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1601  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Is bitwemix real on: September 12, 2022, 05:39:38 AM
It has an entry on Scamadviser: scamadviser.com/check-website/bitwemix.com
Read the user reviews, one of them reported that he can't withdraw his funds without depositing some amount for "insurance" and "premium" (classic scam)
If it's asking you to deposit, just don't; legit exchange wont ask for more funds or expenses just to withdraw.

Also reported as "phishing" on by Kapersky AV via VirusTotal: virustotal - results

BTW, this should be in Service Discussion.
1602  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it on: September 11, 2022, 12:55:47 PM
Is this make any sense to predict next Puzzle ?
If that's a pattern, P63's last 8bits should also be twice of the first few bytes of P64... and P62's to P63's.. and so on.
But don't take my word on it since I haven't checked all of the puzzle's private keys, just the last few  ;D

Check them all and see if there's a matching pattern.
1603  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: ethminer refuses to mine ETH with "out of memory on CUDA device" error on: September 11, 2022, 12:36:18 PM
So a few days back I got a notification from the mining pool that it hasn't received any good hashes. I checked my mining rig, rebooted it, and it was showing the following errors upon the start of the ethminer:
Code:
ethminer 0.19.0-alpha.0
...
cu 06:27:11 cuda-1   Unexpected error CUDA error in func dev::eth::CUDAMiner::initEpoch_internal at line 123 out of memory on CUDA device 03:00.0

Any idea what is going on there?
That's quite an old miner, AFAIK ethminer 0.19.0 is from 2019.
That said, most of these Ethereum miners can only work up to a certain epoch, there's a high chance that that specific version can only work up to the 515th.

For example (can be related), the old Claymore ETH miner has this in the official thread:
NOTE: please upgrade to v15.0 as soon as possible, old versions support up to #299 epoch only, they will fail then!
v15.0 supports up to #384 epoch (4GB DAG size).

That said, you may need to switch to an updated miner.
1604  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Corrupt wallet.dat recovery options on: September 11, 2022, 03:00:24 AM
I tried to open this file with Bitcoin core before using pywallet and got a similar "data is not in recognized format" error.

It might be worth mentioning I recovered the file using EaseUS data recovery wizard some time ago.
Salvage will likely return with the same error message since the wallet file's header may be corrupted.

Anyways, to correctly use the command, you should use these commands with your Command Prompt or Powershell (prepend with ./ for powershell),
Change directory to bitcoin/daemon (change the dir if Bitcoin Core is installed to another dir):
Code:
cd C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon
Provide the path to the wallet.dat file and the salvage command (without the "-"):
Code:
bitcoin-wallet --wallet="C:\Python27\wallet.dat" salvage


Since you already set-up pywallet, using -recover is worth the try.
It should be able to find if there are recoverable keys from your wallet.dat file.
Follow this guide for the commands:
Here's an example command for recover (tested with python v2.7.17 and latest version of pywallet):
Code:
python pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=D: --recov_size=50Gio --recov_outputdir=C:\pywallet_recov_dir
Then you'll be prompted for the to-be-created wallet's passphrase (where the keys will be imported) and the deleted wallets'/keys' possible passphrases.
(characters wont display as you type the passphrases)

The result will be a wallet.dat named "recovered_wallet_<number>.dat" that you can load to Bitcoin Core.

In your case, just move the corrupted wallet.dat to the root of your other drive, then use its drive letter as the --recov_device,
then fill out the --recov_size which is the drive's size and --recov_outputdir where you want to put the recovered wallet.
1605  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Error continuous "peer.dat" on: September 10, 2022, 02:03:02 PM
The next day the "peers.dat" file error reappears.

And always the same.

Any idea to solve the error?
It can also be an issue with your Bitcoin Core's "address manager".

Try to add addrman to the debug log by starting Bitcoin Core with -debug=addrman command line argument.
And see if it outputs a related error.
1606  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Is it possible to know if two+ btc addresses belong to the same wallet? on: September 10, 2022, 07:14:04 AM
-snip- couldn't that public key be used to generate addresses? Or maybe this public key is different from what they called the "Master key'?
It's different from a wallet's "master public key" (xpub).
The exposed public key from a transaction input is just a child of the xpub key (if it's from an HD wallet)
A child key can't be used to retrieve its parent key, because deriving the child from the parent involves a cryptographic hash function which is irreversible.
1607  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it on: September 10, 2022, 06:46:07 AM
Quote
-snip-
PrivKey Hex: 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000F7051F27B09112D4
Can anyone explain to a newbie why the PrivKey HEX is such a small portion with 48 leading zeros? What does that mean in detail, why such a short privKey at all and why starting with F ?
It's has many zeroes because the creator of the puzzle deliberately selected private keys of small range so that users can have a chance to solve most of the outputs through brute-force.
Even if it's just small portion, it's still a valid private key and within the valid range which is:
from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
to     FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364141

I don't get the motive of asking why it starts with "F";
but anyways, since it's in Hexadecimal, it could start with any characters from 0~9,A~F. It just happened to be the one picked or randomly selected the the creator of the puzzle.
1608  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: BitCrack - A tool for brute-forcing private keys on: September 09, 2022, 05:30:41 AM
Edit:

After some more testing I found that it does random search after all not linear.
I've tested it an it seem to work as advertised, at least in CPU mode.

My test includes searching for a prefix similar to the puzzle transaction's 2nd address: 1CUNEB from full prvKey range.

The result is: it's consistently finding the key 0x03 in mere split second since it searched from 01 onward, not random.
If it is random, it could take a while to find another key for an address starting with 1CUNEB since it could gone for the the middle or end part of the search space.
But since it's consistently finding 1CUNEBjYrCn2y1SdiUMohaKUi4wpP326Lb, I'd say that it's linear.

Also tried 19EEC5 multiple times and it's also consistent at finding 19EEC52krRUK1RkUAEZmQdjTyHT7Gp1TYT (prvKey 0x47B069).

Lastly, I tried specifying the range and it properly used the indicated --keyspace.
Test command used:
./vanbitcrackens1.1 -t 3 --keyspace 1300000000000000:13FFFFFFFFFFFFFF -o 1vanbitcreacken-output.txt -stop 1AVJKw
Result: Found 1AVJKwzs9AskraJLGHAZPiaZcrpDr1U6AB which is within that range.
1609  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Call and sync your Bitcoin Core wallet on: September 09, 2022, 04:34:44 AM
Found this library of documents.  https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_(JSON-RPC).  Is it enough that I choose the appropriate language and put it in the application?  Or are there other steps?
-snip- Do I add a summons in the application or what should I do?
Basically, running Bitcoin Core through the app is the issue?
If so, you should find a way to start "bitcoind" which is in the "daemon" folder where bitcoin-qt is located.
Then you can now use RPC.
1610  Bitcoin / Mycelium / Re: Peer to Peer Buying and selling of Bitcoin On MyCelium Wallet on: September 08, 2022, 01:47:20 PM
Based from the link in the post above:
How is the transaction confidence calculated?

The Local Trader backend does an advanced analysis of the state of the transaction on the Bitcoin network. The base confidence is determined by the percent of the Bitcoin network that has seen the transaction. A number of factors reduce the confidence:

The Local Trader server does real-time double-spend analysis of all unconfirmed transactions. If a double-spend is detected, the confidence is reduced to zero.
The Local Trader server monitors how many unconfirmed transactions the transaction depends on. This can be a long and/or wide chain. For every unconfirmed dependency, the confidence is halved.
The Local Trader server monitors whether one of the unconfirmed dependencies have been subject to a malleability attack. If transaction malleability is detected, the confidence is halved.
The Local Trader server monitors whether the transaction, or one of its unconfirmed dependencies, have paid a low mining fee. If yes, the confidence is halved.
Looks like they forgot to monitor if the transaction and its parents are RBF flagged.
Because that's one of the major factor to consider to be able to tell if the seller has a capability to easily double-spend the transaction.

@Fivestar4everMVP you can take that in consideration when deciding if the transaction is "good".
In blockexplorers, it's usually displayed as "replaceable", "rbf enabled" or similar.
1611  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin RPC loadwallet Error - Wallet file verification failed on: September 08, 2022, 07:14:28 AM
Maybe nc50lc's answer makes it clearer?
Sorry, same error.

I try with all kinds of link structures / I get an error whether I put it or not. I tried all link structures.
Have you copied it to the correct directory that I've pointed-out in my reply?
Namely: .bitcoin/wallets ; either paste 'backup.dat' inside or create a 'backup' folder there, paste 'backup.dat' file inside it and rename it into 'wallet.dat'.

Because if you did, there shouldn't be any error when you used the said commands.
1612  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin RPC loadwallet Error - Wallet file verification failed on: September 07, 2022, 01:22:37 PM
how can i bypass this error
Either put 'backup.dat' inside .bitcoin/wallets dir or
Create a 'backup' folder inside .bitcoin/wallets dir, paste your 'backup.dat' file there and rename it into 'wallet.dat'.

Then load it using loadwallet backup.dat for the former or loadwallet backup for the latter.
1613  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Trezor Suite will add a CoinJoin mixing protocol on: September 07, 2022, 09:18:49 AM
But won't this lead to pressure from the authorities on the Trezor team, as it was with Tornado Cash?
Probably not since they're with Wasabi, they might impose the same regulation that censors some UTXO.

For more info about that topic, refer to these threads:
1614  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Who controls bitcoin? on: September 07, 2022, 06:39:17 AM
So, my question is simple: who is behind this account? Is it an individual or organization account? If it is an organization, who the organization owners are?
This thread is going to be political later on so I'll just leave this link here to answer that specific question.
These are the people behind "bitcoin" organization account in GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/bitcoin/people
1615  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: best way to keep cold storage wallet, but connect it to internet rarely to send. on: September 06, 2022, 04:52:11 AM
I'm a little confused here.

With those multiple addresses that you use to spend bitcoin. Would any of those allow you to spend all of your bitcoin in that wallet?
In Bitcoin, the data that can spend your coins isn't the address but its "private key" which usually in the care of the user.

An Exchange and Electrum work differently.
In Exchanges, the private keys of the users addresses are in the Exchange's custody.
In Electrum, the private keys are stored locally in the wallet so the data that you need to spend is exclusively in that wallet even if it's offline.
By creating a watching-only Electrum wallet, you're basically only copying the addresses to the online PC; it can't spend, only "watch".

Take note that the above is an oversimplification for you to understand,
technically, there's a "master key" stored in each of those wallets which can reproduce all of those two wallet's addresses.
A "master private key" in the cold-storage and "master public key" in the watching-only wallet.

Quote from: edward500
The thing here is that I need to verify that my wallet works, and I can send bitcoin out of it in a test before I put my bitcoin into it.
Send a few satoshi to the watching-only wallet and successfully spend it by following the tutorial in the first reply, that's the assurance that you need.
If you want, you can click 'save' right after signing the transaction in the cold-storage to update the displayed balance but that wont improve anything.
1616  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: I can't find my old bitcoin files on: September 05, 2022, 04:16:12 AM
-snip-
Can pywallet find files with a changed name? Or maybe the wallet.dat file has been overwritten ?
should i use a different python script ? or code?
Last time I tried, it can recover private keys from a deleted wallet.dat file, it can recover the keys regardless of the wallet.dat's name.
but in my recent tests (just yesterday after my previous post) it failed to do so; IDK, maybe because the wallet.dat was just saved in my test drive's cache.

Anyways, you should try another tool, specially the one suggested by others above.
1617  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: I can't find my old bitcoin files on: September 04, 2022, 01:13:54 PM
-snip-
and before the scan starts ''pycrypto or lib ssl not found' I get an error. and no results are found '0'  

I do not know what to do.
I cannot find any reference on the code pointing to that specific error aside from the full message in my previous post which is benign.

Did it asked for the to-be-created "recovered-walelt.dat"?
Did it asked for possible passphrases after that?
if so, pywallet did its job and didn't found anything from the --recov_device.

For reference, it'll output something like this if it found nothing:
Code:
0.00 Go read
...
n.nn Go read

Read n Go in n minutes

Found 0 possible wallets
Found 0 possible encrypted keys
Found 0 possible unencrypted keys
..

Otherwise, it'll output something like this is it found possible wallets and/or keys but with '0' result:
Code:
...
Found n possible wallets
Found n possible encrypted keys
Found n possible unencrypted keys

...recovered_wallet_nnnnnnnnnn.dat contains the 0 recovered key

Does it look like the former?
or the latter where it shows possible wallets/keys but output's nothing to the recovered wallet.dat?

Because for the former, it means that there's no wallet.dat found in the disk.
For the latter, it's either the passphrase is incorrect or you've provided a passphrase for unencrypted keys.
1618  Bitcoin / Armory / Re: I cant put my wallets online? on: September 04, 2022, 12:42:28 PM
Do you have Bitcoin Core installed?
Because it's required by Armory.

If so, is it fully synced and not set to prune the blockchain?
Because the full blockchain is required by Armory to build its database. And also, Bitcoin Core's latest version has prune settings enabled by default.

For better solutions, it's best if you can provide the full/related logs from 'armorylog.txt' in Armory's data directory.
1619  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: I can't find my old bitcoin files on: September 04, 2022, 12:30:27 PM
I used jackjack/pywallet  scanned the hard drive but found nothing. I used this code :
-snip-
Gives a fault : ''pycrypto or lib ssl not found''

where is the problem??
The complete message should be "WARNING:root:pycrypto or libssl not found, decryption may be slow".
It should still work but slower, did it end with another error?

But I see that you're recovering from C: drive which is the system drive and also set a folder in that drive as the output folder of pywallet.
That not recommended since the data that you want to recover may get overwritten by pywallet's output itself or your OS's page files, not to mention the files that you've downloaded/written to the disk.
1620  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Can someone explain PGP to me? on: September 03, 2022, 05:00:22 AM
For me it is, because the support team for the freebitco faucet uses bitcoin signed messages as the last last last resort in order to recover a lost account.
There's a quite old but extensive tutorial about signing messages, here: How to sign a message?!
If your wallet isn't covered by the guide, try to find a button/menu that resembles the "sign message" features shown in the tutorial. Most non-custodial wallets have it.
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