Occasionally, people lose crypto due to catastrophic blockchain failures or multi-layer attacks from sophisticated hackers — but preventable user error is far, far more common. For various reasons, people fail to treat crypto like real currency, and given the high...

Losing access to your cryptocurrency wallet is distressing, but when disaster strikes, it’s important to watch out for crypto recovery scams. Bad actors prey on the desperation of users by offering false hope — and while cryptocurrency recovery is often...

If you pass away unexpectedly, your cryptocurrency could be lost forever. By design, there’s no central authority to help your family recover your assets — that’s the point of cryptocurrency, but it can also be a drawback. A crypto inheritance...

If your hardware crypto wallet is lost or stolen, your cryptocurrency is safe as long as you have your recovery seed phrase and the thief does not have your PIN (provided that you’re using a hardware wallet that utilizes a...

Your seed phrase is the master backup that restores your entire cryptocurrency wallet, while a private key is a single password that grants access to the funds at a specific crypto address.In short: The seed phrase is used to...

Yes, a cryptocurrency wallet password can be recovered using a brute-force attack in theory, but the success of this method depends entirely on the password’s length and complexity.  While the best way to regain access to a wallet is always...

The fastest way to find a lost wallet.dat file is to look in the default data directory used by Bitcoin wallet software. You can also search your storage for the file; we’ve outlined how to do that easily below. The...

Yes, data recovery for deleted crypto wallet files is often possible. Success hinges on the type of storage drive you have and the actions you take immediately after deletion.  On a traditional hard disk drive (HDD), deleted data is highly...