<p>Because it could be used by anyone with access to your device. You may as well have no passphrase and leave the wallet completely unprotected.</p>
<p>Businesses can offer a password reset for an account because they have details of their customers including ways to weakly check identity. Bitcoin core, by design, is not a business, has no lists of customers and no ways to verify their identity.</p>
<p>It is important that developers do not have any back door access to everyone else's money.</p>

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Thank you. It makes sense to me. Can't we have security questions at least ?
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You may be able to find a [password manager](https://www.google.com/search?q=password+manager) with the features you desire. A master password to retrieve your subsequently forgotten Bitcoin Core wallet-passphrase and some security questions to recover or reset a forgotten master password.
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RedGrittyBrick
<p>I would like to know why there is no feature to retrieve forgot password or reset with a new password ?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>

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Is it not possible to have password reset feature in Bitcoin Core Wallet?
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# Is it not possible to have password reset feature in Bitcoin Core Wallet?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-03-12)

I would like to know why there is no feature to retrieve forgot password or reset with a new password ?

Thanks

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, client, bitcoin-core-development, wallet-recovery, bitcoin-development


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-03-12. Score: 7

Because it could be used by anyone with access to your device. You may as well have no passphrase and leave the wallet completely unprotected.

Businesses can offer a password reset for an account because they have details of their customers including ways to weakly check identity. Bitcoin core, by design, is not a business, has no lists of customers and no ways to verify their identity.

It is important that developers do not have any back door access to everyone else's money.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thank you. It makes sense to me. Can't we have security questions at least ?  
> **username_1**: You may be able to find a [password manager](https://www.google.com/search?q=password+manager) with the features you desire. A master password to retrieve your subsequently forgotten Bitcoin Core wallet-passphrase and some security questions to recover or reset a forgotten master password.  

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