Be sure to delete the keystore file and private key from your computer. As you can see, you also have the option to print a paper wallet. A paper wallet is a piece of paper that contains your private key and public address, as well as their respective QR codes. Paper wallets are meant as a method of cold storage, or in other words, a way of storing cryptocurrency securely for a very long time without the need to access the funds for a very long time.
If you wish to print a paper wallet, proceed to click the Print Paper Wallet button. You should see a new browser tab open, containing an image similar to the following:. Use your built-in browser options to print the entire page, and then proceed to cut out your paper wallet.
Attempting to right-click the image to save it and then printing said image will result in the specific part such as one of the QR codes you right-clicked to be saved instead of the entire paper wallet image. The first way to access your newly created wallet is to select the Private Key option. Information regarding your wallet should now have appeared beneath the How would you like to access your wallet?
You will have to provide your private key once more. At this point, it is important to note that you are not limited to using the private key you received from creating a wallet through MyEtherWallet.
If you have used other Ethereum wallets that provide a private key, you can input said private key in MyEtherWallet to access the wallet. As mentioned above, you cannot change your password without generating a completely new JSON file. Step 1. Step 4. Step 6. I am using this, but it feels like magic, would be great to read up on the details but I don't even know how to google for it.
This doesn't work in IE though when you have to download a big file with more than characters. This will not work without limits, though. You can only download about 1MB of data. Show 10 more comments.
Found an answer. Cybear can you explain the third line to me? You will want to prepend data: to your url, otherwise the user is likely to hit a character limit in many browsers. Hey , I know it is an old answer but, know this solution doesn't work on IE all of them IE does not familiar with download attribute reference - link — Ayalon Grinfeld. Gautham Gautham 7 7 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. I meant to say, no need to deal with the HTML elements directly.
This is the best answer since it does not have a 1MB size limit and uses a library instead of custom hacks — oseiskar.
Thanks for the response even after it's been 2yrs since I asked this question! I prefer pure JS over jQuery syntax. Today's test in Edge: data.
While this is a great answer, initMouseEvent is a deprecated Web Standard and should not be used anymore. Instead, use the new MouseEvent interface. It's just a minor refactor though. Thanks, only one that didn't give me size issues — Roelant. Hope this helps someone. Fabian von Ellerts 3, 31 31 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges.
If you saved your 12 word mnemonic phrase when you created your MEW wallet, you can recover the wallet at any point by using that phrase. However, if you have gone through the trouble of finding this article it is unlikely that you have your 12 word recovery phrase available. The first step in recovering access to your wallet is to locate your Keystore file. The Keystore file is essentially a copy of your Ethereum private key that has been encrypted with the password that you chose when you created a new wallet using MEW.
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