Yeah I have accepted the fact that the wallet file has been tampered, and understand that there is close to zero chance for it to be recovered, just not sure how that happened.
When I am creating wallet, I am very careful with the process, and that wallet is not my first time so I am fully aware of the process. So it's either my computer has been compromised or simply human error.
Before showing the white flag, can you tell us some (
non-sensitive) information regarding the wallet,
For more efficient deductions:
- Where did you downloaded that portable Electrum?
- Do the original wallet's bitcoin addresses starts with "3", "1" or "bc1"?
- Do the newly restored wallet's addresses start with the same character?
Also, double check on any blockexplorer if the addresses with balance reflect the same transactions as your "
inbound" transactions.
I'm currently downloading Electrum Portable v3.1.3 to try to reproduce this.
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edit-
Works just fine, definitely
not a bug of Electrum Version 3.1.3 Portable.