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Main => Technical Support => Topic started by: berol on May 21, 2017, 06:06:45 pm

Title: Access BTS with BTC private key?
Post by: berol on May 21, 2017, 06:06:45 pm

I'm sorry if the headline is bad (I read in one thread that we should be as precise as possible),  but I'm very unversed with BTS.

Basically I would need to know if it's possible to recover my bitshares if I have the private key of the bitcoin address I bought bitshares with? I read somewhere a while back that it is, but I'm not entirely sure if I remember it right and how it's done. I bought them sometimes in 2014 (I think) and never touched since. Everything else is gone, I just have 2 btc addresses and one of them is the one I bought with. I understand that having the private key of the btc proves the ownership and it might be possible to recover them?

After hours on the forum, reading, I couldn't find anything so if anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be amazing!

Title: Re: Access BTS with BTC private key?
Post by: blahblah7up on May 21, 2017, 06:52:37 pm

Hi berol,

Where did you buy them? Were you an AGS donor?

Title: Re: Access BTS with BTC private key?
Post by: xeroc on May 21, 2017, 08:01:17 pm

http://docs.bitshares.eu/bitshares/investor/claim.html

Title: Re: Access BTS with BTC private key?
Post by: berol on May 21, 2017, 10:39:07 pm

@blahblah7up: I believe so.
@xeroc: thank you lots! Will check if this works for me.

Title: Re: Access BTS with BTC private key?
Post by: td services on May 21, 2017, 11:51:53 pm

http://docs.bitshares.eu/bitshares/migration/howto-importing-wallet.html looks nothing like the wallet i'm using, Bitshares 2 v 170410.