It almost sounds like you are challenging the Bitcoin community to track you down and find you.

Is that what you are saying?

Tried the xpub again at http://bip32.org/

The sequence generated was:

1Cdx...
1LAf...
1P6t...
1Q4h...
1FRC...
1Gdc...
1EhT...
18De...
122j...

Notice the address we are looking for is not in the sequence (so far).

I have concluded that the xpub you gave me does not generate the address you are looking for.

Are you sure you gave me the correct xpub?  Make sure this is the xpub that generated the address 1Masr1mezkmAqhtWT9RsWzt2e21aYApco in your blockchain.info wallet when you pressed the "New Address" button.

Got the xpub form Andlog972 and tried it in the blockchain.info xpub api:

https://blockchain.info/xpub/xpub6C....

And there are no transactions at all, strange.  I did not see an easy way to get the blockchain API to dump the public Bitcoin address sequence.  Does anyone know a simple API for that?

I also put the xpub into the following wallet:

https://webhdwallet.github.io/

and it got an error message while it was trying to create the public key sequence.  Also the public key sequence generated by the xpub given me did not contain the Bitcoin address we are looking for (but there was the error so the sequence or wallet sequence generation code is suspect).

Does anyone know of another tool I can use to dump the public key sequence from the xpub?

Also Andlog972: 

At this point I think it would be OK and is probably in your best interests to go ahead and publish the xpub here in this thread so more people can try to figure out what went wrong.  At this point I can not figure out what went wrong and we need more help.

OK, so before you pressed the new address button you did not have any addresses in the list then after you pressed the new address button you now have just one address in the list and the address is the address 1Masr1mezkmAqhtWT9RsWzt2e21aYApco.

Did the balance on your wallet change to 5.18950764 BTC?

I am going to assume the answer is NO since you did not say "thanks, everything is OK now".

Obviously your wallet should show the balance since we have proved that 1Masr1mezkmAqhtWT9RsWzt2e21aYApco is in fact the first Bitcoin address in the Bitcoin address sequence for this wallet.

Since this is a brand new wallet, you have never used it for any other transactions, everyone already knows the two transactions we are looking for, I am only asking for the public key from this wallet it is OK in this case for you to send me the xpub key for this wallet.  You can send it to me as a personal message through this forum.  To let you know what I would do with it, I would import it into a wallet as a "watch only" address and see if I can see the balance on a new wallet.  I would not have your private key, I could not get your private key and I would not be able to access or spend your coins.

You should see a link that says "show xPub", click that and cut and past the xpub key into a personal message to me.  Your xpub key is a very long string of numbers that starts with "xPub".

Oh no. This is bad.  Please start a full node and run it.  Everyone, now. Let's get that number up to over 10,000.  Otherwise Bitcoin is doomed.  DOOMED I SAY DOOMED!




I run a full node, and have for years.  Just for fun.  I allow only 8 outgoing and 8 incoming connections and that seems to keep the bandwidth used down to a reasonable level.  Disk space is cheap so that is not an issue at all.

Is this even news at this point?

I was arrested, had my Bitcoins, cash, all my computers, and other property seized, was thrown into solitary confinement and charged with operating a money transmittal business without a license all for simply trading Bitcoins on localbitcoins.com.

I claimed I was an investor trading for my own account, they claimed it was a business.  

In the end, after about $300,000 in legal fees and extortion payments, we agreed to disagree.

You can read all about it here:

http://www.burtw.com

http://www.jmwagner.com

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1182005

(and many other threads here on this forum, just google my name + Bitcoin)

I learned something new today:  the new wallet at blockchain.info is a deterministic wallet!

This is great news.  Just go to https://blockchain.info/wallet/#/signup and create a wallet there.  Be sure to use a strong password that you can remember and go into the security section and set up all the security there including two factor authentication, etc. and you have a safe, convenient, web based, deterministic wallet.

It has a way for you to write down the words that encode your seed so do that and keep your seed word list secure - that is the only backup you will need to backup all your future bitcoin addresses and all your future bitcoin transactions.

Very cool.

Yes, I agree.  This is the best approach but alas it is too simple, there is no real controversy, and you can't get clicks and sell ad space on your blog with the title "Bitcoin:  working just fine, no need to change it"

Except for all the idiots that jump in with their idiot opinions about what they think this thread might be about based solely on the title this has been a pretty interesting thread.

For those too lazy to go back and find out what we are really talking about, here is a summary:


Now my opinion.  Yes I have one too.

Assuming that most of the 21M coins have been mined by the time this happens and assuming there are about 1M highly vulnerable coins in the blockchain then don't worry about it at all.  In other words just let those 1M coins, the most highly vulnerable coins, the easy pickings, be stolen by the people with the QC.  The worst case scenario is that the brilliant people who have access to the most advanced technology are also the stupidest people or are a nefarious actor and they dump the entire 1M coins on the open market.  Two things will happen:

1) The price will go into the toilet for a while, those that don't panic will get to buy up a bunch of cheap coins and make a fortune when the price recovers, those that panic will lose everything.  In other words business as usual in Bitcoin land.

2) We will know this has happened so everyone that has their coins on the remaining vulnerable addresses will immediately move their coins to the new QC safe addresses - problem solved.

This is why I like helping people:  you learn something new when you do.  For example before I got my Trezor hardware deterministic wallet  I used blockchain.info extensively.  I had not bothered to look at their new wallet because I now believe that everyone should use deterministic wallets for many reasons (see my post history on this subject). 

Behold the new blockchain.info wallet is a deterministic wallet!  That is fantastic.  I can now just send noobs to Blockchain.info, have them use the new wallet and wala, they are using a deterministic wallet.  Happy day.


Knowing this let's get on with your problem.  Do the following and carefully answer all of the following questions:

Did you create a brand new wallet for this transaction (pressed Create New Blockchain Wallet) or did you use the same wallet you had used before for this transaction (pressed Login To The New Blockchain Wallet and logged into a wallet you had previously used)?

If you used the same wallet had you used the wallet once before or a few times before?

You said you had bought BTC before, right?  This is not your first purchase, right?

If you bought BTC before did you create a brand new wallet at blockchain.info every time you bought BTC?

You said you are using the New Blockchain Wallet.  That means to get to your wallet now you are going to this page:
https://blockchain.info/wallet/#/
and clicking on "Login To The New Blockchain Wallet".  Is that right?

1) Log in to the wallet

In the upper right hand corner is the balance shown 0 BTC or some other number that is not zero?

2) Click on SETTINGS

3) In the drop down click on Addresses

4) You should see "My Bitcoin Wallet (N BTC) / Default    Show xPub Manage Addresses"  Where N is a number of Bitcoins.

Is that true?  Is that what you see?

Is the value N equal to zero or is it another number?

5) Click on "Manage Addresses"

Are there any addresses showing up on the "Manage Addresses" page at all?

If there are addresses how many addresses are shown?

If there are addresses is the address 1Masr1mezkmAqhtWT9RsWzt2e21aYApco showing up in the list?

This is very important.  Read this very carefully, do exactly as I say, and report back exactly what happens: 

If there are no addresses at all OR if there are addresses but the address 1Masr1mezkmAqhtWT9RsWzt2e21aYApco is not in the list then press the New Address button ONE TIME.

Now you should have one address if there were none, or a new address added to the list if there were already addresses there.

Is the address 1Masr1mezkmAqhtWT9RsWzt2e21aYApco now in the list?



Do everything I asked and report back and we will take it from there.

Just post the transaction ID so we can look at it and let you know what happened.

Pretty good scammer as scammer go, 0.06170746 BTC + 1.483391 BTC since 2014-08-16...

https://blockchain.info/address/1FYwDy9VcDYqs3T8JNTMj7mmJFrLjPVjmF

https://blockchain.info/address/1HD2x5dH6SrMnvFRrWsTZ6ZSwtafeNRL26

I will bet that if we cared we could track them down from a mistake somewhere in the 371 transactions since 2014.

Hello JEON,

I am a long time Bitcoiner and a very large trader.  Your post history is stellar so I would be interested in doing a lot of business with you.  Can you tell me a bit more about yourself and your company?  Are you a Bitcoin trader yourself?  Also, do you know this guy who goes by the name of Everan426?

Looking forward to doing a lot of business with you in the near future.

BurtW

Yes, everything checks out with his story in the OP.

First transaction for 5.18940764 BTC on 2016-05-11 22:08:04

https://blockchain.info/tx/730fd112c2cef6f49131f8d6099c0f1166b8ab91a6dc08ad0b10a85a9431b3ec

A second "test" transaction for 0.0001 BTC on 2016-05-12 09:04:56

https://blockchain.info/tx/8cb21526f1882a69a9a181330e4e1154c1f209deac305fa23987b5d29c5bc4fc

Both show up and are present in the address:

https://blockchain.info/address/1Masr1mezkmAqhtWT9RsWzt2e21aYApco

Looks good.

So not showing up in his wallet...

Perhaps the address was archived (as suggested above by vlamer)?  Check your archived addresses and see if it is there.  If so them un-archive the address.

Just a guess.  Something I have done by accident myself.  If not then we may need to dig deeper.

The transaction you listed completed:

https://blockchain.info/tx/730fd112c2cef6f49131f8d6099c0f1166b8ab91a6dc08ad0b10a85a9431b3ec

So, I do not understand your question I guess.

One more question:

Are you really a Hero member (actually been here long enough to be a Hero)?

No, I bought this account so I could spam the forum.

Did you read the thread?

Answer:  Obviously not.

Did you spam your signature campaign?

Answer:  Of course.

Bruno,

What if Gleb Gamow were to retire?

There is another reason you might think about going back to PG:


Notice that PG has been surpassed an he is no longer numero uno!

Side note:  D&T is still in the top 10 even though he has been MIA since April 22, 2015, 11:53:28 AM.  Anyone know what happened?

So basically you can no longer call his daughter a crack whore but everything else is still fair game?

Sounds fair to me.