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Why nobody can «reset» your wallet
You write to wallet support, they reply that they can do nothing, and it sounds like a brush-off. It isn’t: it is literally true, and the reason is the same one that has stopped anyone else emptying your account all these years.
Why the button doesn’t exist
When a bank resets your password it can do so because the bank holds your money: it keeps the ledger, it decides who can move what, and it only needs to verify you are you. In a self-custody wallet nobody keeps that ledger. What decides who can move your money is only the key, and that key never left your device.
It isn’t that the company doesn’t want to help: it has nothing to help with. If it kept a copy of your key so it could reset you, anyone who attacked that company would take every customer’s money at once.
What companies can and cannot do
| Company | Can they give you access back? |
|---|---|
| Your hardware wallet’s manufacturer | No |
| Your wallet app’s developer | No |
| The coin’s network | No such entity exists |
| The exchange you bought on | Only your account with them, not your wallet |
| A recovery service | Doesn’t reset: rebuilds what you remember |
The last row matters, because it is exactly what I do and it shouldn’t be confused. I have no privileged access to anything, no back door, and I know nobody who has one. The only thing that can be done is rebuild the secret from what you remember and what you kept. If none of that survives, there is no case.
What you can do
Look for whatever survives: the paper phrase, the wallet file, the app on another device, an old copy. And gather what you remember, which is the raw material of any real recovery. Both routes are in I just lost access: the first steps.