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1821  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I need Wallet for my Bitcoin Investment on: November 17, 2022, 07:17:51 PM
Btw, trust wallet is also one of the most recognised wallets now that the FTX collapse took place, as it helped CZ to promote that wallet (non-custodial one)
Being one of the most recognized wallet doesn't mean it should be recommended. OP has already installed electrum which is open source and one of the most secure wallets and should avoid any close-source wallet like trustwallet.


The electrum wallet isn't bad, just ensure you're able to keep they keys safely, it's one of the best recommended cold storage
Note that electrum isn't always used for cold storage. Electrum can be a hot wallet too. Being a cold wallet or a hot wallet depends on how you use electrum.
1822  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: weird hex calculation on: November 17, 2022, 07:00:29 PM
You are adding the two decimal numbers together incorrectly.

67890123456789012345 + 35000000000000 = 67890158460000000000
67890123456789012345 plus 35000000000000 doesn't equal 67890158460000000000. It equals 67890158456789012345. That's 3AE2A4B6B41E40F79 in hexadecimal format and has been calculated correctly by the tool you used on Linux.
1823  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Unconfirmed transaction is not even visible on block explorers on: November 17, 2022, 06:13:23 PM
If you generate a new transaction with the same input/output you will get the same txid.
No. This is wrong.
The transaction ID is calculated by hashing the transaction data through SHA256 function twice. So, with any change in the transaction data, you get a new transaction ID. For example, the new transaction can have a different fee or a different locktime and even with the same inputs and same outputs would have a different ID.
1824  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I need Wallet for my Bitcoin Investment on: November 17, 2022, 05:47:01 PM
Though I have opened Electrum but I have not moved the coins to it.
Electrum is secure enough. It's non-custodial and give you full control over your fund. It's also open-source and we can be sure that there's nothing hidden going on behind the scene.
Before sending any fund to your wallet, make sure that you have download electrum from its official website and verify your download. Also, keep you seed phrase offline in a secure place, so you can recover your wallet in the future.
1825  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: unconfirmed transaction....need help on: November 17, 2022, 12:41:32 PM
This time the condition of the mempool does not depend on the weekend, because the problem is that one large CEX is doing some kind of consolidation and is causing this problem.
You are right. But I still expect OP's transaction to be confirmed in the coming weekends. Of course as you truly said, not because the network is usually less congested in the weekends, but because all binance consolidation transaction will be probably confirmed in the next 2 or 3 days and the network state will be normal again.
1826  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: unconfirmed transaction....need help on: November 17, 2022, 10:58:53 AM
I am not sure if it ever gets confirmed.
The mempool is becoming less crowded and as mentioned by NeuroticFish, your transaction will be probably confirmed.
Two days ago, there were around 150 vMB of transactions in the mempool and now the mempool size has decreased to around 60 vMB.
It's very unlikely that your transaction remains unconfirmed and dropped from mempool of nodes.
1827  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: unconfirmed transaction....need help on: November 17, 2022, 08:55:57 AM
Usually the fee is adjusted automatically, depending on the amount of transaction and has always worked.
This is wrong.
The amount of fee required to be paid for a transaction has nothing to do with the amount of bitcoin you send.
The transaction fee depends on number of inputs and outputs, your address(es) type, the network state and how fast you want your transaction to be confirmed.

It's impossible to say when your transaction will be confirmed, but I expect it to be confirmed in the weekends.
1828  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: is it Safe using console to generate seed? on: November 17, 2022, 12:02:31 AM
Isn't that generating a seed on Electrum through commands will work in the offline machine?
Right. You don't need internet connection for that.


Or needs internet because the command will send to servers/any nodes.
Servers have no role in generating the seed phrase.
  

Just want to confirm currently I have a broken PC can't confirm it but if it's allowed to generate seed offline through command then this is the safer one.
Whether you want to generate the seed phrase through GUI or console, you can do that offline and it's not that generating the seed phrase using commands is safer.
1829  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How do i make sure my Bitcoin Private Key is Random and secure? on: November 16, 2022, 10:24:19 PM
One last question. Is it more secure to generate a 24 word seed using dice/coins (manually) OR using CSPRNG present is software like electrum etc ?  Which is more secure?
In both cases the seed phrase is generated completely randomly (assuming your dice is balanced and all the numbers have the same probability to be chosen) and is secure enough.
It may worth mentioning that, if you want 100% security, you should generate your seed phrase on an air-gapped device.
1830  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: What wallet should i choose are my steps correct? on: November 16, 2022, 10:01:52 PM
What i meant is that if we have 24 words private key (seed) it has to read up it from somewhere to give access to our BTC seed ETH seed etc. and the question is where do it get it from?
It's not that there's a centralized server keeping all addresses, private keys and seed phrases.
Your private keys are derived from your seed phrase through some mathematical calculations locally in your device and you sign the transaction using your private key without any need to being online.
1831  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How do i make sure my Bitcoin Private Key is Random and secure? on: November 16, 2022, 09:41:23 PM
Regarding your answer to second question. I was not saying i am using brain wallet. Please read again.
I fully understood you.

I meant i generate a bitcoin private key using secure wallet say for example mycellium wallet which is completely random key BUT the private key that i got now is 100% a SHA256 hash of some random 'text'. so that text might be a 'word' from the dictionary. There's a chance for that. This is what i meant to ask.
There's a chance of that, but that's almost impossible.
If you know that any bitcoin address can be generated by 2^96 private keys on average, you may worry even more. But as I said in my previous post, a bitcoin private key provides enough security and there's nothing to worry about.
1832  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How do i make sure my Bitcoin Private Key is Random and secure? on: November 16, 2022, 07:52:05 PM
1.)I checked the electrum code and it also uses RNG that just picks a random number between 1 and 2^256 so therotically RNG can a pick a 10 digit number too? or am i missing something here?
That's true only in theory. The probability of getting a 10 digit number is almost zero.


2.) Second question i have is. We all know how SHA256 can be used to convert any 'text' to a hash which is a valid private key right a.k.a brain wallets.
It's not recommended to use brain wallets. It's recommended to generate a random private key.


So my question is what if my wallet generate a key which is secure but what if that key is SHA256 hash of some 'poor dictionary word'?
No. There is no risk. What you worry about can happen only in theory. A private key generated properly provides enough security.
1833  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Cloud mining for bitcoin on: November 16, 2022, 06:14:12 PM
There is no bitcoin mining website and all so called cloud mining websites are scam. Such websites usually display a fake number as your balance and once you reach their minimum withdrawal amount, they ask you to deposit some bitcoin to be able to make withdrawal.

Don't waste your time and your money. That's not how bitcoin is mined.
1834  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How do i make sure my Bitcoin Private Key is Random and secure? on: November 16, 2022, 05:57:06 PM
So i know bitcoin private key is secure and there are 2^256 private keys
Number of valid private keys is slightly less than 2256


it's impossible for 2 people to generate the same btc private key.
Not completely impossible. Almost impossible and very very unlikely.


BUT what i think is possible is a bitcoin wallet generating a bitcoin address whose private key is in the range of 1 to say 10000?? then it's vulnerable to attack right?
Yes, that's possible if the wallet hasn't been coded properly and that's why you should use always an open-source wallet to know how the keys are generated.


See basically a private key is an integer between 1 and 2^256 converted to hex right.
That's between 1 and FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364140
1835  Other / Meta / Re: Allow buying pinned posts in marketplace on: November 16, 2022, 01:25:13 PM
Will help forum users get more exposure to their services or products in marketplace.
Since scams are not moderated and some users may wrongly think that services with pinned topics are secure, I don't agree with the idea.


And will also increase the overall revenue of the forum which will help for more efficient management.
The forum doesn't need any money.
Theymos has even disabled advertising banners. See the following post.

Finally, bitcointalk.org has a large reserve of BTC, so we're able to continue operating without ad revenue for many years.


You can buy ads,
That's no longer possible.
1836  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: lowest hashrate that hit a block in the last 3 years on: November 16, 2022, 09:51:40 AM
Since we can only estimate the hash power of some mining pools and there are many unknown miners with unknown hash rate, it's impossible to answer to your question.
It's possible that a solo miner has found a block with a very low hash power, but we can't know how much hash rate is owned by any of individual miners.
1837  Other / Meta / Re: To comment/post removers on: November 16, 2022, 01:22:35 AM
archive.org used to take daily and then weekly snapshots of the forum's pages. Now I think it only does it every few months.
Doesn't archive.org (and other archiving websites) archive a webpage only if someone requests that? As far as I know, they don't take snapshot regularly.
It's possible that a webpage has been archived more than 100 times while another webpage has been never archived.
1838  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Mempool if full, but what does that actually mean? on: November 16, 2022, 12:46:02 AM
Right now we are at  354 MB / 300 MB,
I wonder where you got the 354 MB from. That's wrong.
Currently, there are around 150 MB of transactions waiting for confirmation in the mempool and even a transaction paying only 1 sat/vbyte should be able to enter the mempool of any node.
1839  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: is it Safe using console to generate seed? on: November 15, 2022, 03:09:55 PM
As mentioned by Abdussamad above, it's only the command that is recorded. The output isn't recorded.
You can simply open your wallet file using a text editor application and check what has been recorded. You will see your used commands under "qt-console-history" and you won't see the outputs.
1840  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum 4.3.2 - Two-factor authentication that has never been set up (no seed) on: November 13, 2022, 11:22:02 AM
I open the wallet using the password, I can see everything, everything seems to work, but when I want to send a payment the wallet asks for 2FA. Which really wasn't happening before.
Are you saying that you have made transaction from the same wallet without entering 2FA code before?
As I already said in my previous post, this is impossible. The wallet has been 2FA since the creation date.


Anyway, there is no icon in the wallet to show the seed like I see on someone else's.
That's normal.
If it was possible to export the seed phrase of a 2FA wallet, that would defeat the purpose of 2FA.
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