The Seeds may have been compromised. How do I create a whole new Wallet with Bisq?

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Hi,

I think the seeds may have been compromised. Fortunately, there are no bitcoins or altcoins stored there at the moment. However, I no longer want to use this private key. How do I generate a whole new wallet with new seeds and delete the current one?

Thanks!

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You can just delete the data directory then which will make Bisq act all brand new.
You can find it here depending on your OS:
Mac OSX: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Bisq

  • Linux: /home/username/.local/share/Bisq
  • Windows 7,8,10: C:\Documents and Settings\username\AppData\Roaming\Bisq
  • Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Bisq
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I am doing the same thing as Gilson was. So, I took your advice and placed the directory in the trash. I did the same thing with the backup. Nothing seems to have changed within the app, though, and I think that the wallet address remains the same. Am I missing something? Do I need to restart the app for the changes to take place? Also, will the app create a new directory now that the old one is deleted? Thank you for the info that you’ve already given.

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if there was nothing on value in your previous data directory (so no backup was needed, otherwise deleting it altogether has not been a good idea) the procedure is:

  • stop bisq
  • delete or rename data directory
  • restart bisq

application would start with default light theme (white background), without password, and connect to network provided nodes; also checking the seed you will see it’s different from the previous one

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Thank you. Everything is straightened out.

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