Hey everyone,
Yesterday I tried to get 200EUR in BTC sent to my Samourai Wallet. I clicked on the receive option and shared the address where the funds were supposed to go, but they just never showed up in my wallet.
When I open my Samourai Wallet, I see a transaction for 5EUR that I received last, but after a minute, my available balance drops to 0.0000000. It’s weird since I had the 5EUR before the 200EUR transaction was supposed to come in.
I did some digging online and found out that Samourai Wallet’s website is down due to issues with the authorities.
So far, I've attempted to restore my wallet using 12-word passphrases from other wallets like Coinimi, Exodus, and Sparrow, but it hasn't worked at all. Every time, the transactions for both the 5EUR and 200EUR don’t appear, and the balance remains at 0.000000 across all wallets I've tried.
Is there anyone who can help me get my money back?
Best,
hexakill
Even though the fees have come down considerably when compared to last week, it could be the case that the transaction simply hasn't been confirmed yet. Do you have the transaction ID?
With Samourai Wallet you had full control of your funds since you held the seed words, which makes the recent events immune to you in that sense. Now if the transaction still hasn't confirmed it doesn't matter in which wallet you try to recover access to your funds simply because it just didn't confirmed (yet I suppose).
I advise you to follow the steps outlined in this thread[2] in order to successfully have access to your funds, namely:
Pay attention to the last bit where they reference that you have to try this import process for each script type (Legacy, Segwit and Wrapped Segwit).
[1]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5494114
I think the mistake most you did was that Samourai will first ask you to input your passphrase but most of you do not know what passphrase is. After the passphrase, you will set the wallet pin or password. After the wallet creation, you will be able to click at the menu/image at the top left corner where you will see 'settings' -> 'wallet' and click on it to see your seed phrase and other necessary information.
I wanted to bypass the passphrase but I was unable to and you can see what it displayed at the bottom of that image. You must use passphrase unless you want to recover a wallet that does not support passphrase which you did not generate its seed phrase on Samourai.
Which means you need a passphrase for the wallet and not just BIP39 seed phrase. Did you use the passphrase?
If you did not include the passphrase, it will generate different keys and addresses for you.
Hello @RickDeckard
the Transaction was confirmed in less than 5 minutes.
here is the TID and BTC Address:
Sorry buy i don't have X account and cannot get the steps to follow for migrating to Sparrow.
Can you post it here all the steps i need?
Kind Regards.
haxakill
As far as I remember you have to restore a Samourai wallet with the 12 mnemonic recovery words and the mnemonic passphrase. Samourai wallet seems to use the otherwise optional additional mnemonic passphrase (the 13th word or rather passphrase) as something required.
If you leave out this mnemonic passphrase you don't get your wallet. The smallest error in the mnemonic passphrase gives you another usually empty wallet.
To restore your wallet properly in another software you need your 12 mnemonic recovery words, the mnemonic passphrase and the derivation paths used by Samourai:
Deposit: m/44'|49'|84'|47'/0'/0' (depending on address type: (44') legacy, (49') wrapped Segwit, (84') native Segwit)
Bad Bank: m/84'/0'/2147483644'
Pre Mix: m/84'/0'/2147483645'
Post Mix: m/84'/0'/2147483646'
Ricochet: m/44'|49'|84'/0'/2147483647'
Maybe interesting: https://samourai.kayako.com/article/12-forgotten-passphrase
Dear @Charles-Tim
you had right, now i recovered with my Passphrase and both Transactions are there
Thank you for lighting my mind up
Kind Regards.
hexakill
Did you successfully recover your wallet?
If it succeeds better move your BTC to a new wallet like Electrum because the Samourai wallet has been seized by the government it is not a good wallet anymore.
In case you still haven't recovered your wallet yet the link provided by Cricktor should be the right way to recover your wallet with the right derivation path.
Or optional if you know the exact BTC address of your current wallet then extracting the private key from your backup seed phrase with the correct passphrase can be the best option.
There is a tool called Mmemonic code converter tool that you can use to extract private keys from your Samourai seed and passphrase you can follow the procedure from this link below.
- https://github.com/Samourai-Wallet/samourai-wallet-android/blob/develop/Guides/Restore%20%26%20Recovery.md#reveal-all-individual-private-keys-in-the-wallet
And take note run it on the offline device for safety purposes and import it to Electrum and don't forget to move all funds right away to a new wallet(Electrum as sample)
I think he forgot to use passphrase while trying to recover the wallet before. And I also think he has been able to recover the wallet with the right seed phrase and the passphrase.
I think the 'not' was a typo for 'now'.
Anyone that has the seed phrase and the passphrase will find the recovery easy on wallets that support BIP39 seed phrase and passphrase.
Only open source wallets are recommended.
Yes i did recovered my Wallet, with the right BIP39 seed phrase and passphrase.
Thank you all for replying
I will do transfer all my BTC to a new Wallet.
Kind Regards.
hexakill
please help, how do I restore my funds from the samarui wallter on the phone? I have all 12 word and pharsekey and it shows 0 on my funds. I have no idea what to do
I don't understand how I find which private address is my BTC.
I tried 49 49 84 , 1 or 3 index using the calculator but I tried 100 private keys to exodus and it doesn't see any funds
This is correct, you need your mnemonic recovery words and the wallet password as additional mnemonic passphrase.
See some details here: https://docs.samourai.io/wallet/restore-recovery#restore-samourai-paper-backup
What's wrong with your keyboard? At least you could try harder to get your words in a readable manner.
Which details do you have to restore your wallet? Of course, I don't ask for your specific recovery words. You should just tell what you have, like "I have the 12 recovery words and I know my Samourai wallet password".
Try to make it easier to understand you, the more likely it is, you get the help you need. Nobody can read your mind, so spend some time to think about it what details are needed to provide you with good help.
If you're not good with English, there are quite good translation tools for free.
You dont need to import the keys to individual addresses. As long as you have the 12 words and passphrase you will be able to restore all of your addresses and private keys.