<p>Bitpay/Copay use Hierarchical Deterministic wallets so you can find all the adresses that has been generated from your root private key (seed recovery phrase)</p>

<p>Here is a guide with more information: <a href="https://github.com/OmniLayer/omniwallet/wiki/Finding-and-Exporting-your-private-key-from-Bitpay-Copay" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/OmniLayer/omniwallet/wiki/Finding-and-Exporting-your-private-key-from-Bitpay-Copay</a></p>

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<p>So, I have a wallet - and the balance is incorrect.</p>

<p>I have looked into it a bunch and finally tracked down what I think is the issue.</p>

<p>If I view all of the addresses used in my wallet I see a list of Addresses with balance and unused addresses.</p>

<p>The problem is that one of the "unused addresses" actually has a balance.</p>

<p>The address is: 1HYMfJhgiprZ3n1oHKiSZ1n2e85Cyn7HAe</p>

<p>How can I make bitpay "use" this address again?  </p>

<p>I have tried the following:
  - Clear wallet cache 
  - Scan addresses for fund
  - Restoring wallet to another device</p>

<p>I thought I could try importing that address into electrum - but I cannot figure out how to get the private key for that address out of bitpay wallet.</p>

<p>Any advice?</p>

<address><lost-bitcoins><bitpay>
Bitpay unused address - has balance
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# Bitpay unused address - has balance

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-09-15)

So, I have a wallet - and the balance is incorrect.

I have looked into it a bunch and finally tracked down what I think is the issue.

If I view all of the addresses used in my wallet I see a list of Addresses with balance and unused addresses.

The problem is that one of the "unused addresses" actually has a balance.

The address is: 1HYMfJhgiprZ3n1oHKiSZ1n2e85Cyn7HAe

How can I make bitpay "use" this address again?

I have tried the following:
- Clear wallet cache
- Scan addresses for fund
- Restoring wallet to another device

I thought I could try importing that address into electrum - but I cannot figure out how to get the private key for that address out of bitpay wallet.

Any advice?

**Tags:** address, lost-bitcoins, bitpay


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-10-16. Score: 1

Bitpay/Copay use Hierarchical Deterministic wallets so you can find all the adresses that has been generated from your root private key (seed recovery phrase)

Here is a guide with more information: <https://github.com/OmniLayer/omniwallet/wiki/Finding-and-Exporting-your-private-key-from-Bitpay-Copay>


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