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So my xmas present from myself was: loosing access to a Exodus wallet that had a decent amount of BTC in it
I did a “fresh start” on my laptop with windows defender. So some apps needed to be downloaded again (you guess it, Exodus was one of em) when I downloaded the app again I had to restore my wallet. I entered what I thought was my 12 words recovery phrase. Then boom wrong phrase. Started to slightly stress about it. Looking through some other stuff stored somewhere else and found a couple of 12 words recovery phrase that was Identified for completely different wallet . Entered both of those and it said recovery successful but balance was still at 0. I entered both phrase and they both said successful recovery.
Now at this point I have accepted the fact that my BTC are lost forever but I am very confused on why 2 completely different 12 words recovery phrase would both tell me “recovery successful” and then nothing shows up.
Im taking a break from trying to find a solution coz im going crazy. Im thinking restoring my computer to an earlier date could work but I have never set it prior to that event so I am not to hopeful about the outcome.
So to any newbie out there. I thought I had it all figured out but I have been proven otherwise yesterday. Make sure you have everything clearly marked/identified on paper and quadruple check it before doing anything else. For some reason I kept those out of cold storage and that decision came back to hunt me (thank god I didn’t lose everything)
Merry Christmas
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