Hi All,
At initial installation I missed the step where I needed to secure my seedwords. I don’t know when and where the seed was shown.
Anyway, is there a way to let the system show them, or are they lost forever.
If they are lost, what is a wise thing to do? Start all over or can I do a system rebuild or something like that to initiate a new seed.
Thanks!
Seed words for what? StartOS is an operating system for servers and doesn’t have seed words. Are you talking about a particular service you have installed, or are you talking about the unique .local server URL that is generated when you set up StartOS?
For my Bitcoin node/wallet
Neither Bitcoin Core not Bitcoin Knots run (by default at least) any usable hot wallets and have no seed phrases. You’d connect to Bitcoin on your server from external software or hardware wallets and those would have private keys and seed phrases.
Yeah well, I installed Alby Hub, but also there is no seedphrase presented to me or whatever. What external sofware or hardware wallets do you rever to and how do i make that connection?
Alby Hub is Alby Hub. Bitcoin is Bitcoin. This is much the same as a Carrot is a Carrot and an Apple is an Apple.
Unlike Bitcoin on StartOS, Alby Hub on StartOS may well have funds in it. It depends what you did to set it up. There are two ways to do this. The first is installing LND (yet another completely separate service on StartOS) and connecting to that. The second is with LDK, which is a node entirely within the Ably Hub service.
Whether LDK or LND, were dealing with the lightning network here, where for the most part having just your private key is completely pointless and DOES NOT BACK UP YOUR FUNDS since you’re funds are in separate multi-sig wallets between you and your peers. These private keys are not generated by the standard seed phrases you are familiar with. Not only is having the private key not a means of protecting yourself from anything much, having any type of seed phrase would not be of much use at all even for access to any residual onchain funds.
The correct method of backing up your lightning channels is not with seed phrases, but with backups of the static channel states, the SCB, which can be done easily through the StartOS backup process. You’d follow this guide here: Start9 | Backups
…and in a disaster you’d restore either LND or Alby Hub depending on how you set up Alby Hub. (More here: Start9 | Alby Hub)
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