Restore a wallet

There are two ways to get a wallet back: with your words, or with the help of the people in your Consensus Backup.

From your words

You need the words and the password the wallet had when it was created.

1. On the wallets page click Restore Wallet.

   

2. Type a name for the wallet, choose the network, and choose the wallet type. A wallet created with this application is BIP86 (Taproot P2TR).

   

3. Leave the restore method on From Mnemonic and type your words, in order, separated by spaces.

4. In Original password you’ve used when created the wallet, type the password the wallet had when it was created.

   

5. Type the new password for this wallet, twice. It can be the same as before or a new one. Then click Restore Wallet.

   

The restored wallet appears in the list. Open it and click Update Balance.

Two passwords, two different jobs

• The original password belongs to the words. It must be exactly the password you used when you created the wallet. With another one you get a valid wallet, but a different and empty one.
• The new password only protects the wallet on this computer.

Your backup is still “the words + the original password”, even if you chose a new password here.

After restoring

• Your bitcoin is back as soon as the balance is updated.
• Log in: you are the same user as before. Then use Recover contacts from server (in Contacts) and Recover groups from server (in Smart Groups).
• Your encrypted notes, files and passwords were stored in the wallet folder of the old computer. They come back only if you kept a copy of that folder.

From a Consensus Backup

If you created a Consensus Backup, the members of the group can restore your wallet without your words. The minimum number of members you chose has to take part.

Wallets made with other software

Restore Wallet also imports other kinds of wallet. Choose the type that matches the wallet you have:

Type	What it is
BIP86	Taproot wallets (addresses that start with bc1p). Our default.
BIP84	Native SegWit wallets (addresses that start with bc1q)
BIP49	SegWit wallets with addresses that start with 3
BIP44	Legacy wallets (addresses that start with 1)
Imported WIF	One single private key in WIF format
Brain wallet	A classic brain wallet made with other software: one key made from a phrase. Not recommended. It is not the Advance Brain Wallet

For the BIP types you can restore from the words or from a COLDCARD backup file. If the wallet had no passphrase, leave the original password empty.