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Hi ! I need help.

I have error when i do transaction on Electrum wallet

Message

The server returned an error when broadcasting the transaction.
Consider trying to connect to a different server, or updating Electrum.

Script failed an OP_EQUALVERIFY operation

https://imgur.com/a/lPgrMR1


Thanks for your help !

I downloaded a new electrum.

But what can I do to send a transaction without error?

Thanks for your help.

I download electrum on the official website of electrum and it is a standard digital wallet.
Thanks for your help.

Yes I am sure and I did not click on any link. I do not know where the error comes from.
Please help me!

Hmm... so... do you really have a balance of 331831 BTC in your wallet? Something doesn't seem right here. Where did you get this wallet from?

Is this really an Electrum wallet? I see it has a ".dat" extension (or that's just its name) on the wallet file, which would be a Bitcoin Core wallet.

Yes it is the balance of my account electrum and the name is wallet.dat.
If you help me I will give you a lot of Bitcoin as a reward.
I promise you.
I need your help Please.
Thanks!

Are you 100% sure this is an Electrum wallet? If you're not, try downloading Bitcoin Core (https://bitcoin.org/en/download) and using it with it.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10974/import-wallet-dat-into-a-new-bitcoin-qt-client

I also find it hard to believe you have $3,6 billions in BTC, but maybe you're an escobar?

I do not think it works with BITCOIN CORE.

Do you have an address where coins are stored? If so, try exporting the private keys and install a fresh wallet. Import those private key into the new wallet.
Have back up of the wallet file, don't do any silly mistake if you have such numbers of coin in reality.

I tried this method but when I export the private key and import into a new wallet, the wallet is empty. Balance 0
Please i need help.
Thanks!

1. If you search for this address in a block explorer, do you see your balance, or is it empty? Try it: https://live.blockcypher.com/
2. How does your address look like? It starts with a 1, 3 or btc1? And after you import the private key, do they look the same way (starting with 1, 3 or btc1 just like your current wallet) or it's different?
3. Click on Wallet -> Seed, see if your seed is there. If it is, copy it and create a new wallet by restoring it with it. If it's not, try opening your wallet file in a text editor and look for "seed" or "xprv".

how to open the wallet in the text editor?

Simply right click the wallet file, select "Open with" and choose the Notepad or any other text editor.

But please, answer my other questions. Search for the address on the blockexplorer to see if the balance is there and tell me how the addresses look like before (right now on your Electrum) and after the import with the private-key.

first of all to be sure you have the correct Electrum wallet and not a malicious one you must verify its digital signature with the correct public key of the developer. checking your history,... is not a proof!

as for the failure to broadcast that transaction, it is simply because it is an invalid transaction and the server error is pretty clear. it is most probably because the public key provided inside the scriptsig is not the same public key that exists in the scriptpubkey (the hash of it) which is why it fails on OP_EqualVerify step.
try signing the transaction with the correct private key instead!
and if you really did that, then post the raw transaction here and i can tell you exactly what you did wrong.

give me your contact please in PM.

Yes I checked in the Blockchain and it's empty. I opened the file in the text editor but I did not find anything seed or xprv.

If it's empty, then... it's empty. Again, where did you get this wallet from? Is it really yours? Did you create and deposited/mined these coins or something like this? Not many people supposedly have 33k BTC in a wallet. Actually, according to this[1] site, only 106 addresses have 10k+ BTC (most are inactive).

[1] https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

Frankly, I do not know what you ask me. send me your contact in PM and you will explain the procedure.

Thank you for your help.

Of course that the wallet belongs to me and I have all the information of this wallet.

Can you try importing your private key into Coinomi wallet (https://www.coinomi.com/en/downloads/) and update us if it works?

As long as you have private key, you should be able to access your coins anywhere. I suggested Coinomi as I have been using it, you are free to choose other wallet as well.

Also, if you encounter any trouble restoring your wallet in Coinomi, feel free to contact me. I'll help if I can.

Since, you have 0 coin checked by your address, I think you should give up on this. This is likely to be a bug. Can you please tell more information about your bitcoin like earlier asked by TryNinja, that would help you to get confirmed what's going on.

how import private key in Coinomi ?

Just download it for your platform from here (https://www.coinomi.com/en/downloads/) >> install >> restore wallet.

You do have private keys/seed, right? Cause I'm bit confused with previous comments here.

I have all private key. i done to download Coinomi

This is exactly my thoughts about the OP's issues here. I mean you own a lot of BTC and it seems that you don't know how to even import or sweep your privatekey in other wallet software? Something is not right here, just saying.

Apparently, you can't import electrum seed into Coinomi.

Request to op, please try using mycellium wallet, as it supports 12 word seed import.

https://mycelium-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003713712-How-do-I-restore-a-backup-

May be it's true. But back in the days, it was easy to mine and less technical knowledge was required than now. Or may be OP has bought this big amount when the price was low.
However, I too think OP don't have such much amount of BTC, it's a bug possibly.

Interesting case.
331,831.76479402 BTC is at risk?
Must be something is wrong there but whatever the case, I wish there are these many BTC do not get stuck.

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By the way, just looked at OPs post history and some of the posts I thought worth quoting,




1st page archive: http://archive.is/Fk2Ns
2nd page archive: http://archive.is/BkD1p


So, I have my conclusion. I seriously doubt about the issue here. OP is making a platform here to gain something out from it. Not sure what it could be though.

Forget exporting private keys and other stuffs, the (wallet file corruption detected) 1st error's "suggestion" will fix your problem.
Only very OLD versions of Electrum have a ".dat" extension, was that from a very old version?
Otherwise, it isn't an Electrum wallet file.

Try to open another copy of the original electrum/wallet.dat (not the previous one that you've opened) using the lowest version v1.8.1 available here (https://download.electrum.org/).
Then either extract the SEED or export the private keys to be imported to the latest version.

This is a generic error message, you can disregard this one.
..next line

This often pop-up if there's a problem with your transaction's signature or inputs.
Maybe it came from a non-existing address with huge balance that was caused by the "wallet corruption error" that you've seen during startup. (from your screenshots)
Your corrupted wallet might have signed the tx using an invalid private key and/or there's an unspendable input included.

hi ! how are you ? how you can help me for resolve my problem my wallet electrum.

Please i need help.

Thanks !

You PM'ed me that you found your seed and xprv inside the wallet file. Did importing them the way I said work?

I try with the XPRV but it's the same. empty wallet with balance 0.

That's what I'm not understanding.

You said here that the address is empty when you look for it in a block explorer:

So it's understandable that it is also empty when you import it. Open the wallet that shows the 33k BTC balance, then go to View -> Show Addresses -> click on the "Addresses" tab, find the address that has the 33k BTC (or at least most of it) and copy it. Then look for it in a block explorer. If it really is empty, then the 33k BTC is most likely a visual bug or something similar. The block explorers are pretty much always right.

i believe OP may not honest about where he got this wallet and/or transaction.

he says he has created it himself but yet the addresses (outputs) that he is spending in his transaction don't seem to relate to each other really. it seems to me like someone created a transaction spending 13 of random high value transactions outputs worth 2200BTC and signed them with "a random" private keys. which is why each scriptsig in his transaction contains a different signature while having the same unrelated public key and as a result the OP_EQUALVERIFY step fails right in the beginning.

you can not sign transactions through Electrum or any normal wallet like this, because since the outpoints differ, the wallet doesn't just sign all with same key. this transaction is custom made with a code outside of any wallet.

The error message's suggestion? It said: restore from SEED.
Yes it will fix your problem to be able to display your correct balance since the error message (wallet file corruption detected) itself indicates that there's something wrong with your wallet.
It could be something in the history, addresses or private keys.

Plus it seems like you've already kinda done that part:
Means that "0" is the correct balance.

As for trying the file using old versions (because it was named wallet.dat), I've already explained it.
But you got the xprv key, this is now unnecessary.

Figures.

Based from his posting history,
My guess is that wallet is a result of his "quest" on finding someone who can help him "hack a wallet file".
If that's the case, he had been given a tampered wallet file; If not, .....he's trying something foolish that will never work.

There is obviously some sort of shenanigans going on here... Based on the "wallet corruption detected" message, my initial thoughts are that the OP has "bought" a "fake" wallet from someone thinking that they had 331,000+ BTC in it.

I've heard of the "fake" Bitcoin Core wallet.dat's... but never seen/heard of a fake Electrum wallet until now. Although, it probably wouldn't be that difficult to fake given that the non-encrypted wallet files are essentially just JSON text.

I'm also curious as to why the OP has the revealer plugin enabled? Refer to icon here: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/electrum/gui/icons/revealer.png