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Title: how i find from my bitcoin address the bip32 root key?
Post by: sanric22000 on November 03, 2018, 10:10:51 AM
i heard about this site https://iancoleman.io/bip39/  and i dont know how is procedure to find the bip32 root key,thanks!!!!!!


Title: Re: how i find from my bitcoin address the bip32 root key?
Post by: Rickorick on November 03, 2018, 11:28:46 AM
What exactly are you trying to find with the root key?


Title: Re: how i find from my bitcoin address the bip32 root key?
Post by: Abdussamad on November 03, 2018, 04:02:10 PM
what software did you use to create your wallet?


Title: Re: how i find from my bitcoin address the bip32 root key?
Post by: tarball on November 03, 2018, 10:03:30 PM
Based on my understanding of what you have said, you cannot go from an address to a 'root key,' or master private key, only the other way around.


Title: Re: how i find from my bitcoin address the bip32 root key?
Post by: bob123 on November 04, 2018, 08:18:09 AM
You might want to start off with explaining what you want to achieve (or what happened).

If you only have the address, you can't get any sensitive information (private key, bip32 seed, xpub, etc.. ) out of it.

The only way to get the bip32 root key (master private key; xpriv) is to have the master public key (xpub) and one child private key.
With this information, you will be able to calculate the xpriv.

Besides that, there is no option.


What happened ? Did you somehow lose it ? Why do you have access to ONLY the address ?