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1701  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Price at time of transaction? on: August 08, 2022, 04:03:27 AM
Yes, Many block explorers offer that. For Blockchain.com, lookup for your TXID and then scroll down in the details until you find "Value when transacted".
The problem with blockchain(dot)com is the fiat "value when transacted" is only for the whole transaction so if it has a change, it's included to the value as well.
1702  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Is the Coinbase wallet safe? on: August 07, 2022, 05:54:21 AM
For anyone who are planning to post to this thread: OP is now Autobanned for plagiarism so further replies are unnecessary.
1703  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum problem on: August 07, 2022, 04:15:39 AM
I am a verry big noob when it comes to bitcoin.
With all your misunderstandings in everyone's reply, I think this quote is the main issue here.

The first thing you need to learn is: "Bitcoin doesn't work like a bank"
Addresses aren't issued by a main server, it's created by your wallet based from your private keys from your seed phrase.
If you just imported an address and not generate it from a private key or seed, you'll end up with a read-only (watching-only) wallet.
Without the private key of an address, a person cannot spend from that address. (it's labeled "watching-only" for a literal reason)

Your wallet is not like a bank account either, that's only a storage for your private keys/addresses and the necessary features to spend and/or receive bitcoins.
There's no copy of it in any server, it's solely stored in your PC or Phone.
So, the developers don't have access to "your wallet", that means that they can't do anything if you ever lost your funds while using the wallet.
1704  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum 4.3.0 Relased on: August 06, 2022, 05:38:19 AM
So no Taproot address support yet? Where is that in their release timetable? It shouldn't be too hard to implement since they can just adapt similar code from Bitcoin Core.
It's currently in the "backlog Milestone" so there's no definite release date: github.com/spesmilo/electrum/milestone/12
Also, ecdsa seems to be annoyed by users asking for Taproot support :/ (reference post)
1705  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: [GUIDE] How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum [Guide] on: August 06, 2022, 05:02:26 AM
Just want to to verify  Cheesy
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If so, then what happened to Stephan Oeste? Because the last time I updated Electrum, I have 3 valid signatures upon verifiying. Thank you!!
Yep, the signature file for v4.3.0 only contains two signatures:


Emzy's public key is still in Electrum's Repo: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/master/pubkeys; His Github profile is also active: https://github.com/Emzy
It's just the signature file in the website doesn't include his signature but you can still download it from here: github.com/spesmilo/electrum-signatures/tree/master/4.3.0
1706  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum 4.3.0 Relased on: August 06, 2022, 04:42:11 AM
Although i just heard this new hardware wallet, it looks like neat but like a bulk remote to me. Lol
Judging from the size of the USB-C port at the bottom side of the HW as well as the 'dimensions' indicated in the "Technical Specifications", the form factor is small.
It looks bulky in the pictures since it's scaled with your monitor and it's hard to judge the size of a picture of an object without a reference.
1707  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: From hot to cold storage on: August 05, 2022, 12:34:18 PM
Is it enough if I delete my electrum wallet on my macbook ?
It's not enough since the seed phrase or private keys have been stored in an online machine.

To create a genuine Cold-storage set-up.
Every 'private' data must be set-up in an "air gap" machine, that include the seed/key creation and offline wallet set-up.
1708  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: another way to generate bitcoin addresses on: August 05, 2022, 12:21:01 PM
I'm just trying to find a faster way to generate only addresses with some characters but avoiding vanitygen and modifying the base58 for the address while keeping the base58 for the private key
It wont work.
By forcing to encode the PubKeyHash with "base58check (-z)" encoding, it will produce a non-standard address.
It will produce an address with the correct code, yes; but the standard clients that use base58 simply wont be able to decode your addresses correctly.
1709  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum problem on: August 05, 2022, 10:59:06 AM
Id did receive the seed an saved them, but when loaded its doesnt load my bct
So i bouht some bitcoin, an startet a wallen named wallet_1.
"wallet_1" is the default wallet name of the second wallet that you've created, perhaps that seed phrase is only for the first wallet "default_wallet".
The question is, where did "wallet_1" came from?

Then i noticed the wallet was read-only for some kind of reason so accidentally  deleted the adress....
An address can't be deleted even from an imported wallet.
And the only reason that a wallet is labeled "watching-only" is if it's created by importing address(es) or 'master public key'.
1710  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to delete account? on: August 05, 2022, 03:38:43 AM
Can you show me how to delete my account?
If your main account is a newbie, you can try to ask a moderator to "nuke" it.
That will wipe all of that account's posts and ban it.

But it's not possible if it's a Jr member or above, only the admin can do that.

Here's how to find moderators or the Admin: /index.php?topic=703657.0
1711  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How many confirmations required for btc received to be safe from double spend? on: August 04, 2022, 05:10:28 AM
i then traded with someone else, the same my bank funds for their btc... it took more than an hour for the first confirmation.  Why is that the case?  Was it because of the different fee they paid? 
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However, when i checked mempool both times when they sent, the low and medium priority was one sat kb only?  The high priority was either one sat kb or 5 sat kb with the first trader, but the second trader i did with the other person was 5kb for high priority.  Anyone can explain?
If it's not the transaction fee, it's the block time.
The 10 minutes block time is just an average, it can go up to hours or down to seconds depending on the miners' luck.
Moreover, it can also be affected by miners shutting down/powering up their farms causing a drastic changes in difficulty in the next retarget.
1712  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How many confirmations required for btc received to be safe from double spend? on: August 03, 2022, 07:23:57 AM
i mean to double spend... so how many ways are there besides the 5 percent attack?
"Double-spend" is loose term, I think you mean reverting an already confirmed transaction and replacing it with another, based form the thread's topic.
Honestly, IDK if there are other ways to do that aside from the mentioned attack, others might know.

Quote from: jerry0
So it cost around 5k usd to do it?  So basically nobody would try to double spend and thus try to scam someone for like 1k right because they lose money that way?
Uhm, that's per unit.
You need about 1million units to reasonably do the attack.

51% attack was already discussed multiple times and received great replies in the board that I've mentioned.
I'd suggest you to follow my instructions above to be able to see those topics.
1713  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How many confirmations required for btc received to be safe from double spend? on: August 03, 2022, 05:24:49 AM
but does it cost money for someone to try to double spend?  
such as if it does, how much... because that would mean its only worth it for that person if its a big amount?
Do you mean 51% attack?
Basically, you need to have 51% of the network's hashrate or more to have a reasonable chance of success.

Currently, the network's total hashrate is (getmininginfo):
Code:
"networkhashps": 2.042568890164017e+20,
Which is roughly 204.257 Ehash/s, half of that is 102.129 Ehash/s
Which is equal to 928,440 units of Antminer S19 Pro (110TH/s advertised hashrate | $4~5k average price)

With that, I think you can get the picture of the cost; not to mention, the availability of the required mining equipment.

For more info, I'd suggest you to go to this board: Development & Technical Discussion
The use the search box at the upper-right side of the page to search for "51% attack".
1714  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Recover btc old pc - Unistalled Client back in 2010 on: August 03, 2022, 05:02:10 AM
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Thank you, python works following your steps and the pywallet.py runs too. I have last 2 questions about the script. This is what I did so far:
Is it working properly?
Yes, it's working.
The "help" result is displayed since you don't added any command-line options.

Quote from: rosnick92
Code:
python pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=D: --recov_size=50Gio --recov_outputdir=C:\pywallet_recov_dir
I copy paste this whole line after changing the info with mines or do i need first to run --recover then --recover device=D etc?

Code:
--recover size=50Gio
This is the size of the D device? So in your case it was a 50gb hard drive? The size of the btc hd is 153gb so should I put --recov_size=153Gio ?
Those command-line options  should be supplied together or pywallet.py --recover wont proceed (it will tell you what parameter is missing).
And yes, the "recov_size" is the size that you want pywallet to check, it can be lower than the disk's size but checking the disk's full size is recommended.
For the "recov_device" letter, it should be the same as the (clone) Disk's drive letter as seen in your File Explorer or Disk Management.
"recov_outputdir" is where the recovered_wallet.dat will be saved.

After successfully entering a proper command, it will ask you to provide password for the wallet.dat that it will create where the recovered keys will be saved.
Then a bunch of possible passwords of the deleted keys or wallets (one line [password->enter] per password, leave the last one blank [just press enter] to begin the search).
note: characters wont be displayed while you're typing the passwords.
1715  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Wallet which crashes Bitcoin Core 23.0 without any info on: August 02, 2022, 10:41:17 AM
I suspect it can be forged wallet, as any wallet cannot have rescan at block 0. Minimal chance for any wallet.
-snip-
You're probably right (given your post history).

After loading the wallet, instead of getting: Wallet File Version = n
and Keys: n plaintext, n encrypted, n w/ metadata, n total. Unknown wallet records: n

Those are replaced by:
Quote from: pbies
Code:
2022-08-02T08:07:19Z [129 88k crsh] CDataStream::read(): end of data: iostream error
2022-08-02T08:07:19Z [129 88k crsh] CDataStream::read(): end of data: iostream error
1716  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Wallet which crashes Bitcoin Core 23.0 without any info on: August 02, 2022, 07:15:05 AM
Try to launch Bitcoin Core with -debug=walletdb command-line option to output wallet database-related info or -debug=1 to enable all categories.
Then re-check the logs if you can find an error related to the crash.
1717  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin synched with network shows balance but I can't send anything. on: August 02, 2022, 03:47:41 AM
Will try to run with this command.
You can use -recan in the console as well if you do not know how to launch it with addition command line option.
Just open the console "Window->Console" and type: rescanblockchain to scan from the genesis block up to the tip.

I'm using full version.
BTW, the latest version of Bitcoin Core is set to prune the blockchain by default. If you haven't unchecked it in the initial setup, your node's blockchain is pruned.
You can see it in the settings: "Settings->Options...->Prune block storage to"
1718  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin synched with network shows balance but I can't send anything. on: August 01, 2022, 02:19:34 PM
I'v checked first transaction and it's registered in blockchain.

This wallet is from 2014 if this changes anything.
Blockchair (the one LoyceV suggested) is a multi-coin blockexplorer.

That said, which blockchain does your transaction belongs to?
It's indicated at the upper-left hand side of the page, just below blockchair's logo; if it's in Bitcoin's blockchain, it should say "Bitcoin transaction".
1719  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Lost seed recovered BTC stolen on: August 01, 2022, 02:09:25 PM
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But in case electrum confirms to you that your wallet was indeed hacked, then there is nothing you can do as Bitcoin wallets are also susceptible to hacking. You might only want to try compensation from electrum if indeed is not your fault. They might also try on their path to trace the transaction, unfortunately, hackers are smarter these days.
Electrum isn't a company, it an open-source client which is being developed by volunteer developers.
For reference, here's their license: github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/LICENCE
In other words, they aren't liable to any lost funds caused by either a bug or a vulnerability in the client.

Electrum isn't a custodial wallet either so there's no way to verify the cause of lost of funds but the user himself.
The users' seed phrase, password, passphrase, etc. aren't stored in any server; the public "servers" are just there to provide Electrum clients data from the blockchain.
Those servers aren't owned by Electrum either, those are by users who have a public Electrum Server.
1720  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How many confirmations required for btc received to be safe from double spend? on: August 01, 2022, 07:22:05 AM
How many cases has there been where just one confirmation was able to get reversed?
[1] I can't find any archive or list with that statistic based from 51% attack since AFAIK there's never any successful 51% attack to the Bitcoin network (CMIIAW).
[2] I can't find any archive or list with that statistic based from orphan blocks either since not every Bitcoin node will receive an orphaned block.
[3] There was an incident when bitcoin had to revert back the blockchain due to a serious bug,
during that time, confirmed transactions after the "bad block" had reverted back to unconfirmed. (more info: Value overflow incident)

Additional info for [2] "orphaned block":
We can assume that if a node accepted an (to-be-)orphaned block and if a transaction is included there but not in the main chain
that particular txn can reverse from '1confirmation' into 'unconfirmed' after that node dropped the orphaned block and accepted the valid block.
But since every node isn't the same (location, internet speed, etc.), it only got 1 confirmation in some nodes (minority of the nodes that received the orphaned block)
and not the majority of the network where it's not confirmed.
If the orphaned block and the valid block both contain that transaction, then the transaction will not reverse even after dropping the orphaned block since it's in the valid block too.
So it's a case-to-case basis.

Plus orphaned blocks are uncommon now.
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