I set mine up years ago and mostly forgot about it. How do I send MaidSafe tokens to another address if I need to? It says I need a private key but I’m afraid to say I can’t find this private key. In my history it shows I moved tokens 6 years ago. If that was the case, it believe it was from a prior Omni wallet so apparently I used a private key then? I’m not sure. It designated those transactions as “simple send”. Would the private key be in an old BTC wallet of mine? I save all of them but how would I get the private key?
Unfortunately if you can’t find the private key you can’t move them. You’ll need to keep checking your records, as you would probably have stored the details when you created it, so it’s just a matter of finding them.
If it’s one of your old Bitcoin wallets, you should be able to export your private key corresponding to this address from other wallet software (e.g. Electrum), then enter it to Omniwallet to spend.
I’ve done some research and I think I’m 90% sure I sent my Maidsafe tokens to a Bitcoin wallet on an old hardware wallet I use to own. Since then I’ve imported the seed phrase from the old hw wallet to a new one and forgot about the MaidSafe tokens. As far as I can sell there’s no way to export the private key from a hardware wallet through Electrum or any software so I presume it would have to be derived from the seed phrase itself? If so, is there a way to do that? If there is, I would have to move all the funds off my Trezor to a different wallet first before I try.
EDIT: Is there any self-hosted alternative wallet to OmniWallet.org which I could connect to a Trezor and test if I can send my MaidSafe tokens? This would be ideal.
Assuming it’s not possible to sign an Omni transaction offline using the Trezor, I expect the only option you have is to use the seed phrase to get the private key.
I don’t know the best way to do it (I don’t have a Trezor), but I guess if you get the MAID on a unique address on the Trezor, you could then safely use your seed phrase on something like Electrum on an offline computer to extract the relevant private key, and then keep using your Trezor as usual (but not reusing the address the MAID is / was on).
@mav also had/has a web site where you can enter the seed phrase and see all the addresses and keys that it can generate for you. Load the website and go offline for security.
From there you locate your public address and can see the private key for it and load it into omniwallet
Thanks for the suggestions guys. So if I don’t misunderstand, the seed phrase generates multiple private keys? I presume these private keys are meant for different wallets or coins? If so, if I could use Electrum to extract the relevant private key for the address which received the MAID, then I think this would be an acceptable risk.
For a period of time until native token is introduced, the network token after Jan launch will be a ERC20 token using a ETH address.
The seed phase is for a HD. This means that BTC, and ETH addresses can be generated in a sequence. This means that if a wallet wants to give you multiple addresses then it just generates the next address(es) in the sequence. The sequence is deterministic based on the seed phrase.
BTC is generated from one sequence and ETH from another, and other coins/tokens from other sequences. This is why wallets can use the seed phrase and give you the same addresses.
It is expected that only one signature, with the private key, will be needed to perform the exchange from MaidSafecoin to the native ANT.
Therefore, if you don’t want to exchange your Maids for eMaid, you don’t need to use Omniwallet at any point. Use BIP39 - Mnemonic Code to view your public and private keys. Enter your public keys, one by one, into Omniexplorer until you locate where your Maids are, and once you know this, save your private key until it is needed.
Unfortunately, I’m not having much luck finding it. Is there anything else I should know to narrow down how I can find it? What type of address should I select?
In my password database, the OmniWallet entry is prefixed with “Electrum” and I still have the PC I used at the time I last sent MAID. I haven’t reformatted it or made any major changes on it since then. It pretty much only has Electrum wallets titled with KeepKey or Trezor and one has history of sending BTC to an exchange to buy MAID the same year I deposited the MAID on OmniWallet. I must have the private key somewhere.
