Guys I need help. Let me preface this by saying I screwed up majorly with one of my masternodes. I am running on Ubuntu 16.04 and it was working fine but it completely crashed without a backup and lost everything. I have the CHC masternode address that contains the coin as well as the CHC masternode Private Key. Is there any way to get the coin back and if so, how do I do it? I will send anyone a nice tip if they can help me get this back up and running. I do not have a copy of wallet.dat. I hadn't backed it up like I should have when the installation was finished and 2 days later, FAILURE
Would really appreciate some assistance if at all possible Thanks!
You should always make backup before sending the funds. It is also better to do a controller wallet setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWfXdmb48c . Try looking in the backups folder on the VPS it may have created automatic backup. If not then your coins are lost it is not possible to access them with a public address. Masternode key only identifies your masternode on the network it does not have anything to do with the address.