If you look more careful, it's not developed by Ledger, instead it's done by a random no-name developer.
Also if you look careful, it's categorized as fun/game, and the description is about some game where you do fishing.
So if you are just a little careful, it's clear that's not the extension you would need.

On the other hand, if it's asking for the seed words.. it must be reported.

As Dave said, if he has bad intentions, he may merit (sooner or later) another of his alts and, if done after months, such a move would go under the radar. That could potentially be bad. But not many have the patience to go that slow that far, so I don't know...

Since you don't offer any open source code to be ran locally, I can easily expect that you have also implemented the part where you cash in the money from the found private key (what would stop you?)
Apart of that, we do know that "finding keys" is 99.999.......999999% of the cases wasted time and resources, plus, if one finds by chance a private key and cashes in, that's... stealing.

10 - NeuroticFish

Thank you!

The news came out yesterday. Was it the news on Genesis, or it was the news about more targeted regulations to come in US, I don't know, but the price has got a correction.
Should we sell and buy back? I am against such moves because they're overly risky. You simply don't know how low the price goes, you don't know when the price jumps back and how fast.

I didn't do research on account's background and possible links, but I had the impression the owner knows the drill and he's fishing for merits.
That's why I've decided that unlike most of the free raffles I see or participate, where I give merits to the OP because of his gesture, here I didn't; I'll wait and see how everything develops and then decide if merit is in order or not.

As Loyce said, we've seen all kinds of newbies and all kinds of raffles. It's too early to make too big of a deal of all this; we'll see in less than a week.
As long as people are careful and don't just throw merits, nothing is lost.

I think that the easiest may to:

1. Make a copy of the old Electrum Folder
2. Overwrite electrum-[version number]-portable.exe with the newer one.
3. Run the new exe.

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I want to warn you that if you don't know yet where your wallet file (default_wallet or whatever) is, I wonder what you've backed up for safety. I surely hope you did backup the actual wallet file and not a link or the exe...

Impressive. Thanks for that!


You have to find a newer Electrum that is not so keen to sync and can run as it is.
Look at my other post and try with 1.8, 1.9, .. maybe you get lucky.

I find it interesting that your post comes right after there was a 1000$ drop in the price. Half of that seems to be recovered, still...
What's going to happen next is hard to tell. Clearly after big pumps some cooldown (even slight drop) periods can easily follow. Even more, we're basically still in the price range of the bear market, hence it's not that clear it's over yet. On the other hand there are voices calling that 25k is at hand and the first cooldown will be only afterwards.
So, as I said: hard to tell.

After making some safety backups/copies of the wallet file (since it may get updated/modified) maybe you try your luck with newer versions, one step at a time, until you get , with some luck, to one that allows you do more with your seed of private keys.
The download page from Electrum.org has a "previous releases" link containing versions from 1.8 onwards.


Plus, I've also read that Electrum has change it seed types from 2.0 onwards, hence I guess that you'll need to recover private keys, not seed.

What happens if you close the error message? Does Electrum stops / shuts down?!

Also, did you try to also turn off the internet before starting that old Electrum? Does that error message still pops up?

Since it's not done with sensitive data, you can really just google it and see what comes out.
I don't know how good it is, but I've found now https://reinproject.org/bitcoin-signature-tool which, in theory, can sign, verify and also has git source too.


Well, when you send a transaction, you sign it first, don't you? While the wallet hides these operations from you it doesn't mean they are not done at your side.
Plus, I am 99% sure it's the same process of signing and verifying in both cases.
The process is described here too, but I didn't read it closely yet (I'm still scared of that elliptic curve).

From what I know that old versions of Electrum are not handled by the servers.
I am not familiar with how Electrum 1.7 was, but, based on the UI of current Electrum maybe you can try some things:

* one direction could be to check if you have the seed symbol on bottom-right, or in menus (wallet->seed maybe?) and try to recover the seed, which then you enter in a new Electrum (which you should verify before you use, for your own money's safety, see https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-verify-your-electrum-download/)

* another direction could be to enable Addresses tab (view->show addresses) and for each funded address right-click and get the private key. Those private keys then you add into new Electrum (import addresses or private keys, see the info at the next step, ..)

If one of these works and you need more help, ask more precisely.

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I will add that keeping your wallet or seed online can get your coins stolen.
Even doing this kind of operations on a computer connected to the internet is risky.
I advise you get a hardware wallet as soon as you've recovered the 0.6 BTC, then move your coins into hardware wallet's safety.
I also advise you ignore help on private channels (private messages, telegram, whatever) because they can easily lead to you getting scammed.

@jackmurray
I am testing out the API too for the review and I've got a problem.
I've deposited BTC. OK.
I've traded with API for XMR. OK.
I want to withdraw the XMR and the parameters are api_key, asset, amount.
So... where I put my address where I want the XMR withdrawn to? Shouldn't also be a parameter for that? Is it a bug or I'm missing something?

Atitudinea este "ca la noi": clientul nostru, fraierul nostru. Nimic nou sub soare, din pacate...
Imi amintesc ca, dupa ce am vizitat cateva tari din vest, am decis sa merg si intr-una ex-comunista. Si, pe vremea aia (acum mai bine de 15 ani), concluzia fusese "frumos, dar vanzatorii, ospatarii samd tot incruntati sunt, ca la noi". Probabil ca mai trebuie sa treaca 100 de ani... 

In rest, "secretoseniile" sunt tot romanisme, ca sa aiba spatele acoperit si daca trag in piept clientul, si daca trag in piept statul, si, daca se poate, pe ambii.
La partea cu cursul si anonimitatea sunt de acord, in limite de bun simt. Adica la un maxim de 10-11% inca as zice ca hai ca poate merge. Mai sus.. nu, 14% chiar e exagerat.


Interesant. Ma asteptam sa scrie peste tot, intr-un fel sau altul. Doar ca nu aplicat la sange.


 

Salut.
Nu am mai auzit de multisor acest nume, dar da, parerea generala este intr-adevar ca este SCAM.

Din auzite, ca nu mi-am batut capul, mentionez:
* ei zic ca minezi, dar de fapt nu o faci (nu avem nici PoW, nici PoS, nici nimic), deci mai degraba un "faucet", decat altceva, de fapt nici blockchain nu cred ca au
* ai o aplicatie de telefon care cine stie ce date iti monitorizeza
* aplicatia iti afiseaza niste numere (cate monde ai) si preturi, dar nu poti nici sa retragi, nici sa schimbi acea moneda in altceva (deci pretul este burtologie pura)
* ultima data aveau in plan sa faca ei o casa de schimb, dar nu m-ar mira sa ai nevoie si de numarul de la pantof ca sa intri, iar datele tale banuiesc ca vor fi vandute, ca nu vad de unde altundeva sa vina bani daca chiar vei fi vreodata lasat sa vinzi monedele Pi pentru vreo suma relevanta de bani.

Dar, repet, am informatii relativ vechi...

Multumim pentru recenzie. De indata ce sistemul o sa ma lase, te voi recompensa cu merite.
Ratele de schimb sunt, intr-adevar, mai mult decat dezamagitoare. Ma asteptam la mult, dar daca omul plateste mai mult la ATM decat ar da ca taxe... nu vad de ce ar folosi aparatul.

KYC, pe de alta parte nu ma mira deloc. Adica acele chestii trebuie afisate, ca altfel un control ii scoate din functiune direct. Nu sunt convins totusi daca isi bat capul cu mai mult decat afisarea regulilor, dar banuiesc ca cineva chiar trebuie sa faca tranzactii pentru a afla asta, iar la asemea curs... nu are sens.

I think that you better skip the idea of the brain wallet. They were proven insecure for years.

Why you don't just set up a safe offline OS, maybe without persistence too, and just run from there either Electrum or Sparrow, either run there Ian Coleman's bip39 page?
Then you should have a proper HD seed to work with.

Or, if you want only to give a nice present that maybe won't be used too, you can look for a good old and reputed vanity generator you can maybe use offline (just beware, not all vanity generators are reputable!), getting a nice address like 1NfiSHBCB4qYoQZTzGe3Er5f9gb7X1hVRj, which (together with private key) you can use for some hand-made paper wallet.

In any case, I would not use printer, unless maybe if I install it from start onto that offline OS; the private key or seed should not touch systems that will ever go online.

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Thank you and welcome!

I'm aiming for the Bitcoin Man sticker from Lot 2, it's s-u-p-e-r-b!

03 - NeuroticFish

Thank you!