I am really hoping someone can help me.
Last year I decided to start buying some bitcoin. I chose the electrum platform after researching and hearing of its ease of use given I am not overly technical. I created a standard default wallet on electrum but dont recall being presented with any phrase or password at the time of creation. I bought a small amount of bitcoin from Bittylicious to test that the wallet was working. Once confirmed, given the risk to security, I decided to follow the advice of a web article and create a watch wallet. I did so using the master public key from my default wallet. The watch wallet was created instantly after inputting the master public key, again I dont recall any passwords or phrases being presented to me
Over the last year I have been adding bitcoin to my watch wallet using the receive address form my watch wallet. I started to become concerned when the transactions being shown in my watch wallet werent appearing in my default account. Upon further reading online I am now hearing I need to present seed phrases to access and spend my bitcoin in my watch wallet.
I dont recall ever seeing any phrases in either the setup of either the default or watch wallet and don't know what this is. Can someone help me understand what options I have. I am really worried I may never be able to access my bitcoin again and have lost a years worth of saving
Please help! Thanks in advance
Kind regards,
Matt