in September 2023 after a hard drive fa

A long-term Bitcoin holder attempted to recover a Bitcoin Core wallet encrypted in 2017. The wallet.dat file had survived multiple computer migrations. The pass

A user contacted Wallet Recovery Services in early 2023 seeking help with an Electrum wallet encrypted in 2016. The wallet.dat file was intact. The user remembe

A software developer who had used a randomly generated 20-character password from RoboForm in 2016 to encrypt their Bitcoin Core wallet contacted recovery servi

A MultiBit wallet user from 2013 attempted to access their wallet in early 2023. MultiBit was officially discontinued in 2017 and is no longer supported. The wa

A Bitcoin Core wallet user who had encrypted their wallet in 2015 with a complex password attempted to access the funds in April 2023 as the market recovered. E

A Blockchain.com wallet user from the early v1 era contacted KeychainX in 2023 unable to recall the secondary wallet password set eight years prior. The v1 Bloc

A user who had purchased Bitcoin in 2017 and stored it in an Electrum wallet attempted to move funds to a hardware wallet in June 2022 following the Celsius col

A Bitcoin holder who had used Electrum with a custom seed extension (additional passphrase) in 2016 attempted to restore the wallet in October 2022 and discover

A user on a Bitcoin recovery forum reported in 2022 that they had recovered access to an old Bitcoin Core wallet after forgetting the password. The user had set

A BitcoinTalk forum user (thak777) posted in February 2022 that they had successfully recovered access to a 2013-era Bitcoin wallet using WalletRecoveryServices

A recurring case type documented by recovery services in 2022 involved users who had migrated from an older wallet—Multibit, Electrum, or Bitcoin Core—to a hard

A 2022 recovery case involved a Bitcoin Core wallet created in 2013 with an extremely short password. Although the password space was small, the wallet had been

ReWallet, a wallet recovery service, documented in 2022 that the most common cases they received involved forgotten Bitcoin Core wallet.dat passwords, often on