<p>Discovering which wallet this was generated from may be important. Over the years different words and derived paths have been used by different software.</p>
<p>A good place to start is to look through <a href="https://walletsrecovery.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://walletsrecovery.org/</a> which may help jog your memory and a start on the recovery process.</p>

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2020-06-19T00:18:30.150Z
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MaxSan
<p>In January 2016 I bought a bitcoin but I don't remember what program I used. I used the seed code and now I entered a wallet. However, it is empty. And it also says there haven't been any transactions ever. Did I enter a wrong seed or someone else's seed? Or can the history be removed? Or does it matter in which program I use the seed? Or does it have to do with the halving? Please help me to recover my BTC.</p>

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2020-06-18T20:13:02.820Z
so this question is not suitable for this forum because it requires back and forth diagnoses. i suggest you create a thread on bitcointalk.org forum or the bitcoin beginners subreddit. be sure to mention what software you've tried restoring from seed in.
Abdussamad
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2020-06-18T22:24:27.977Z
Does this answer your question? [Is a 'seed phrase' independent of the type of wallet?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/96437/is-a-seed-phrase-independent-of-the-type-of-wallet)
Tony Sanak
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2020-06-22T09:08:45.637Z
If that was a BIP39 mnemonic phrase, the upcoming new version of Electrum will provide a scanning/probing feature for wallet recovery purposes: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/6155
Chris Chen
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Retrieving bitcoin from old seed
Erik Görtjes
# Retrieving bitcoin from old seed

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-06-18)

In January 2016 I bought a bitcoin but I don't remember what program I used. I used the seed code and now I entered a wallet. However, it is empty. And it also says there haven't been any transactions ever. Did I enter a wrong seed or someone else's seed? Or can the history be removed? Or does it matter in which program I use the seed? Or does it have to do with the halving? Please help me to recover my BTC.

**Tags:** wallet-recovery

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: so this question is not suitable for this forum because it requires back and forth diagnoses. i suggest you create a thread on bitcointalk.org forum or the bitcoin beginners subreddit. be sure to mention what software you've tried restoring from seed in.  
> **username_2**: Does this answer your question? [Is a 'seed phrase' independent of the type of wallet?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/96437/is-a-seed-phrase-independent-of-the-type-of-wallet)  
> **username_3**: If that was a BIP39 mnemonic phrase, the upcoming new version of Electrum will provide a scanning/probing feature for wallet recovery purposes: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/6155  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_4 on 2020-06-19. Score: 0

Discovering which wallet this was generated from may be important. Over the years different words and derived paths have been used by different software.

A good place to start is to look through <https://walletsrecovery.org/> which may help jog your memory and a start on the recovery process.


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